It's always funny to me how may of the local small business folks align themselves with what they think are business friendly politicians. Those politicians don't care about them ... they care about big business and big business doesn't care about small / happy to push them out of the way.

That's not really surprising. The size of the audience for the latter >> the size of the audience for the former. Most people aren't going to go out of their way to sit on the phone for hours because a small business in another country is being treated unfairly.

Consumers don't necessarily care about businesses, they care about products. And even then they will feel like bad products getting screwed "deserved it".

But when they value something and it's taken away, yea. Recipe for mass anger.

Well, in this case, what do they value?