I am a firm, firm believer in letting the free market arbitrate political disputes as much as possible.<\/p>\n
But sometimes, the free market beats me to it.<\/p>\n
Not always: years ago, when liberal social justice and then ease lined up against Chick-fil-A, I was already to go out and grab a bag full. But there were no Chick-fil-As in the Twin Cities at the time. Likewise, last week when a California politician criticized In and Out Burger for donating to Republicans,\u2026 Well, not only are there no such restaurants anywhere in Minnesota, but I don’t eat hamburgers anymore.<\/p>\n
More to the point, though? Nike has fraudulently cast Colin Kaepernick is a civil rights legend. He’s not, of course \u2013 he was riding the bench before he started riding his knee, and he barely had a career to “sacrifice” with his antics.<\/p>\n
But I haven’t bought a Nike product of any kind in probably 30 years, because the price for the quality is just too high.<\/p>\n
Likewise, earlier this week when Levi Strauss company announced they were forming a gun control group among big businesses, I ordinarily have made a mental note to stop buying their products (as I did with Pepsi, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell back in the 1990s).<\/p>\n
But I haven’t put on a pair of Levi’s in close to 20 years \u2013 because when I did buy them, the quality was so shoddy I had to check to see if they have been made in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin wall. That being a time of my life where I had to stretch a block, having pants wear \u2013 I kid you not \u2013 the crotch ripped out after two months was a big influence on my personal free market, if you catch my drift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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