The Church of Anti-Walmart
Posted by Adam Graham in : Idaho Conservative, TheJackson Smith hadn’t blogged in 247 days. I had his blog in my Bloglines and was shocked when I saw an entry and it was eye catching. He ran into a fellow liberal at Walmart and melodrama resulted:
I can’t tell you who it was…we made an oath in the store to never reveal our identities, though in telling this story I realize I am revealing the fact that I was in fact in Wal-Mart…
This person I ran into happens to be one of the most die-hard Democrats I know. So, as I was pulling out of the parking lot, which if possible, I hate more than the store itself, I was thinking — what if all the Democrats in the United States stopped shopping at Wal-Mart? Couldn’t we put them out of business?
As soon as I find another store in P-Town that sells Diet IBC Root Beer, I’m breaking loose of the Wal-Mart bond.
If all the Democrats stopped shopping at Walmart, you guys would have less money, which would then be blamed on George W. Bush. You know this sounds like a weird religious cult. Like one of those ultra-fundamentalists churches you read about where you try and hide things from the pastor.
I’m imaging Mr. Smith and his friend inside the store promising to make sure Julie Fanselow or the Chairman of the Democratic Party doesn’t find out.
Not going to Walmart is in fact a sacred ceremony for the left in which they assert their superiority over the Wal-mart shopping, bargain-seeking masses and apparently, woe be to the backslider.
Comment by binkyboy [Visitor]
Superiority nothing, we’d just rather see profits go to companies that support workers and worker’s rights. A corporate behemoth that destroys small businesses and takes pride in busting any attempts to unionize is abundently anti-liberal.
Why celebrate it? Why allow a company that would have been busted for crimes 20 years ago get away with it day after day?
Comment by Adam Graham [Member]
No, liberals shouldn’t at Wal-Mart, they should buy from over-priced green retail outlets so that they have no extra money to support liberal causes.
Please, Binky, don’t go to Wal-mart. Don’t get the best price. Also, please don’t hurt Mr. Jackson Smith, he is repenting of his wal-mart heresy and is indeed quite sorry.
Comment by binkyboy [Visitor]
Saving a small amount of money or saving jobs and communities? Hmm, the choice seems pretty easy to me.
Then again, I’m not always a selfish prick, I tend to think of the people around me and the end effect of my actions.
Comment by Andrea Graham [Member]
Wal-mart’s behavior baffles me. In trying to appease both left and right, they effectively have both the left and the right (minus my frugal-minded husband) raving mad at them.
Comment by binkyboy [Visitor]
Andrea,
I’m don’t think the general “left” is mad at Wal-Mart, I think they find their methods to be far less than democratic and far too selfish. Most elistist liberals, which is what Adam is gearing this rant towards, have higher disposable incomes and tend to buy healthier and more consciously and some see that as snobbery. I’ve found that since I pay more for organics and less packaged products that I’m far healthier and happier and I require much less.
What I would like to see, however, is another matter. I’d like to see Wal-Mart back off of unionization and I’d like it to be more honest about the wages it pays to it’s employees and the benefits that it provides. I’ve been watching the decline of worker’s rights for many years now, and I find there is reason to be nervous and sometimes alarmed about employer/employee relationships. Wal-Mart just tends to be one of the most visible offenders and so draws the most flak.
As for their support of homosexual causes, I believe it’s just a PR move and until they can provide open benefits to partners, I’m not going to praise them for it.
Comment by oatney [Member]
Well sue me, I don’t like Wal-Mart either…
Comment by Andrea Graham [Member]
Binky: by raving mad, I meant unwilling to shop there for political reasons. BTW, Wal-mart has organics and a full deli. My main point is they’re alienating a customer base while trying to appease those who can’t be appeased.
*sweet, calm tone of voice* Adam, can you explain why low prices at any cost is moral, again, please?
Comment by Adam Graham [Member]
My answer is that we are no more supporting Wal-Mart’s homosexual stances than Nick is support South Dakota Referred Law 6 by WhereIStand paying me. We live in the economy and unless a boycott’s going to change something, why bother ith? I’d rather have more money to give for the Ten Commandments and Referred Law than these causes get less money, so that I can throw a fit at Wal-Mart.