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In reply to the discussion: If you want to make the next 4 years tolerable. [View all]hunter
(38,930 posts)... and look out for the welfare of my family, friends, and community as best I can. My social support network goes both ways.
I've been boycotting industries I find especially pernicious all my life, it's something I learned from my parents. I don't do it as any kind of effective protest, it's mostly it's about my own conscience.
The smallest environmental footprint I ever had, a time when I was boycotting damned near everything because I simply had no money, I was living in my broken down car in a church parking lot. I upgraded from that to the garden shed of a PTSD Vietnam war veteran, but neither of those are lifestyles I would promote.
Republicans crash the economy so their billionaire friends can buy stuff for cheap. Then they profit when the Democrats pick up the pieces and put everything back together again.
I'm weary of these cycles.
The "average voter" in the U.S.A. hasn't seemed to notice yet that every Republican president starting with Ronald Reagan has been some kind of meat puppet for the sociopathic billionaire class.