Boycott Negativity

I despise negativity. That includes negative people and negative situations. I disenfranchise and boycott them, respectively. I encourage you to do so too!

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Boycotting to Vote with Your Dollars

Hi Readers!

I hope this blog post finds you and brings you joy, happiness, insight, and/or pragmatic action items to move your life forward in a positive way.

Today I am advocating for BOYCOTTS. Of EVERYTHING. Most people are of the accurate belief that America is moving in the wrong direction, sociopolitically, and that most people are powerless to do anything about it because of the special interests who basically run everything. Historically, populaces would resist such deception and corruption by their politicians by striking. And, ideally, Americans today would engage in a mass GENERAL STRIKE - comprising refusal to work and boycotts of the offending companies' products - to persuade leaders to engage in more desirable and beneficial behavior. That's more challenging to do today though.

But what is not more challenging to do today is BOYCOTTING things and voting with your DOLLARS. There are two ways to vote with your dollars and protect America from the takeover by the Diabolical Forces in the Universe (DFUs), as they are called.

1. Boycott big multinational corporations and their products. Instead, buy local at mom and pop shops in your community. This supports the local economy and sticks it to THE MAN at the national and global level. Don't buy from Amazon or other giant online retailers. Instead, find your desired product on Amazon or other giant online retailer, but instead of buying it, ask a local mom and pop retailer to get the product for you from their wholesaler. They may even try to match Amazon's (or other giant online retailer's) price.

2. Boycott social media. By now, you should be aware that social media is FREE for the public to use because the public is the PRODUCT! Social media companies make billions by selling advertisers YOUR EYEBALLS (time spend on screens looking at social media and embedded advertisements). As a result, social media companies also actively work to make social media platforms as ADDICTIVE to your eyeballs as possible. And it works! Have you ever tried to go without social media for a week? Or even a day? No. Because you literally cannot withdraw your brain from the addictiveness of social media without significant emotional distress. The social media algorithms also exploit your private web history to target advertisements to you (Alexa even listens passively to your conversations and feeds this into the algorithms). You can actually turn off this advertiser matching feature in a lot of social media platforms. And you should!

If 25% of Americans engaged in the above BOYCOTTS, it would have a significant impact on socioeconomic policy. Because, even though you or I have very little power and voice in our sociopolitics (besides voting), big corporate entities have a lot of power and voice. And if we collectively f**k with their bottom lines, they will make a stink about it to the politicians and policy makers who grift off them, and change is possible.

If you read this post and agree with it, please share it with your tribe and let's get the ball moving on this s**t ASAP.

Have great day!

The End.

The Correct Assessment

Hi Readers!

It's been a while and I hope this blog post finds you and brings you joy or insight.

There has been a lot of talk over the past couple months about why the Democrats lost the 2024 Election. All of it is bunk though, because it does not get to the core of the matter, but just dances around it. Let me tell you in the simplest terms why the Dems lost in 2024.

The Dems lost because America is, at its core, a deeply and toxically racist and misogynist country. Yep. That's the hard fact. Even people who do not identify as racist or sexist are, by virtue of being part of the American Institution, racist and sexist. It's why we have DEI, because Americans KNOW they fundamentally cannot make unbiased hiring decisions in the workplace (the unqualified white male will almost always get chosen for the job over the qualified minority candidate, just by the nature of them being white and male, with the assumed dominance and superiority that goes along with that stereotype).

The Democrats nobly, but fatally, chose a black woman to lead their party at the national level in 2024 and - as hard as it may be to hear this - that doomed them. Because they chose a candidate that the soul of America was poisoned against at a fundamental level on both counts: racism and sexism.

It added insult to injury that the populism of the other party made racism and misogyny mainstream and acceptable (The Tolerance Paradox). But they were just giving voice to a vile cancer that has infected America since its inception. The sooner we accept that, the better. The Dems should have held a crash convention after Biden dropped out and chosen a charismatic white male, even if that individual would be, by definition, less qualified than Kamala Harris, because that's the nature of America, and you need to understand that nature if you want to win elections. If you don't care about winning elections, put up the most qualified candidate. But you will lose if it is not a white male. You might argue that Barack Obama was elected twice. That's true. But if he had been a she, she would not have been elected.

So, there you go. Feel free to leave a question or comment, if you want to explore this further. But in summary, any other explanation for why the Dems lost other than the one above is wrong. We should tackle racism and sexism in schools and in workplaces and in public, to try to cure the country of these cancers. But until we do, white males will continue to dominate, no matter how distasteful that is to accept.

A good day to you.

The End.