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Eleanors38

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10. I've always supported boycotts as a means of political change...
Sun Sep 13, 2015, 02:36 PM
Sep 2015

So much power is in the hands of elites and corporations, some measure of revolt and action must be available to the public. It's a slop-shot method, often failing and over-used. One thing is clear from this effort: It relies on established "organizations representing over 20 million Americans..." Cantilevered potentialities, but not a grassroots movement. Again, this is an elitist effort whose change model is prohibitionism: Throw Any anti-gun idea/action against the wall and see what sticks. I doubt this effort will go very far if for no other reason than it signals raw culture war which, save for an ever-compliant MSM, has not resonated with the public, armed or un-armed.

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