I think you’ll find that most people replying to you are in basic agreement with you. American consumers need to spend money at responsible businesses. But American worker’s wages have been stagnant for 30 years while cost of living has gone up exponentially. That is the underlying issue here that needs to be…

It’s entirely possible I misunderstood OP’s intent. It seemed to me they were saying that organizing unions wasn’t going to do any good until the American consumer takes responsibility and only rewards companies that do business ethically. I think organizing unions is exactly what would give consumers the freedom to…

If working Americans had more spendable money in their pockets they would be able to afford products from companies they like. Seems like more unions would solve this issue as well.

Oh my god I do the arm thing too! I raise them straight up in the air and go back and forth lightly tracing my fingers up and down them. Really freaks my husband out!

I’ve always been confused by the argument that Hillary changing positions on issues to match the current political climate is a negative. Isn’t it the job of our elected officials to do what the majority of their electorate wants them to? Instead of doing what they would like to do? So if their electorate was against…

Oh I agree it’s manipulative and am generally against large public proposals for that reason. But the OP was calling hypocrisy using the response to the Olympic proposal which was a different beast. I believe their point would have been better served using a different example.

The Olympic medalist was being praised for her individual accomplishment in a possibly once in a lifetime moment. The Beyoncé dancer was basically at her job. An awesome job that I’m sure she worked her ass of to get but it was probably just another show to her until then.