I acknowledge their bloviating as I would a tough-talking teenager: with a wariness respectful of their capacity for violence, paired with an understanding that

I acknowledge their bloviating as I would a tough-talking teenager: with a wariness respectful of their capacity for violence, paired with an understanding that, 9 times out of 10, they're not going to do jack shit. Probably important to point out here that leftists are looking to see a threat to a corporation's leadership change the behavior of a corporation, whereas right-wingers are looking to see a threat to a government's leadership change everyone's behavior ("overreaching government" in a democracy being the will of voters). They're not the same thing.