I think we're all getting a lesson here on the relationship between political and economic power.

Isn't this what they used to accuse Liberal politicians of doing?
"Do exactly what we want or we'll put you out of business. If we don't get our way we'll use the power of the State to shut your ass down."

"Corporations are people too." Yeah, right. The corporations have created the Conservative movement and put them in power, now their Frankenstein is out of their control and pursuing its own agenda. What we're seeing now is Fascist blackmail of their own capitalist benefactors. It happened in Germany, too...