Public Square: An Alternative to Subsidizing Your Own Destruction
You have to hand it to the Left. They are a clever bunch.
They take your tax dollars and use them to promote abortion, DEI in the military, and reverse discrimination.
They take the tuition money you saved to educate your children or your tax dollars, and then they use it to turn your child’s values inside out. They abandon honor classes, higher math, or anything that might leave someone behind. That which the lowest achievers can learn now becomes the upper limit of what your children can achieve.
Merit and achievement are replaced with “equity”, or equal results for people of unequal talent.
You simply want to buy some new kitchen accouterments at Target and you wind up promoting transgenderism. Your intention was to buy a skillet, not endorse the idea that men can have menstrual cycles.
You take the family to the movies and wind up getting a full dose of militant feminism and nihilism.
You decide to help the Canadian truckers and find out Go Fund Me has seized the money.
Banks may decline your business or close your account if you might wish to purchase or sell firearms.
On almost every label, corporations pander to “sustainability”, zero carbon emissions, or ESG goals.
The fact that many of these conditions can hardly be escaped is one problem. More galling is that your tax dollars, your commercial dollars, are being mobilized against you. You are forced to subsidize your own destruction.
But at least half the country voted Republican, and perhaps even more really don’t sympathize with the hard Left. Yet finding alternatives is difficult.
Conservatives though are starting to strike back.
The movement towards school choice is one of the earliest and most important developments.
But in the commercial realm, the changes are more recent and less well-developed.
The most recent example of the Bud Light fiasco is instructive. Here, Conservatives simply refused to buy the product and did so almost spontaneously and independently from any centralized direction. But since InBev, the Belgian parent of Anheuser Busch owns hundreds of brands, you just might wind up buying from the same offending company.
If you switch from Target to Kohl’s, you still are giving your money to a company that has supports Left wing causes. And in most cases, you will wind up buying Chinese products, which is another way of subsidizing your own destruction.
As a result, Conservatives are now developing new channels of commerce and new sources of news and entertainment.
Daily Wire is producing not just podcasts, but movies and cartoons for children. Hopefully, some of this will take the market position once held by Disney before they decided to become the purveyors of DEI, militant feminism, and transgenderism. As to the last two, apparently, they don’t see the contradiction.
The success of songs like “Rich Man North of Richmond” is streamed by millions, even with disapproving comments from our cultural betters.
Entrepreneurs are beginning to notice there is a hunger to get away from doing business with companies that are so busy being “woke” that they have forgotten to service their clients.
This is causing two commercial trends to develop. First, some companies are beginning to shy away from overt politicization and ESG goals. Secondly, new channels of commerce are being developed that may make it easier to buy the goods you need and not subsidize the woke.
We have seen isolated examples such as Black Rifle Coffee or the ubiquitous My Pillow. But no one has really drawn together in one place an integrated marketplace.
In that regard, one of the most exciting developments is Public Square or PublicSq.com which had its Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange on July 20th with the ticker symbol PSQH. The company’s founder and CEO is Michael Seifert. The idea is to connect Conservative clients with Conservative businesses so they can help each other.
In 13 months since its nationwide launch, PublicSq. Consumer Members and Businesses on Platform now exceed 1.4 million and 65,000, respectively, as of July 31st. Public Square is an online distribution network somewhat along the lines of Amazon. You should go to PublicSq.com and start getting familiar with their offerings.
Here at The Prickly Pear, we are part of the movement of citizen journalism to break the monopolies of corporate-owned media. As such, while we can’t speak to the level of service of Public Square, we certainly endorse the idea of new and independent channels of commerce.
There is a vast market out there for good products, good services, and good commentary that does not require Conservatives to subsidize or support their own demise.
Other businesses are likely to form in this area and we hope we will be able to inform you of their efforts as well. For the time being, go to PublicSq.com and give their product lines and partners a look.
It will take a little work at first. We too will admit to the convenience and habit of going to Amazon but just remember, Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post, one of the most dreadful left-wing newspapers in the country.
If new business channels are going to develop, Conservatives will have to take the time and make the effort to patronize companies that support American freedom and prosperity.
