{"id":399935,"date":"2021-04-08T12:28:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T16:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=399935"},"modified":"2021-04-08T12:28:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T16:28:38","slug":"shapiro-past-time-to-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-past-time-to-fight-back\/","title":{"rendered":"SHAPIRO: Past Time To Fight Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshapiro-past-time-to-fight-back%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=399935&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-909.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This week, on the basis of whole-cloth lies, major corporations went to political war with the state of Georgia. The lies at issue revolved around Georgia\u2019s new voter law, characterized by both Stacey Abrams and President Joe Biden as a new form of Jim Crow. What do these dastardly new voter restrictions do? They require an ID number to receive an absentee ballot, with language identical to that of federal law; they bar electioneering within 150 feet of a polling place or 25 feet of voters in line, including handing out food or water for partisan purposes; they increase the number of mandatory days of weekend early voting; they preserve some drop boxes that did not exist before the pandemic; they require additional voting machines and election personnel in crowded precincts; they increase voting hours in future elections for the vast majority of counties.<\/p>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">These provisions are similar to the laws in a vast majority of states. That didn\u2019t stop Democrats and the media from simply lying about the Georgia voting law. While some in the media did point out that Biden had lied about the law\u2019s supposed crackdown on voting hours, nobody in the media treated his \u201cJim Crow\u201d contentions with the sneering disrespect they so richly deserved. Instead, they simply parroted the line that Republicans were engaged in widespread voter suppression, another lie \u2014 a lie far more unsubstantiated than Republican concerns about voter fraud and irregularity.<\/p>\n<div id=\"content_btf_wrapper\" data-wrapper=\"content_btf\" readability=\"60\">\n<div class=\"adunitlabel\" readability=\"15\">\n<p>But&nbsp;<span class=\"column--highlighted-text\">the media and Democrats went even further: They bullied corporations into taking positions on the Georgia election law.<\/span>&nbsp;CBS News put out a headline that trafficked in simple activism: \u201c3 ways companies can help fight Georgia\u2019s restrictive new voting law.\u201d And companies complied. Coca-Cola, in line with its new Woka-Cola branding, issued a statement deploring an election law the corporation hadn\u2019t bothered to lobby against before its passage. Delta issued a statement, too, with CEO Ed Bastian explaining, \u201cI need to make it clear that the final bill is unacceptable and does not match Delta\u2019s values.\u201d Major League Baseball followed Biden\u2019s advice and pulled the All-Star Game out of the state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Many conservatives \u2014 myself included \u2014 deplore the politics of boycotts. We\u2019re not interested in patronizing companies based on political differentiation alone. But if the left is going to hijack the most powerful institutions in America and then weaponize them against voters in red states, conservatives will be left with little choice but to exert counter-pressure.<\/p>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">The only alternative is the formation of alternative companies in every industry. If Coca-Cola wishes to cater to the woke, conservatives will need to build a competitor. Conservatives don\u2019t have first-mover advantage in these spaces. But that doesn\u2019t alleviate the responsibility to find a different path than funding those who would cut them off at the knees.<\/p>\n<p>The left has politicized everything. The right has avoided that tactic, because it\u2019s ugly and divisive. But it\u2019s too late to put the genie back in the bottle. It\u2019s time for mutually assured destruction. There\u2019s only one thing worse than having nuclear weapons: unilateral disarmament. Better to establish mutually assured destruction now and put corporate America on notice that, by stepping into the middle of fraught political debate, it risks just as much blowback from the right as from the left.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, on the basis of whole-cloth lies, major corporations went to political war with the state of Georgia. 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