Your barista, beauty blogger and fantasy author don t vote the same way you do. So what?
Despite our politicization of everything, not every purchase is fraught with moral weight. Relax, and let the best products win your dollars.
Hadley Heath Manning
Opinion contributor
When I go to a farmer’s market or shopping mall, I generally don’t ask vendors 20 questions about their background or political opinion before buying their product. I want to know: Is the product good quality? Is it worth the price?
Now, there are caveats to this: Generally, I don’t want to do business with people who I know are dishonest, immoral, or who are using their business toward ends I find reprehensible. That’s where boycotts come in (or, in another context, where tariffs and trade embargoes come in). Consumers are free to pressure companies to act a certain way. That’s always been the case.
Against a Politicized Economy
Your barista, beauty blogger and fantasy author don t vote the same way you do. So what? Min
When I go to a farmer’s market or shopping mall, I generally don’t ask vendors 20 questions about their background or political opinion before buying their product. I want to know: Is the product good quality? Is it worth the price?
Now, there are caveats to this: Generally, I don’t want to do business with people who I know are dishonest, immoral, or who are using their business toward ends I find reprehensible. That’s where boycotts come in (or, in another context, where tariffs and trade embargoes come in). Consumers are free to pressure companies to act a certain way. That’s always been the case.
Democrats want us to believe that guns are the threat, when it is their policies that are the real danger to people s lives. They don t care if you re a single mother living in a rough neighborhood. The Left isn t concerned with your protection and well-being. They want you disarmed, period. They ve concentrated the intelligence community, the FBI, and even the military on the false threat of hordes of white supremacists and domestic extremists living next door. This is about CONTROL, and this week gave the Left yet another crisis to help them seize it. But only if we let them.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined Glenn Beck on the radio program Thursday to explain how rabid partisanship is causing President Joe Biden and his administration to make the political decisions directly responsible for the absolute crisis at the border and it s getting worse every day. Cruz described how the Biden administration is caving to the hard left agenda that supports open borders and views U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan or Nazis. He listed the Trump-era policies Biden has overturned, including halting construction of the border wall, re-instituting the failed policy of catch and release, and ending the Remain in Mexico policy a big foreign policy victory of the Trump administration.
Predatory providers whose actions are not supportive of all families and cause harm to vulnerable communities don t deserve our protection or our sympathies