Posted on 06/07/2023 5:52:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Recently a number of politically motivated business strategies have prompted boycotts of various stores and products. The two most well-known have been Anheuser-Busch and Target. Some people say that these boycotts won’t last (despite the Anheuser-Busch effort going into its second month, with the company’s stock price falling over 20%), but it is important for them to be effective that they do last.
By sticking with the boycotts, people are once more finding their voices. Mainstream voices have been squelched at the ballot boxes with information damaging to certain candidates being hidden at election time, the expansion of mail-in ballots without sufficient checks for accuracy and legitimacy, and many other dubious practices such as ballot harvesting and mass mailings of absentee ballots to voters whether they are requested or not , and even devious schemes such as the fake Russian collusion issue in 2016. Activist judges have also squelched the voices of the people by creating laws or changing laws contrary to their meaning or implementation, rather than ruling that legislation needs to address the issues under consideration. For example, Californians voted to ban same-sex marriage in its constitution (this ban is still in place), marriage has always been an individual state issue (see dissenting opinion), yet the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriages in 2015.
In the meantime, the LGBTQ+ community (~7% of the population according to Gallup) has been flaunting their degrading and inappropriate behavior in the face of conservatives and people of faith. Recently the LA Dodgers scheduled an event for one of their “Pride Month” celebrations featuring a group called the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” (SPI). This vile and blatantly anti-Catholic (and anti-Christian) group should be classified as a hate group, but instead the Dodgers wanted to celebrate them.
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If push comes to shove, I’m sure the government would bail out Target, Budweiser and any other entity that pushes their diabolical agenda.
It is easy to find another beer.
It is easy to avoid shopping at a store one does not normally patronize.
I still don’t try to watch football.
A boycott is based on an organizational movement, such one lead by an agricultural laborers union.
In the case of football, beer and merchandise, the avoidance is based on individual shunning of obnoxious behavior or products.
Prior to the late 1960s, working class people tended to vote Democrat. For about 55 years, working class people tend to vote Republican.
Prior to the 1930s, blacks tended to vote Republican. Ever since the Great Depression, blacks tend to vote Democratic.
“Activist judges have also squelched the voices of the people by creating laws or changing laws contrary to their meaning or implementation”
Bad judges can not have their compensation reduced, but they could find it clawed back.
“judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior”
If a judge in say Boise tramples on a state’s Amendment X prerogative in 2016 and refuses to void her bad decision, she might be ordered in 2036 to repay 20 years of her pay.
I don’t think there were any organizational boycotts in the cases of Anheuser Busch and Target. A huge number of Customers simply refused to patronize them.
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