Let's all boycott the red corporations, says
some tinfoil cluckhead - in a recommended diary,
no less.
Yes, let's take punitive measures against companies
for their party affiliation.
Why not?
Well, last I heard punitive measures against people (or companies) for supporting the party of choice was kind of unAmerican.
We didn't lose because corporations gave money
to Bush. We raised plenty of money.
We lost because the Republicans are savvy
in publicity and mass communication.
Our TV advertising was amateurish and scattershot.
Working people voted for Bush because we failed
to reach them effectively.
A campaign against companies should be initiated if they are actively doing something bad - not for exercising their right to support their party of choice.
Or if there is evidence that the Republican majority is out to hurt blue companies.
That being said, Fox News has no qualms about pointing out which companies are republican.
They obviously do this to get their viewers to patronize these companies. But of course they don't say that.
There's nothing wrong with letting people know which companies are blue and which are red.
But an all-out boycott should only be for legitimate reasons.
A boycott against Sinclair advertisers because Sinclair lied and played fast and dirty would make sense.
So would boycotting companies that have an enormous stronghold on our media. (GE controls Universal pictures, NBC, MSNBC, USA, & CNBC)
But if we launch a full boycott because of party affiliation, we can count on the Repugs coming back at us tenfold.
I have both republican clients and democrat clients -
and they are all great business people and nice to work with.
So this kind of thing hurts my business relations.
And that really pisses me off.