{"id":38635,"date":"2021-02-04T22:10:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T03:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/?p=38635"},"modified":"2021-02-04T22:10:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T03:10:38","slug":"conservatives-should-pressure-businesses-like-the-left-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2021\/02\/04\/conservatives-should-pressure-businesses-like-the-left-does\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives Should Pressure Businesses Like the Left Does"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a sad truth. In just a few years, America\u2019s \u201clargest corporations have abandoned their traditional roles\u201d and are \u201cjump[ing] hard into politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Taking a page from the Occupy Wall Street movement that he said intimidated the business community, Scott Shepard<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 the deputy director of the National Center\u2019s Free Enterprise Project<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 writes in a Townhall commentary<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time \u2013 it\u2019s long past time \u2013 for us on the right to respond to this \u201cprivate\u201d pressure. So: Occupy Twitter? Abandon Amazon? Sit-in at Starbucks?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Scott says conservatives need to get \u201cpersonally involved\u201d in order to blunt the impact of the left\u2019s years of pressure on the nation\u2019s most powerful CEOs. He realizes this is asking a lot:<\/p>\n

This is hard for many of us on the right. We tend to be independent-minded people who naturally shy away from group activities and from groupthink. This is unavoidable for a coalition of people whose basic uniting premises include the idea: \u201cLeave me alone, and I\u2019ll do the same to you.\u201d But as the Tea Party movement early in the last decade showed, many on the right are willing and eager to get involved, while others of us can force ourselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, he notes, it is in the best interests of conservatives and people of faith to get out of their comfort zones and get involved:<\/p>\n

We should increase pressure on still-neutral organizations to stay in the middle of the road, while going all out \u2013 peaceably and without violation of any non-discriminatory laws, certainly \u2013 against companies that have moved left. This means borrowing from Occupy Wall Street and other effective leftwing tactics, and putting those strategies to work for the right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How?<\/p>\n

Consider the case of Amazon. The behemoth online retailer has deplatformed Parler<\/a><\/strong>, allowed the left to ban conservative and faith-based groups from its AmazonSmile<\/a><\/strong> charitable program and possibly cost lives by withholding<\/a> <\/strong>its assistance in COVID-19 vaccination efforts until President Donald Trump left office. There is a way to fight back:<\/p>\n

It would behoove us all, then, to note that\u00a0Walmart<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0now offers an annual subscription to a \u201cfree\u201d-delivery-any-amount program that rivals the one offered by Amazon. You don\u2019t get Prime Video from Walmart, but preserving freedom might be worth giving up\u00a0Mrs. Maisel<\/a><\/strong>, as sad as that would be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And while we\u2019re at it, \u201c[m]aybe it\u2019s time to organize sit-ins of Starbucks shops until they agree not to discriminate on the basis of viewpoint.\u201d Pointing out how this worked \u201cin similar civil rights struggles,\u201d and that the coffee retailer has decreed<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that people don\u2019t have to buy things to hang out in their stores, Scott suggests those on the right \u201c[g]et a crowd, settle in, fire up your laptops, have a lovely conversation and don\u2019t buy a thing\u201d until they recognize our concerns.<\/p>\n

To read all of Scott\u2019s Townhall commentary \u2013 \u201cOccupy Twitter?\u201d \u2013 click here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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