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Yankee06
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Frommer
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8/22/2009 11:31:29 AM
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-Hodja's post addresses two issues: guns amd boycotts. For some reason, we all focused on guns. Which is always an interesting subject...
-....but for a little change, let's focus on boycotts, and the threat of boycotts. From my experience, boycotts make a lot of news but impact is usually short-term from the general public's actions. Me? --I tend to carry a grudge, so my boycotts are long-tem, ..some I've had for a lifetime.
-From my perspective, the ones that make most of the news broadcasts seem to be the left-inspired ones like Frommer's. Why is that? Jesse Jackson, based on what I've read, has apparently raised it to a high art, --some would call it extortion.
-the right has tried to use it mostly against vulgarity and sex on TV , the movies, etc. All to little success.
-But an interesting change occured last week. Usually, it's what I call some "people's protection society" putting pressure on corporate america. However, last week, it was corporate america trying to apply pressure when about 20 major corporations boycotted Beck's show.
-Maybe America has always been this-group-against-that-group. I guess you can read history that way, and even teach history that way, ...but that's not the way I learnt it, so that's not how I think about America. But for some reason , what I tend to call "tribalism" or "Balkanization" seems to be more the norm over the last few decades. Everybody seems to have a special interest group protection society, ...but worse, that's now how its citizens think of America. We're no longer a melting pot; at best, we're a tossed salad. At worst, we're becoming seperate dinning rooms. ...I had such hopes that the results of the last election would begin to change that.
-I guess this post is going nowhere,, so I'll stop. I just think it's sad for the America I grew up in, and am now growing old in.
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