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There have been so many myths for years about boycotts and pressure campaigns. And people don’t realize the greatest purveyor of them are the targets of boycotts and pressure campaigns. They don’t want you thinking that they notice or care. But they do care. A lot.
The Republicans do too but you’d never know it. This is why what is necessary is not any one specific action but a consistent series of them overtime. And they must have a critical mass - or a lot of - publicity or there’s little point t0 them. I have no illusions
and I don’t like efforts that try to create them. This is going to be a very hard project turning capitalism around. But it can be turned around but I’m never going to suggest then anyone action or effort it’s going to be easy or even effective. Too many efforts
do that thinking that that’s the only way they can get people motivated. With promises of quick fixes. There’s no such thing. This is going to be a really long slog but if we admit that up front, and just continually build up our forces, and false multipliers, we
can build a very potent weapon no matter what direction we aim at.

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