The Whole Foods boycott and modern liberalism
Posted on | September 2, 2009 | Comments Off by Aschwin de Wolf
Commenting on the call for a boycott of Whole Foods by liberal activists, Donald J. Boudreaux draws attention to the double standard of modern liberals when it concerns voting with one’s dollars:
How hypocritical. Persons who seek greater government control over health care proudly exercise their ability to vote with their dollars to avoid patronizing a store run by a chief executive whose opinion they dislike. Yet the very opinion that they so fiercely dislike is one that, should it be heeded, would enhance the ability of health-care consumers to vote with their dollars.
This should not be surprising. Modern liberalism is a tortuous attempt to reconcile a commitment to individual choice and the demands of egalitarianism, or less charitably, individual choice and the desire for power.
John Mackey on reforming health care.
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