A proposal: Boycott Republicans.

[Leftist Agitator]

I don't mean just boycotting businesses who advertise on Faux, I don't mean just boycotting rightist owned businesses, I mean to suggest that we collectively boycott ALL Republicans on a personal level.

If there is a Republican in your life, refuse to conduct any economic transaction with them. In fact, if possible, do not speak to them at all. Let them know why you have broken off all contact, as your average Republican is too stupid to figure things out for him or herself.

If they want to let the crazies run their Party, that's fine. The Republicans are only about 30% of the population of this country, and the REAL crazies are even less than that. Let's see how they manage if the 40% or so of Democrats refuse to have anything to do with them. They can't run the country on their own, hell, even with the cooperation of the Democrats, they still couldn't run the country under Bush. If we collectively refuse to enable them, if we force them to realize that they need us more than we need them, they will either get their Party in order (which is doubtful) or they will cease to be relevant in the slightest.

Thoughts?

[still_one]

1. Cancel or down grade your cable or satellite service, so it doesn't contain faux news /nt

[Leftist Agitator]

5. I don't have cable.

Haven't had it for seven years. But I think you for your good suggestion!

[still_one]

13. That is exactly what I did, and I told them exactly why, I didn't want my revenue

contributing to a station that spreads the propaganda of hate

[zeemike]

33. That is exactly what I did

And they call me once a month to get me back but I tell them that when they offer a package without Faux I will consider it.
They try to tell me that I can cut out that chanel on their TIVO but I point out that Faux still gets to say I am a subscriber.
If enough people did this Faux would change.

[barbiegeek]

39. Child lock Faux news instead, I have to keep my cable to MSNBC

but I child locked the christian 700 club channel and fox news, so it doesn't show up on the guide. I have satellite so my box will record my refusal of airing that station. Faux News is as obscene as penthouse channel.

[Hamlette]

2. An easy on is to Costco (100% blue) instead of Sam's Club. n/t

[Ruffhowse]

3. I'm already there.

I already do this. It's pretty easy since I live in a very blue city in a deep blue state (Portland, OR). Right wing trash know better than to show their fascist inclinations around here.

[troubledamerican]

30. I'm there, too. Been boycotting Republicans since 1995.

I'm ready to pack bags, jump ship, and never speak my mother tongue again. And I live in "blue" Seattle.

[grantcart]

4. In some places they are 80% of the community and others 5%

Easy to do in New York - a little tough if your from Idaho.

[MadHound]

6. Oh, yeah, that's a real bright idea

Cut off family members, friends and neighbors out of spite. That simply guarantees that their world view is completely dominated by conservatives. Stupidity.

Rather than boycotting, simply explain the facts to them, make this a teachable moment. As a family member you have more influence than talk radio or Faux news.

[Brianboru]

8. Rational discussion of ideas.

Novel thought, we should all try that!

[madeline_con]

9. You obviously don't know MY family! n/t

[Leftist Agitator]

11. Oy...

"Rather than boycotting, simply explain the facts to them, make this a teachable moment."

You can't make a "teachable moment" out of anything with a person who thinks that Obama is a crypto-Muslim Socialist who was born in Kenya despite ample evidence to the contrary.

You can't have a rational conversation with someone who thinks that Obama's speech to school children is an underhanded attempt at political indoctrination.

You can't have a cogent argument with anyone who takes anything that Glenn Beck says seriously.

"That simply guarantees that their world view is completely dominated by conservatives."

It already is, and will be whether or not there are sane people speaking the truth in their social circle.

"Stupidity."

You know what would really be stupid? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Letting Republicans run roughshod over the truth and what is right AGAIN because people like you are unwilling to make some sacrifices is pretty goddamend stupid if you ask me.

"As a family member you have more influence than talk radio or Faux news."

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :rofl:

Jesus Christ... If you think that you have more influence than the rightist media over your Republican family members, then you are truly deluded. Go try to convince them that they are being lied to and that Obama isn't what they've heard about on Faux. Then get back to me.

[katanalori]

19. good idea

but the majority of the ones I know do NOT want rational discussion. They do NOT want to learn. In the case of those types, I go with the OP. I no longer associate with them. I tried, I really did.

[barbiegeek]

40. He's talking about cutting $$$ ties not family

Buying products from Blue liberal stores is not the same as cutting off your family. I buy blue as much as I can. I can't be friends with Repugnants, because I don't want them teaching my children hate. Family well, that's different your stuck with them.

[Ian David]

7. Fuck yeah. n/t

[WyoHiker]

10. God, I'd need an air-lift

Like when the Soviets blockaded Berlin

[create.peace]

12. i already do, as much as i can...the electric company is westar, and they are

as a company, totally regressive. next year we can reconsider our internet provider, but they are not bad, it think, for kansas. we don't go to walmart, make the trek to costco about every 6 weeks, and a coop. we buy organic almost completely, and cook from scratch. we buy flying j gas when we can, as they have no defense contracts and there is NO good oil co. our electric bill is about 30 a month, tmobile 2 phones 50, local lp gas about 45 in the winter (heating), and that's about it. our clothes are second hand or homemade. i won't even buy at a craft fair if i think the folks are republican on the coasts, less likely, but i recommend everyone check out their local craft fairs for holiday shopping. saturday markets like portland especially.

[Gman2]

14. I tried a republican boycott, I urged women not to mate with republicans.

For many, it was too late, and they had mated, and had children with these cretans. But, the problem is, they have attractive wallets. But, I told them that if they divorced them, and took half, and found true love, with a dem, for the long run, that too is natural, as many females in nature, have paramours.

[customerserviceguy]

15. You'll never get President Obama to sign off on it

He's always spoken of unifying this country, he knows just how polarized it has become over the last thirty or forty years, and he wants to end that.

Boycotting people just because of a stated political belief is the opposite of what he's stated he wants to accomplish.

[Leftist Agitator]

17. Well...

"Boycotting people just because of a stated political belief is the opposite of what he's stated he wants to accomplish."

Which is part of the reason why he has accomplished so little.

Besides, Obama doesn't have to sign off on shit. This is a proposal for a grass-roots campaign to ostracize the Republicans so that they either get their political house in order, or preferably die.

[customerserviceguy]

24. Well, yourself...

"Which is part of the reason why he has accomplished so little."

That sounds like something a Repuke would say. He's set the course in motion to bring about an economic recovery. Frankly, if the economy hadn't been going seriously into the toilet a month or so before the election, we'd have President McCain right now.

If he brings the economy back from the brink, he gets more chances to get more things done. I'll admit, I'm disappointed about Afghanistan, but maybe after a year of seeing that nothing other than cut-and-run is going to work there, maybe he'll stop having our servicemembers dying there.

[Greenpeach]

16. I quit...

the place where I used to work out...couldn't stand the atmosphere. The memory of an obese, oldster with a really bad, red dye job, marching in place, crowing, after Katrina, "Well, the lord is showin' his anger...I'll bet they're repentin' now" forever burnt on my mind. Then, of course later, the big McCain/Palin sticker on her car. She was typical of their clientele and they were "proud to be a Christian organization" You can bet Republican too. I also quit my Repub dentist.

[Leftist Agitator]

18. "I also quit my Repub dentist. "

Did you tell him why? If not, and it hasn't been too long since you left, call the office and explain that though you (presumably) were very pleased with the quality of the dental care that you received, you refuse to do business with anyone who supports the Republican Party or their principles. You have to let these fuckers know, in no uncertain terms, precisely WHY it is that you choose to have no further dealings with them.

[depakid]

20. Already do to the extent it's possible

[HughMoran]

21. Whenever I know who I am dealing with, this is my approach.

I want Republicans to know that the behavior they are promoting is not acceptible in this country.

[sweetladybug]

22. Republicans are already doing this to Democrats

I live in TN and have been shunned by others just because I am a Democrat and they are Republicans

[HughMoran]

25. Until Bush, I was willing to put up with a few right-wingers

They've worn out their welcome with me - I no longer am the first to bring up politics with someone I don't know well. If they say some stupid right wing talking point, I simply stop talking. My silence unnerves them - which is what I'm looking for. I don't want to let them think that the behavior they are promoting is in any way part of "normal" conversation in this country. I've had it with the bullshit. No more Mr. Nice Guy.

[pipi_k]

23. As someone above me pointed out...

that's really a rather stupid idea.

Well, it is if people have kids and grandkids they care about.

So just because my son often votes Republican, I'm supposed to cut him out of my life, and along with him, my two granddaughters...


And what if the shoe were on the other foot and he wanted to cut ME out of his life because I'm a Liberal? How utterly MEAN would that be?

If a bunch of Republicans suggested the same thing to him, he wouldn't be an asshole and actually do it. Why would he want to sink to those depths, for petes sake....

And what about people who work for Republican bosses? Jobs are so easy to come by these days, yeah...let's all just treat our Republican bosses like shit and see what happens.

Oh, and we can't forget other people we might come into contact with ...like, oh, I dunno....doctors and nurses maybe? What if you get sick or injured and end up in the ER... you're going to actually find out what political party your doctor or nurses belong to, then refuse care from them?

Because, you know, this can't be about cherry picking which Republicans we're going to boycott. It's got to be ALL or NONE. If it's not all or none, then it's nothing but a lot of cowardly hot air bullshit: "Oh, I'm going to talk to this Republican because my future depends on it, but I'm going to ignore this other one because he's nothing to me."

Honestly, sometimes I wonder if people give much thought to their bright ideas...

:eyes:

[Leftist Agitator]

29. If you don't have enough courage in your convictions sufficient to cut your son...

Out of your life, then there's nothing I can do for you.

"So just because my son often votes Republican, I'm supposed to cut him out of my life, and along with him, my two granddaughters..."

Um, yeah. And tell him WHY you are choosing to do so. Either he'll get the message, or he won't. If he does, one less rightist retard in the world. If he doesn't, then good riddance. Tell your granddaughters that you can't spend time with them anymore because their Daddy supports evil people and evil things.

I quit speaking to EVERYONE in my family except my brother over this shit. If you're too cowardly to do the same, well, then I pity you.

"What if you get sick or injured and end up in the ER..."

Well, thanks to Republican assholes like your son, if I get sick or injured I suffer in great pain and don't go to the ER, because I don't have health coverage. When I got my toes run over and crushed on my left foot crossing the street at a crosswalk a few years back, I refused treatment, because even though in theory the hit-and-run driver's insurance would pay for it if she or he were ever caught (which they weren't), I didn't and don't have the money to go to get proper treatment. And in case you were wondering, yes, I do walk with a limp now.

"And what if the shoe were on the other foot and he wanted to cut ME out of his life because I'm a Liberal? How utterly MEAN would that be?"

If you were spreading lies and hatred, and impeding the progress of both the U.S. and the world at large for the sake of politics, then he would be 100% right to cut you out of his life.

[backwoodsbob]

31. so if you wont cut off family you're a coward?

oy vey

this is why I spend less and less time in politics now

[TorchTheWitch]

32. You are one really sick individual

To call anyone who won't cut out family members from their lives who they love because of what party they tend to vote for a coward is sick, and it's sick and pitiful that you not only did this, you're proud of it.

The only person I'm going to cut out of my life is YOU, and you actually EARNED it.

<CLICK>

[pipi_k]

34. Well then you know what? I don't have the courage of my convictions

because I'm not going to cut everyone out of my life who is, or whom I suspect to be, a Republican.

And you know what else? Last election I actually voted for a Republican for a local office. You know why? Because his Democratic opponent sounded even worse than he did.


so sit here and call me, and the people I know and love all the names you want behind your little shroud of anonymity. I doubt very highly you would say such things to my face.

You think Democrats are totally innocent in all of this? yeah...OK. Crooks come in all stripes, and let me tell you that whatever shitty things that have happened under Republicans weren't done without some collusion from Democrats as well.

One of these days you'll grow up and drop the fairy tale that one party is all "bad" while the other is all "good". Until then, you're going to have a pathetically lonely life, brought about by your own doing.

Good luck.


edited to add:

PS...

Since I'm such a cowardly and heinous (in your opinion) person, please feel free to place me on "ignore". I'm certainly not going to return the favor. I want to be able to see, and respond to, more of the same idiocy. But what a dilemma, eh? Should you stand up for your own convictions and ignore me, never knowing what snarky things I might be writing to you? Or be a coward and don't put me on ignore just so I don't get away with writing anything you can't reply to...

decisions, decisions...

:P

[northernlights]

36. it's only stupid if you don't see past your own family

Just don't do business with Republicans. If your plumber is a Republican, find a new plumber. (Unless your plumber is your son, lol). Likewise the electrician, the grocery, the mechanic, the school, etc.

Your son, of course, you keep in your life. Be sure to teach your grandchildren better values than your son. That should be fairly easy. Kids always rebel against their parents. But side with granny ;)

[pipi_k]

38. Nope...can't do this

because unless I'm misunderstanding the OP, he's suggesting that it's an ALL or NOTHING affair.

He's saying we need to cut ALL Republicans out of our lives, including our family, and if we don't, we are cowards, not deserving of the name Liberals or whatever.

See, because if we allow only certain Republicans in but not others, we're basically being no better than the RW crazies who cherry-pick through facts to support their own agendas. No...we have to be strong and put ALL Republicans out of our lives, including children, grandchildren, parents, and maybe even...who knows...spouses.


I don't have the wish to do that. Nor do I have the wish to complicate my life further by picking and choosing from an already limited array of people to perform services where I live.

What, do we go into a restaurant and ask the waitress for whom she voted before giving our order?

If the owners of a small family grocery near my home are Republicans, what do I do...travel 20 miles to the nearest larger supermarket so I don't have to give business to the local people? And in doing so, I take business away from my own community and support a larger city that is doing quite well, thankyouverymuch.

sorry...I know you mean well, but I really have enough to do without complicating my life further with childish games like this.

[PM Martin]

26. Well, there goes Country "Music"

Though I don't listen in the first place.

[NecklyTyler]

27. Will someone please tell Pelosi and Reid who won the election?

We control the House, the Senate, and the Executive Branch. We don't need the Republicans to govern. Reid and Pelosi need to use our political advantage to send bills to the President for signing. The Republicans are irrelevant and should be ignored

[mullard12ax7]

28. Already doing it and it's not hard

I know a family that worked for McCain's campaign, called me a traitor and terrorist and got paid to do it. I used to buy a service of theirs but not anymore, never again. I also tell everyone else to stay away from them. Political differences are 1 thing but calling me a traitor and a terrorist crossed a line big time, and forever.

[NoPasaran]

35. I haul a tank of filtered compressed air around with me and breathe through a mask

I refuse to breathe the same air as THOSE people.




:sarcasm:

[pipi_k]

37. Now there ya go....

a true person of conviction!

Will the OP demonstrate the same level of gumption?

I think not.


:7

[pipi_k]

41. OK, so I've been giving this some thought and I've decided that

this has all got to be some kind of joke. Maybe a strange way of making a point, although it's beyond me what that point might be...

Because nobody...not even a Freeper sicko bastard... would suggest cutting all Democrats/Liberals out of their lives, including their own children.

Or maybe a Freeper would suggest doing that, who knows...in which case we'd all be sitting here thinking what an asshole someone like that would have to be.



OK...so 'fess up...this is a joke, right? Ease our minds and please tell us you're not this stupid...

[L0oniX]

42. I charge repukes more for my services already.

[LWolf]

43. No, thank you.

First of all, I work in public service. It would be unethical for me to serve unequally.

Secondly, I don't believe the correct place to "reach out" is the aisles of Congress. I think political parties ought to be fighting for the principles they were organized to protect.

It's people on the ground...neighbors, communities, who should be reaching out to find common ground and work together.

That's the way attitudes are shifted.

If I were to use your idea, I'd be "boycotting" a hell of a lot of Democrats, too, who want to let centrists/corporatists/3rd way/"new" dems run the party.