Buy Blue this Christmas

What’s a Democrat to do during this holiday season? Still depressed that all that work and all your contributions still left you on the short end of 51-48? For some, shopping can bring you some cheer. Maybe it can bring you even more if you educate yourself about how the businesses that you buy from choose to use that money in pursuing their own political agendas. That’s the theory behind two web sites, BuyBlue.org and ChooseTheBlue.com.

For some businesses, giving a majority of their political dollars to the party in power is less of a political act than it is a practical reality. The majority rules, and if you want to grease the wheels of government, that’s where your money is going to go. Others have political agendas as well, and they may promote them aggressively with their corporate contributions, and they do.

But at the same time, it is every consumer’s right to make their purchasing decisions however they please. Price, product quality, and good service are obvious factors in most buying decisions. And if you choose to dig a little deeper, and care to look at how a company uses your shopping dollar in the political arena before you give it to them, you certainly should.

thanks to Nels for sharing these with me