Quote Originally Posted by hatidua View Post
I don't think it's a case of giving up principle when a person consciously chooses to spend their money at companies that support their ideals rather than at establishements who actively try to curtail those very same principles and ideals. What I took from the article (in it's entirety, not a mere snippet) is that liberals focus and work at achieving their goals, whereas the conservatives gloss over these things and go right on supporting the enemy 48 hours after the storm has blown over. Colorado was able to recall two legislators through a focused effort but we need to apply that level of focus across the board. I have no qualms, whatsoever, with a merchant doing what ever they want with their own company. But compartmentalizing and justifying that behavior by the pro-2A community by brushing it off as being mere capitalism misses the point: sure, it's capitalism and the very nature of capitalism is that we don't have to support a given vendor, we can take our business elsewhere. I think the article was trying to convey that liberals have longer memories when it comes to company policy whereas conservatives don't have the same level of passion for their causes. If, after repeated poor behavior, we can essentially boycott Cheaper-Than-Dirt, I don't think it's such a reach to apply scrutiny to each entity that we determine worthy of our patronage.

If concerting our efforts toward a specified goal is deemed acting more liberal, I suspect the 2A will cease to exist within my lifetime. That's truly camel with head in sand behavior.

"The left, however, does the politicized life exceptionally well. They mount campaigns to pressure corporations to get what they want. They organize boycotts. They direct their complaints to gatekeepers who share their views and can influence policy. They blacklist artists with whom they disagree and pressure corporations to do the same. They control the levers of the media to add additional pressure from newspapers and television networks.So there will be a lot of fulmination on social media from those on the right about rights and guns and the Constitution, and then a little less the next day, and a little less the day after that, until finally you forgot why you were mad at Starbucks and you stop tweeting and facebooking and kvetching and start buying pumpkin spice lattes by the bucketful and, in a moment of clarity, you’ll think about how silly it was for you to give up Starbucks in the name of something that literally never impacted you in the first place because you don’t have an open-carry permit.

Well said..