What company, organization or group would be an effective target of a boycott?

Our only power Democrats have at the time is the number of us. We are the majority in spite of what the 'others' would have us believe.

We must use that power to impact an organization and show how powerful we are through an effective boycott.

Any suggestions, both for a target and how to achieve it?

The face of corporofascist exploitation worldwide.

Wal Mart: A Celebration of Mediocrity!

Boycotting (or simply not shopping and being vocal about it) this unregulated economic behemoth is an excellent choice. People allow themselves to be fooled by 'great prices' and 'everything I need' without realizing the hidden costs:

:-( goods produced through sweatshops (Walmart sells clothes to children, made by children!)

:-( outsourcing (Walmart can't get local suppliers willing to put their names on this garbage!)

:-( bullying legitimate suppliers into bankruptcy (Walmart sets our own low low prices!)

:-( virtually no company record of environmental awareness or attempts at rectification (don't go outside! Watch another movie on your cheap plasma TV!)

:-( rampant, unchecked worker discrimination (Our staff are paid to smile!)

:-( consistent support of fascist conservative dogma

Boycott Walmart. Always.

You might save a few jobs along the way too.

Cause no matter how much you want to claim otherwise, there is nowhere near a majority of people who would engage in such an act. In fact, the reality is that a staggeringly small minority is all you'd get, with numbers so low and efforts so weak that no target you can select would see even the slightest statistically significant blip on the radar.

Why do you think that is? Why do we have the belief that we are powerless? Where do you suppose that came from?

You are affected, obviously, by the assumption we are powerless.

You have been brainwashed to believe that.

WAKE UP!!!

Brainwashed? No. Just the opposite. I live in this neat little place called reality.

You are simply naive in your belief that your passion is or should be emanated by a majority. Ain't gonna happen; or at least any time soon anyway.

Most people go about their day to day lives with far more to worry about than which store engages in practices they don't agree with. Most people have too much on their minds to be obsessed with a singular pet topic to the degree enough to act on a boycott. Simply put, most people simply don't have the time, energy or care to be anywhere near as passionate about the issue as you.

That in no way has to do with their feeling that they are powerless or that they're brainwashed, and I considered it to be a really silly concept when you stated such.

That's why I am done. Done with politics. Done with writing. Done with trying to make a difference.

There just isn't any passion...at least not directed passion. We leave the passion to Obama. He speaks for us. But he will lose because the other side has passion. Passion enough to do whatever it takes to win.

That is what missing with the left. We simply "don't have the time, energy, or care to be anywhere near as passionate about the issue" as me.

Well, the Body Snatchers have me. I'm now one of you.

Ciao!

Consider the source.

Walmart is one. ABC is another. A lot of people blocked that channel after the pathetic piece of 9/11 propaganda they ran. Don't re-invent the wheel -- build on what is already there, imho. :)

And if there was A company, organization, or group that could be effectively boycotted, they would be too important to the daily lives of too many people to boycott effectively. What you're looking to attack is ubiquitous and redundant.

The famous Southern Baptist's boycott of Disney comes to mind. All those thousands of families were not supposed to go to the parks, buy the products, or see Disney movies. They were very public about their boycott and anger.

Not only did it fail big time, it totally destroyed any remaining credibility the had with other companies, organizations, and groups.

Before you start a public boycott, you need to make sure it damn well will work, otherwise you are worse off than before.

or have any pro Dem opinions on TV, so fuck 'em.

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