Donald Trump has been indited and convicted 33 times but still manages to con the United States into allowing him to be President. In many states, felons are barred from voting so it follows that felons also should be barred from holding office. Those who vote for a criminal do not have the best interests of the nation in mind.  Theirs is criminal intent, much the same as Parliament had criminal intent when they gave special privileges to the East India Company in 1773.  For crying out loud, stop doing the same thing over and over and expecting different outcomes.  Fight back.

There are many who ask, what can we do?  We must fight back and use all legitimate means at your disposal. Now by legitimate, I do not favor armed insurrection, that’s why Trump should be in jail.  We are not yet to the point of no return and it is not hopeless.  NO, now is the time for peaceful protests against not the victims of this subterfuge but rather the financiers who want to unravel modernism, all forms of civil protection, and the rule of law.  American politics runs on money and EVERY TIME you give your money to right leaning, anti-American corporations and businesses, you are funding the Trump insurrection.

Yes, I am recommending boycotts.  Take away their money and they will rethink destroying our country.  Take away their money and they will be forced to prioritize what they attack.  Continue to GIVE them the means and they will continue to undermine the Constitution, the Judicial System, and America’s hegemony in the world.  America First is the road to disaster, the road to global recession, the road to the next global conflict and it will destroy our country if we let it. 

Now that does not mean you have to embrace the Left.  Many of their policies are bad too.  Their financiers have an agenda that is equally destructive.  All I am asking is that we live up to our capitalist ideals.  USE the marketplace to reward those you favor and punish those you oppose.  Vote on election day but also every time you open your wallet, and remember that every business you frequent makes political contributions WITH THE MONEY YOU GIVE THEM.  When you buy things in a capitalist society, your choice of who you buy from is much more impactful than your one vote at the ballot box on Super Tuesday.  Boycott those who, through their donations of the money you have given them, fund candidates and issues you disfavor. 

Boycotts have occurred throughout history, and movement got its name in 1880 when English land agent Capt. Charles Cunningham Boycott raised the rent and inhumanely evicted his tenants in Ireland. The community joined together and refused to pay or work with him, eventually forcing him to leave. The “boycott” was born, and the idea took hold.  To be successful, boycotts must be targeted and sustained.  They don’t have to be total but they do have to be sustained.  Simply choosing to delay big ticket purchases until 2027 would be devasting to some of the chief funders of the destruction of America.

Consider these successful boycotts:

• Having run up huge debts fighting the French in a global conflict, Parliament enacted the 1767 Townshend Revenue Act, placing taxes on glass, lead, oil, paint, and paper.  Boycotts and protests that forced the act’s repeal.
• When the East India company faced bankruptcy for inept and corrupt management of taxation in India during the famine of 1770, Parliament issued the Tea Act of 1773 giving them a monopoly on tea sales in the budding American colonies. Numerous American merchants protested this act by refusing to buy East India Company Tea, and when the government demanded that they stop the boycott, the Son’s of Liberty, dressed as Mohawk Indians, climbed aboard three ships in Boston Harbor, and tossed 92,000 pounds of tea overboard.
• In 1791, English merchant James Wright said he would no longer sell sugar from the West Indies because it had been produced by slaves. Barbados was a major sugar-exporting island, importing more than 250,000 slaves to toil in the industry. Jamaica imported more than twice that amount. This small drop in global sales led to the British prohibition on transatlantic slave trading (not slave ownership but shipment of new slaves from Africa).
• In 1880, Capt. Charles Cunningham Boycott was told to raise the rent on his tenants leading to mass evictions.  These tenants refused to work, the mailmen stopped his mail and local businesses who lost money because of the evictions and work stoppages refused to allow Boycott to frequent their shops (sort of reverse boycott).  All of this eventually forced to Boycott to leave.
• In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, inspiring the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The 13-month protest ended with the Supreme Court barring segregation on public buses.
•  In the 1980s, when the United States and other countries refused to do business with or travel to South Africa, they eventually prompted an end to the apartheid that had separated black and whites there since 1948.
• In 1980, President Jimmy Carter refused to send American athletes to the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow as a protest of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. More than 60 nations joined the U.S.
• Mahatma Gandhi led a protest Britain’s colonial salt laws, which didn’t allow Indians to process or sell their own salt. Gandhi and his followers broke the law by evaporating seawater to make salt. He encouraged others to do the same. Gandhi reached an agreement with India’s British viceroy in 1931 in exchange for an end to the salt tax and the release of political prisoners.
• In the 1990s, people grew concerned about buying “blood diamonds,” or stones mined using forced labor in African war zones, potentially funding rebel armies. This led to the Kimberley Process, an international system that certifies conflict-free diamonds.
• North Carolina faced a boycott when it tried to pass House Bill 2 (HB2). Better-known as the “bathroom bill,” the law required transgender people to use the bathrooms, changing rooms, and showers in state-run buildings that corresponded to the sex on their birth certificate. After businesses like PayPal and sports leagues like the NCAA boycotted the state, North Carolina rescinded the bill.
• On May 1, 2006, immigrant workers boycotted business, refused to go to work, and kept their kids out of school. The day was called the Day Without Immigrants and people all over the nation protested H.R. 337, which would have made it a felony to live in the United States illegally.
• In 2017, Donald Trump issued an executive order banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, causing protests across the country. Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom dropped Ivanka Trump’s products.  Macy’s ditched Trump’s line of menswear.  The Trump Home Line was removed from Home Shopping Network.
• In the early 2000s, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers—an advocacy group made up largely of immigrants working in tomato fields in southwest Florida—called for a boycott of Taco Bell because the company would not negotiate with them. The boycott gained nationwide support. Many college students supported their efforts, with 21 colleges removing or blocking the restaurant chain from their campuses.

Yes, these are token protests but were non-violent and focused on causing ECONOMIC pain in order to create meaningful political change.  They work best when the companies being boycotted are directly involved in the issue being protested.  For example, the college protest against Florida entertainment venues over gun rights had no effect because very few of these were involved in gun lobbying but protests against Delta and Home Depot over Georgia’s LBGTQ policies were immediately effective as these companies were part of Georgia’s enforcement plans. 

There is growing frustration in America about the direction we are taking economically and politically.  Too many people feel helpless to enact change but boycotts, even as simple a boycott as delaying a major purchase, can hit the big money and political bosses in ways that they cannot recover from.  Don’t just complain, complain with your wallet. 

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