We’re angry and hurting, feeling betrayed and even threatened. We want to resist, fight back, make them feel pain.
And that’s exactly why Russia backed Trump, to convulse the US in internal conflicts. So Russia can be less afraid of us. Don’t take the bait.
Remember that the news amplifies those whose views are so extreme they provoke morbid curiosity. They are the few and the noisy.
Most people are fairly apathetic and easily led. They voted against high prices, not FOR Trumpism.
If a particular person says/does something worthy of being shunned, yes, do so. But most people were only Trump voters or Harris voters for one day. Campaigns “got out the vote” and begged for money, but they made no effort to encourage nuanced critical thinking. I wish there were a super PAC for that, but there isn’t.
Anyway, boycotts are of limited effectiveness when a few billionaires and investment firms own controlling shares of everything, and they use our 401K funds to do it.
Positive actions work better than negative ones. It is much more useful to share info about independent businesses that may cost a bit more but are responsive to their customers, like Penzys. (Which I only know about because people do share stuff like that on CoSo).
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I’ll order elsewhere when I can. Hard to do — many sites just link to their stuff on Amazon
@EileenKCarpenter look for B corps. they are generally owned by the employees. my local B corps include:
King Arthur Flour
Cabot Creamery
Badger Balms
Lake Champlain Chocolates
Stonyfield (despite being bought out by Dannon)
@EileenKCarpenter Boycotts work better when enough people actually do them.
Been trying to scrape people off Amazon for years, to no avail.