However you have arrived to the conclusion, you must admit that we are in danger.
Not only singular we as a personal group of one or two, but we as a nation.
This is mainly by design. Their design.
The chaos, the mass firings, agency by agency.
All those lives ruined.
All those career civil servants who keep the lights on, and the airplanes where they need to be, who kept the national parks open and safe for visitors – gone.
No matter where you sit on the political aisle, no matter who you voted for, or why you voted the way you did, does this feel good to you? Is this what you wanted?
The number one thing that was cited over and over and over and over and over about why the votes were the way they were was the price of eggs. I know that this was a red herring, after all, the price of eggs is higher than it has ever been.
How is that working for you? You realize now that this is a ridiculous argument, right? Right?
We can get mad and scream and shout accusations.
Or we can get to work.
After all, resistance is not a sprint, but a marathon.
I am ready to weigh in with my purchase power. Are you?
Time to let the companies know that the American people mean business. As in, no business to them on those days.
This Friday is the first organized pocketbook protest. It is a no-buy day.
Nothing.
Nada.
Not even a stick of gum.
One of my friends lives near a shopping center and has told me they are going to keep watch on the cars going toward the shopping center on Friday. They hope that the amount of cars will be less. Time will tell.
The Montgomery bus strike lasted over a year. 381 days to be exact. I am prepared to go the long haul.
I have emptied my Amazon cart and most of my lists. The only things that are left are things for school and books for school. I haven’t bought anything from them since Christmas.
We can do this; we’ve just gotten lazy with the ease and convenience of it all.
It is time to make a new plan. I have curated a list of places I will be buying from, of small businesses that get our money. I have made planting plans for the spring, summer, and fall, and plan for the utilization of our fridge and freezer.
And protest with our buying power. A world in which I can make purchases easily but have a boot on my neck politically is not a world I want to live in. This is how we protest, small ripples that become a wave.
My protest begins with a single action. No-buy on Friday. This is the first action step in what will be a marathon of protesting.
It is time to be prepared.
Sometimes the beginning of the protest comes at a shout, like at some of the town halls that happened this last week.
Sometimes, the beginning of the protest comes with a snap, like the closing of the wallet.
What 5 things did I do last week for my employer? I’m not going to tell you.
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