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Bear with me......Boycotts worked in the American South for the civil rights movement. International boycotts worked in South Africa. We already know, thanks to the "Retro v Metro" state theories, that we, in the blue states, the ones that went for Kerry, are a helluva lot more prosperous in terms of individual income than the red states. (We pour money into the Federal system in taxes, the red states suck it out of the Federal system in payoffs to big business...agribusiness, mining interests, etc. The poor in those states don't see the money...but they're too busy worrying about abortion and gay marriage to notice. ) It is reasonable to assume, then, that we are the most powerful group of consumers in the country. What if, as an organized multitude of consumers, we (for example) stopped subscribing to cable, with a very strongly unified statement that we could NOT buy into cable until our various provider companies forced the cable news networks to provide REAL INFORMATION to us? (The message would have to be very clearly stated, of course.) Corporations, those mechanical psychopaths who only care about the bottom line, are supporting Bush and his buddies. WHAT IF WE MADE IT VERY CLEAR TO THEM THAT IF THEY DON"T CLEAN UP THEIR ACTS WE WILL ORGA NIZE TO HARM THEIR PROFITS? „WHAT IF WE PROVED OUR ECONOMIC POWER BY PUTTING A GREAT BIG NOTICEABLE DENT IN CABLE COMPANY PROFITS, JUST FOR A START? It doesn't have to be cable companies, of course...but I thought maybe denying oneself cable for 4 years might be a highly visible way of making a statement. ANY COMMENTS?
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