Let\u2019s face it, we\u2019ve been betrayed.\u00a0 Not since that fateful night in Gethsemane has anyone been treated worse by \u201cfriends.\u201d\u00a0 I suppose if we were smart, we would shut up, play the woke playbook and start collecting CRT bonus points by attending a BLM riot in black bloc and burn down some poor neighbor\u2019s small business.\u00a0 That would be the smart play.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen plenty of people do it.\u00a0 I can think of one particular fifty something white guy who has embraced the whole thing.\u00a0 He spends his work day giving training sessions in unconscious bias and white privilege.\u00a0 It truly is enough to turn your stomach.\u00a0 So, I guess I\u2019m really not smart.<\/p>\n
Good.\u00a0 I\u2019ve picked my side.\u00a0 Now what?\u00a0 Well, how about make the most of it.\u00a0 Last Saturday I had the first meet up with the local group of deplorables.\u00a0 Just some of the guys who were the Coffee Walk back during the 2016 election and their wives.\u00a0 We had some good food and spent the night talking about life.\u00a0 Kids and grandkids, work and family, even a little bit of politics.\u00a0 It was pretty damn great.\u00a0 We enjoyed it so much we\u2019re already planning the next one.<\/p>\n
And the on-line equivalent of that is the comments I get on this site.\u00a0 I send out my thoughts and if they resonate with someone, he tells me what he thinks.\u00a0 Now, I\u2019ve never met any of these folks in the flesh but we can talk, we can share opinions maybe compare experiences.\u00a0 I find this enjoyable, worthwhile.\u00a0 I wish there were a thousand times more of you all out there.\u00a0 I especially like when you talk to each other.\u00a0 That really is the final goal, creating a network.<\/p>\n
Taking this to its logical conclusion, smart people should be organizing a platform where this network can be focused on creating some concrete progress toward advancing our social and political goals.\u00a0 As a for instance, suppose there was an effort to harness tens of millions of consumers to support or boycott some company based on its behavior toward our constituency.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take Coca Cola as a for instance.\u00a0 Imagine if one hundred million people coordinated a boycott of Coca Cola for a whole year.\u00a0 I think it just might drive them out of business.\u00a0 But even if it didn\u2019t, the damage that would be done to that company would frighten the hell out of all the other Fortune 500 companies.\u00a0 And the same kind of action supporting a company that treats our people with respect would have an equally powerful effect.<\/p>\n