Opinions

You are NOT as important as you believe.

The United States of America was established as a Constitutional Republic.  This was an actual form of government that was limited to the exercise of explicitly specified powers.  A Democracy is an unlimited state which claims the authority to act on the popular will.  The murder of Socrates by a majority vote in the city state of Athens is a clear case in point.  Various Communist states that are currently claiming to be Democracies in order to exercise unrestrained power over their subjects.

Commerce has been part of Human life since someone discovered that anyone could trade their better quality stone knives for some decently processed bear skins.  Commerce is one of the things that separate us from the lower animals.  An attack on commerce by the green creeps (or Socialists in general) is an attack on Human life in general.