23. Annoy Mouse:”…I would start an organization that promoted products that were produced by democracies that exhibited good governance. A consumer democracy would vote for a better world by voting with their wallets. Why buy something a little cheaper produced with slave labor when it puts your neighbor out of business and your property values sink? It is theroethically capable of working except that Americans would rather have thier filthy swag and a failed nation. He who dies with the most Chinese gadgets wins.”

Excellent idea, and one that we should expand upon. Actually, now is the time to buy American. We don’t need any more cheap crap – we can’t afford it economically or politically. If it isn’t made in the USA, or, if pressed, Canada, I will not buy it. Sure has cut down on impulse purchases. I do a lot of reading at the library, too – won’t buy books made elsewhere (that hurts).

Actually, I think there are a great many Americans who “get it” and who are ready to buy American, or from democracies. The American consumer is 75 percent of our economy. This is the same thing as voting – except with our wallets.

What we need is a stealth campaign to begin with, one on the order of the O campaign signs. Doesn’t take much to make a bunch of signs with a memorable tag line and stick them up around the country. And we all need to “just do it”! Who is John Galt?