It’s borderline disconcerting to see someone diagnose almost everything wrong with American politics in a single mighty blog post, but–let’s face it–if anyone was going to do it, it was probably going to be Radley Balko (or Gene Healy!).
Here’s how it went down: Balko points out the flaws of logic in the Whole Foods boycott supposedly gaining momentum after CEO John Mackey wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal laying out some health care reform alternatives short of socialization. Mackey haters take the ill-advised step of visiting Balko’s wonderful Agitator site to electronically shout at him. After a reasonable grace period, Balko hands them their backsides. (Which was followed up by another good summation at Reason.)
Crux:
Mackey didn’t deliberately offend his customers, as some have suggested. He didn’t spit in your face, or, as one commenter so delicately put it, he didn’t “squeeze a turd in [your] punch bowl.” He just overestimated you.
I think this is where a hip young lady of, say, five years ago would interject, “Oh, snap!”
