What are the other objections to NODDD?
[back to Jesse]: You can read them all by scanning on our comment responses for “N /” (those who answered ‘no’ to the first question on whether you support the boycott or not). The most common objection is that NODDD will not be effective — which is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If everyone thought that it would be ineffective, it would BECOME ineffective. If enough people participate, that IS effectiveness. It’s the level of participation that marks the effectiveness, not whether we make a dent in the GDP for the day. A related objection, the one which is most common on right-wing blogs, is that a counter-protest is to spend money on Jan. 20. I would consider anyone who intentionally spends extra cash on Inauguration Day as yielding to our protest — we will have caused them to counterbalance us.
[back to Jesse]: You can read them all by scanning on our comment responses for “N /” (those who answered ‘no’ to the first question on whether you support the boycott or not). The most common objection is that NODDD will not be effective — which is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If everyone thought that it would be ineffective, it would BECOME ineffective. If enough people participate, that IS effectiveness. It’s the level of participation that marks the effectiveness, not whether we make a dent in the GDP for the day. A related objection, the one which is most common on right-wing blogs, is that a counter-protest is to spend money on Jan. 20. I would consider anyone who intentionally spends extra cash on Inauguration Day as yielding to our protest — we will have caused them to counterbalance us. They, too, would be participating in Not One Damn Dime Day, by making our protest more loudly heard, and more important for the press to report on, and more likely that Bush will acknowledge u
