www.nsa.gov/docs/venona/venona_docs.html
In 1995 the NSA released translation of Soviet cables decrypted in the
1940 by the Venona Project. “Venona was a top-secret U.S. effort to gather and
decrypt messages sent in the 1940s by agents of what is now called the KGB and
the GRU, the Soviet military intelligence agency. The cables revealed the
identities of numerous Americans who were spies for the Soviet Union, including
those chronicled in NOVA’s “Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies.” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/intercepts.html
Overtly communist
anarchists and pro-Islamic activists with a microphone in their hands attack
the tax-paying middle class during organized protests that turn into riots,
calling ordinary Americans names that cannot be repeated in polite company, not
the least of which is “simpletons” and “delusional,” suffering of “cognitive
dissonance” because most Americans refuse to believe their immigration lies and
the anthropogenic global warming deception.
Hollywood
and the MSM are hotbeds of Marxists, no longer hiding their hatred for the
fly-over country, the millions of Americans they want to make irrelevant
because they happen to love our country and disagree with their global
communist agenda of re-engineering our lives in the image of their desired
tyranny.
Actors and
singers are drunk with self-importance. The vicious Hollywood denizens forget
that they have money and a lavish lifestyle because we, the middle class “simpletons,”
highly educated, successful in their own careers, paid to see their movies,
plays, and concerts.
Americans in
general spend their hard-earned money to “watch you pretend to be characters in
movies and on TV. Your only job is to entertain us, to take us away from reality.
Your personal opinion means nothing to us. You are significant and influential
only in your own mind and within the minds of your elitist peers. You are a
marionette to us and nothing more. Your job is to sing, act, and hold your
opinions to yourself.” (David van Ness)
Some CEOs
are equally eager to impose their world views on Americans by mixing the
retailing of their products with their far left political views and
anti-Americanism. Americans can use their wallets to send a message to these
CEOs that they can live without their goods and services, buying from pro-American
businesses. Often the progressive (read communist) ideology espoused by a CEO
backfires and their stock takes a considerable dive, in some cases racking up
billions of dollars in revenue losses.
Most
recently, Nordstrom’s move to remove Ivanka Trump’s line of clothes under the
pretense that her clothes did not sell well anymore backfired. The timing was circumspect, to say the least. Many
conservative women immediately closed their accounts, cut up their store credit
cards, and returned thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise back to the
nearby stores. One woman returned $14,000 worth of shoes and purses from one
transaction.
Many women, myself
included, in a gesture of solidarity with our President and his family, bought
Ivanka Trump merchandise from other retailers such as the Canadian-owned Lord
& Taylor.
Unfortunately,
returning merchandise back to the return-friendly store, does not really affect
the retailer that much; they have contracts with the various wholesalers and
can cut their losses by returning defective or unwanted items at cost to the
respective wholesaler.
Returns on a
whim or for a boycott affect the associates, whether liberal or conservative,
associates who work hard on commission and are punished by their employers for
not meeting their goals when large returns occur.
When an
associate spends an entire hour to make a sale to a difficult or demanding customer,
and that shopper later returns everything she bought, either for buyer remorse
or because she wanted to boycott the store, associates suffer. Since payroll is
the largest item for a company, any boycotted store responds by cutting employee
hours. The billionaire major stockholder owners seldom suffer, they make up the
temporary losses in the long run unless the boycott is sustained.
For a few
days, in a move of solidarity with stores that removed Ivanka Trump’s line,
progressive women showed up with a “holier than thou attitude,” purchasing a single
and inexpensive item, telling the sales person that they’ve never shopped there
before but they came in that time to buy something, symbolic of their
intolerant cause.
Because progressives
don’t generally take economics classes for their social justice or women’s
studies degrees, they cannot possibly understand that repeat and satisfied
customers make a substantial difference in the bottom line of any business, not
snowflakes trying to score a misguided political point.
We must not
allow Hollywood, wealthy athletes, and CEOs to bully us into submission to
their leftist political view of the world. We must vote for our capitalist way
of life with our wallets and make them understand that it is the free market
economy based on supply and demand that has put them in the affluent positions
and the jet-set lifestyle they enjoy so much.
Shooting the
goose that lays the golden egg is not a good idea. When the goose dies, a.k.a. the
middle class, so does the wealthy elitist lifestyle. As an actor or athlete, you become irrelevant
and the pliable subject of a totalitarian regime that will tell you if, when,
and how you can exhibit your “talent,” and it must be the communist-approved or
theocracy-sanctioned kind of “talent,” presented in the proper attire for
women.
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