Corporations are some of the core funders of the Republicans and the Right. They have paid no price for doing this while the rewards - removal of environmental, health and safety regulations, tax beaks, government subsidies, outright crony contacts - have been great. But there is a way to hold them accountable and make them pay a price for acting against the interests of the public-at-large.
The owner of the Curves fitness and weight-loss centers for women also funds
the worst of the anti-women, anti-abortion right. When word got out about this, many women chose not to do business with them. Now a new campaign takes this to a national level bringing us a way to show corporations and their shareholders that there is a price to pay after all.
The "Buy Blue" and "Choose the Blue" campaigns offer us a way to work to convince corporations that there is a price to pay for meddling with democracy and funding the Right. These websites show which companies have been supporting the Republican Party. If you truly feel that the Republicans and the Right and their lies are bad for the country, you can hit back at some of their big-money supporters by learning who they are and taking your business elsewhere.
So spread the word, publicize this, encourage it. BUY BLUE and CHOOSE THE BLUE! Boycott the funders of the Right. MAKE THEM PAY A PRICE.
Over time this will show corporate boardrooms that there is a price for funding the Republican Party and the Right. Eventually shareholders will ask why tens and hundreds of millions of dollars are going to politics instead of into shareholder pockets.
(Burnt Orange Report was on the Curves story earlier this year.)
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