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Boycotts are as American as apple pie . . . with whole wheat crust.
Granted, the term boycott comes from Charles C. Boycott, an English land agent who got in a fracas with Irish tenant farmers over rents in 1880. Laborers refused to harvest Boycott's potatoes. Shopkeepers in the towns wouldn't trade with him. Even the postman declined to deliver his mail.
To bring people in to harvest the potatoes cost the British government, Boycott, and others over £10,000 — for spuds worth £350. In December of that year, Boycott left the Emerald Isle.
So, apparently, 100 years earlier, when American...
Boycotting good ideas?
A pathetic trick utilized by the desperate is when you can't 'win' an argument on facts, then demonize your opponents. Whether you agree or disagree with Mackey is practically tangential at this point, the fact is having an opinion that might(egads)conflict with the official line has become tantamount to treason. Things can't end well with this philosophy. I mean, if they start to demand political conformity from their grocers, where will it end? Eventually, they'll have to round up all the other 'threats' out there, won't they?