How many Free Republic members have purchased a Toyota in recent years? Probably thousands. Remember the boycott against Toyota after they caved-in to Jesse Jackass? Boycotts can be powerful, but only if there is a sustained boycott, accompanied by regular updates and reminders.
How many people have visited their local CBS affilitate in the last eight months to show their outrage over Dan RATher's attempt to Bork Bush with that phoney Air National Guard hit-piece?
ZERO! Why? Oh, that is "old news".
The reason why boycotts never are as successful as they could be is because we all just stop beating the drums after a while and we all forget about our boycotts.
How many Free Republic members have visited a McDonalds in the last year and corrected them when they called their fries "French Fries" instead of Freedom Fries? Probably just a handful, if that. Probably none.
Mass demonstrations are the most powerful tool we have. Boycotts SHOULD be the most powerful of all these mass demonstrations because they hit the companies at the Profit and Loss statement. If we ever started a regular update on boycott campaigns, that could give our enemies the biggest defeat they ever had.
Posting comments at FR only marginally helps to reclaim our nation. Sustaining boycotts and helping the boycott to spread and widen help us in our fight in a major way--if we just did it.
Is because the wrong entity is chosen for the boycott. Here in California I hope the gun groups will back a boycott of the California National Guard. If the state takes away 2nd. Amendment rights, why should the citizens of that state volunteer for the "State Militia". Oh, there will be a few officers, NCO's and "specialists" with close to 20 or 30 years, but there will be no "troops" to drill. The California National Guard can go drill with frogs and mice.