If I were president I'd shut down Starbucks. Why? Two reasons. The main reason is simply because I don't like them and the second reason is to reach across the aisle. I know how much leftists love some good old fashioned fascism so I'll shut down Starbucks first and then take suggestions for other types of businesses to close. Birkenstocks have never appealed to me either.
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I had tossed the comments above into a conversation with a very liberal friend in order to get her reaction. She looked at me like I was a Martian. A bit lost for words she finally said, "You can't do that, it's un-American".
You can guess how the rest of the story goes. She had never heard of Operation Choke Point and the thousands of businesses shut down by the Obama administration for no other reason than they just didn't like them. Apparently CNN had missed that little nugget of news. After a few minutes she decided I was making the story up, it was just too outrageous.
"Pull out your phone and look it up for yourself", was my response. Again, more silence as she read the stories in disbelief.
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It's fine and dandy to protest at Starbucks, lots of reasons to do so. But turning it into a teachable moment would go much further towards opening closed minds.
