How to Fight Back?

Wokeness is all over. It's not just among the vocal left extremists. For quite a while the hypocritical Hollywood-types have joined. Of course, so have the colleges and universities, not to mention many of the K-12 public schools. Toss in professional sports, the latest being Major League Baseball. Corporate America, for whatever reasons, has signed up, too. On Saturday, 100 CEOs of leading US corporations met virtually "to discuss state voting laws." What the heck is that? Some, such as airlines, social media outlets, etc., have already exposed their wokenesss. Most, in their letters of explanation, have also exposed their ignorance. They displayed a lack of historical knowledge and of understanding the GA law. They also demonstrated limited abilities to think, to analyze and reason, instead resorting to knee jerk reactions based, mainly, on lies and distortions. Many Americans are unhappy with such wokeness. But how can they fight back? Will boycotts work? That seems dubious at best. Who's going to really give up their favorite NFL team(s)? Who will turn off the boob tube? People can't boycott everything; they need to buy things to live. So, how to fight back against this? People say they will "vote with their pocketbooks/wallets." I doubt that will happen. Oh, for a while they might give up their Diet Coke, not watch a ball game, etc. Will such behavior last? Color me skeptical. Is there anyway to take legal actions against the wokesters? I don't know. I am not a lawyer (and don't even play one on television). I haven't researched this at all. In fact, I've just started thinking about it. I wouldn't know where to begin. Perhaps someone a lot more intelligent than I am might eventually have some ideas. Maybe a class action lawsuit against Google or Twitter or You Tube or whoever else bans people due to their political views, i.e., opposition to wokeism is a possibility. Congress and the red states might increase the corporate tax rates, just on the largest companies. (Imagine the Republicans in the Senate calling Biden, Schumer, and Pelosi and telling them they wouldn't be opposed to a large increase in the corporate tax rate! I can see the Democrats salivating now.) Exempt small businesses. I know a tax on corporations is really a tax on consumers, the increases merely passed on in the form of higher prices. Maybe, though, higher prices will actually cause buyers to purchase less. With profits down, stockholders might then hold CEOs and other upper management (the wokesters) accountable for their ignorant stances. Maybe it's time for the CEOs of the large corporation to realize the time of the Republicans "having their back," regardless of their wokeness, is over. Of course, that would take a little courage and initiative from Establishment Republicans. I'm not holding my breath. Lawsuits for libel/slander? I don't know. But the wokesters willfully spreading distortions and lies have harmed a good number of people, costing them money, jobs, and more. Can, in the judicial system, the wokesters be made to try to prove their assertions of bigotry, racism, "white supremacy." etc.? And, if they can't, can they be made to pay, to make the accused/aggrieved persons whole? I heard an interesting, but disturbing thought the other day. (Gee, what else is new these days?) Some pundit suggested Major League Baseball moved its All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver because it feared players would boycott the game. That is, the All-Stars would refuse to play as some ill-thought protest against the Georgia election law. I have two thoughts on that, one I've expressed before. If the players are going to protest by not playing the All-Star Game in Atlanta, will they play regular season games there? If so, why? Could it be they might have to forfeit games that mean something? Might they also have to forfeit pay? Hey c'mon, principles can only take you so far. Now we might be talking about money. And why is Major League Baseball letting ignorant people influence what it does? How many of these players who might boycott an All-Star Game really know what's in the Georgia law? How many have actually read parts of it, let alone all of it? I think we know the answers to those questions. I'd guess they just believe the distortions and lies put out there by Democrats, including the President (Remember, even the Washington Post gave Biden four Pinocchios for his lies about the law). They don't consider the reasoned rebuttals to the lies. If this pundit's theory is correct, isn't that a wonderful way to run an organization, letting the most ignorant of people sway the decisions? And one last thing. Even when it's shown that people have willfully distorted and lied about the Georgia law (among other things), they don't recant. No, they don't regroup and say, "Oops! We were wrong." No, they continue to lie. What was it Nazi minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels said, "A lie told once is still a lie. A lie told a thousand times becomes the truth." These people have no shame. Caught in lie after lie, they never apologize, but double down on their lying. "Shame." Now there's a word I may have to write about in the near future before it becomes obsolete. Oh, while I'm still at it. Joe Biden called the Georgia voting law "Jim Crow 2.0." Of course that's a blatant distortion, a lie. But, I don't at all doubt Biden has little if any idea of what "Jim Crow" actually was. If he did, how can he compare the Georgia law with the discriminatory and penal laws of the post-Civil War South? If he did, how can he compare requiring a photo ID to vote to the lynching and other acts of terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan, Knights of the White Camelia, and other such hateful groups? No, I'm convinced we have a President who is a very ignorant man. And a major problem with that is many Americans are ignorant enough to believe him (and others who deliberately spread untruths).