I live in this fantasy world where there is a two-state solution to the ideological divide in our country. In this fantasy we make a rule that allows business owners to ignore ALL laws, all of them, as long as they put the word "republican" somewhere in their business' name.
Big Al's Bait Shop would become Big Republican Al's Bait Shop or Big Al's Bait Shop, A Republican Business. Big Al could have the freedom to decide. Big Al loves freedom... for him.
The trade off for Al is that he no longer gets access to the courts, the police, the fire department... any government service for that matter. This is good for Al because all these things are in the way of his success.
The idea behind this plan is judo inspired: use your opponents strength against him. In this case use your opponents idiotic ideology against him.
If you knew a business had no obligation to provide safe food you wouldn't eat there. If you couldn't sue if you slipped on his un-shoveled sidewalk you wouldn't go there. If Al couldn't call the fire department if his shop was on fire... he might (might) think twice about this plan.
The idea of this plan is to let Al find out for himself that his anti-government bootstrap nn-sense is essential to his customer's expectations of commerce and they will not engage him without certain expected conditions. So as Al's business dried up as a result of his ideology, so would his ridiculous ideology.
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