Well, I haven’t followed this story much beyond the initial Sarah debacle. I will say that when I was there in April, I found most of the shops the usual boring “high street” type of shops - kitchenware, boutique clothing, a yarn shop, endless upscale coffee shops selling bad coffee and even worse baked goods, etc. Sort of like the high street here in NJ - dull, stodgy, politically correct signs in the windows and, worst of all, terrible parking and overpriced items.
Pretty town, though.
LOL. I hear you. But towns like this one have to also look at the macro trends. The town that I grew up in has seen its downtown change from something like 40 independent businesses to maybe 2 or 3. The rest are now chain outlets - I call it an “inside out mall”, because it’s the same stores, but without the roof in between them.
Now with Amazon cleaning up, and Walmart just one decent I.T. guy away from figuring out Amazon’s secret (i.e., people want more than just a single crappy picture and a one-sentence description before buying something), the need to leave one’s residence is quickly disappearing...and even inside-out malls have their days numbered.
As to these ‘quaint’ towns, they are the biggest throwback to the past that we have, and if they want to stay in business they will need to offer something more. In this case, sending a message to Red Hen by coming out FORCIBLY against what they did could easily result in the Chick-a-Fil and now In-And-Out results, where we simply overwhelm the Left.
...but ‘playing it safe’ after what happened at Red Hen, sorry store owners, you only have yourselves to blame as your retirements dry up and you live out your elder years in poverty. It is ALWAYS the result when our side decides to ‘play it safe’ against the Left. Always.
“...endless upscale coffee shops selling bad coffee and even worse baked goods..”
That seems to be the norm for liberal Trotskyite coffee shops. Had one like that in town, and the pastry they sold tasted like week old bakery goods they picked out from a Salvation Army dumpster. Damn somnambulant hippies never heard of doughnuts with sugar, fruit or frosting.