Boycotts don’t work. Whoever told you that, it probably wasn’t your mother or father. They use boycotts all the time and so do we all. Think not? When you go to buy a pair of shoes and you try on pair X and they’re not comfortable, you buy pair Y. That’s a form of boycott. You’re taking your money and putting it where it will do the most good, into a comfortable pair of shoes.
We boycott products and companies all the time for one reason or another. We buy from companies who manufacture in this country because we’re proud of products made here. We avoid certain products because the companies that manufacture them have policies regarding labor, the environment, politics, social issues etc. that we disagree with.
Boycotts are not bad. They let companies know how we feel. Just think back to the Ford Pinto or the Edsel! We can also let politicians know how we feel by boycotting them come election time. Remember when the Republicans swept into power in ’92? Voters in both parties were so dissatisfied they didn’t care what party they voted for, they just wanted change, any change.
Seventeen years later it’s Deja Vu all over again. This time the Democrats are in power. They rule the roost from top to bottom. The President has put forth spending programs unprecedented in the history of the country and Congress is more than happy to go along with him.
In addition to this nightmare, we have an Attorney General who would be thrilled to re-enact the assault weapons ban and add a myriad of additional restrictions to it. Congress would be overjoyed to go along with this except that midterm elections are coming and they know that this is a poison pill they are not prepared to swallow. So much for standing up for ones beliefs.
So, what’s a freedom loving citizenry to do? Simple, enact a boycott. As your grandfather probably would say, “throw the bums out”. Now that we’re in a more genteel time, we phrase it thusly, boycott these gentlemen and gentlewomen and withhold your support (votes). Choose instead anyone who offers an opposing view point.
Please, don’t be swayed by last minute appeals of “.....if you re-elect me I can get things done next time. I promise it’ll be different”. They lie. They lied to you before and they’re lying to you now.
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People voted for change and they got it. A change from a Constitutional Republic to a Marxist society. A President who violates his oath to protect the Constitution of the United States. 2010 is your chance to stop things before they get completely out of control.
ReplyDeleteI agree about "throw the bums out" however; what are you going to replace them with? If y ou really look, every time you replace a R with a D, you get a more intrusive government (at any level). If you replace a D with an R you also get a more intrusive government. The powers of the government at all levels continue to expand no matter who is in office.
ReplyDeleteYou have to have the guts to vote for someone other than a Democrat or a Republican. Yes, your Independent or Constitution Party, Green, Libertarian or whatever is going to lose but you have to do this anyway. Once the two parties currently in power see people leaving them for some other party, they will have to consider changing their ways. It may take many many election cycles but that is the only way this can be cleared up (in my humble opinion).
How about a viable third party alternative, lets call it the American Party for every American that recognizes that both the Republicans AND the Democrates have all sold their souls to special interests. Why do Americans continue to put the same mugs back in office term after term, decade after decade? Common sense tells me that not all CHANGE is for the good, and that you will never get a different result by voting in the same people.
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