Government Motors has powerful allies: The White House, FBI, FCC, NLRB, EPA, IRS, etc., etc.
This is what happens when government seizes corporations. If it will decide to give money to a corporation going bankrupt, to negate legal contracts… to suspend the rule of law, then government owns the result. In the case of GM, literally and morally.
Criticism of such a deal is automatically politicized, and while political speech may be protected under the First Amendment; what is that to the Corporatist Axis? The Axis will suppress free speech in order to protect its political agenda reciprocal “investment.”
Ford should keep on, I’ll even buy one I don’t yet need just to get in Corporatism’s face.