{"id":122820,"date":"2020-11-30T02:25:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T23:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/buy-local-is-just-nonsense-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2020-11-30T02:25:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T23:25:17","slug":"buy-local-is-just-nonsense-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/buy-local-is-just-nonsense-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Buy local&#8217; is just nonsense and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a1c712bcc6\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a1c712bcc6\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/buy-local-is-just-nonsense-and-other-commentary\/#Econ_desk_%E2%80%98Buy_Local_Is_Just_Nonsense\" >Econ desk: \u2018Buy Local\u2019 Is Just Nonsense<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/buy-local-is-just-nonsense-and-other-commentary\/#Iconoclast_Goodbye_Lefty_Dreams\" >Iconoclast: Goodbye, Lefty Dreams<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/buy-local-is-just-nonsense-and-other-commentary\/#From_the_right_Why_Beijing_Is_Delighted\" >From the right: Why Beijing Is Delighted<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/buy-local-is-just-nonsense-and-other-commentary\/#Russiagate_watch_Flynn_Deserved_a_Pardon\" >Russiagate watch: Flynn Deserved a Pardon<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/buy-local-is-just-nonsense-and-other-commentary\/#Conservative_Stop_the_Holocaust_Comparisons\" >Conservative: Stop the Holocaust Comparisons<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#&#8217;Buy local&#8217; is just nonsense and other commentary<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/small-business-saturday.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Econ_desk_%E2%80%98Buy_Local_Is_Just_Nonsense\"><\/span>Econ desk: \u2018Buy Local\u2019 Is Just Nonsense<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The holiday-shopping injunction to \u201cbuy local or buy from small businesses . . . is pure nonsense,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/11\/shopping-superstitions\/\">opines Kevin D. Williamson at National \u00adReview<\/a>. The idea is that if you patronize, \u201csay, your locally owned coffee shop over Starbucks, then the money you spend there will somehow stay in the community.\u201d But that isn\u2019t \u201chow money works: Most businesses spend most of what they take in and then put the rest in the bank, where it becomes global capital.\u201d Nor do local businesses themselves spend \u00adlocally: His own coffee shop \u201cdoes not buy its coffee locally, because I do not live in Colombia or Brazil or Vietnam, and it doesn\u2019t buy its to-go cups from a local maker, since it is not in the shadow of a paper-goods factory.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Iconoclast_Goodbye_Lefty_Dreams\"><\/span>Iconoclast: Goodbye, Lefty Dreams<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>So much for the dream of a truly progressive Joe Biden administration, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/951630\/biden-giving-left-nothing-investment\">sneers The Week\u2019s Matthew Walther<\/a>: \u201cWe\u2019re getting a fluent French speaker whose band has songs on Spotify [incoming Secretary of State Antony Blinken], a supporter of the Iraq War and architect of our disastrous intervention in Libya [incoming Defense Secretary Mich\u00e8le Flournoy] and even John Kerry again.\u201d More \u201cgood\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> for the left: \u201cMcKinsey and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and Goldman Sachs in charge of economic policy again. The likely return of pseudo-academic diversity training to the federal workforce, a much-deserved stimulus to one of the only growing sectors of the economy. A return to the good old days when Iran got paid to build nukes instead of having to fund this vital project all on its own.\u201d Should the left care? \u201cIf you believe, as I do, that most of the talk from the left about workers and the environment is a lot of guff and that their only real priorities are abortion and making life better for the upwardly mobile white professionals .\u2009.\u2009. the answer is no.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"From_the_right_Why_Beijing_Is_Delighted\"><\/span>From the right: Why Beijing Is Delighted<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping must be \u201cfeeling pretty good right now,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/editorials\/joe-bidens-national-security-picks-are-great-news-for-china\">warn the editors of the Washington Examiner<\/a>. The president-elect and the people t<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed to staff his administration, after all, have a \u201cflaccid\u201d record when it comes to \u201cstanding up for our interests\u201d against Beijing and its clients, most notably Tehran. \u201cWorse, Biden is evidently \u00adreluctant even to identify China for what it is \u2014 a Communist dictatorship that seeks to displace\u201d Washington as the preeminent global power.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Russiagate_watch_Flynn_Deserved_a_Pardon\"><\/span>Russiagate watch: Flynn Deserved a Pardon<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cEvery American deserves the same protections under the law \u2014 even those who work for Donald Trump,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2020-11-26\/trump-was-right-to-pardon-michael-flynn\">declares Bloomberg Opinion\u2019s Eli Lake.<\/a> And that\u2019s why \u201cTrump was right to pardon Michael Flynn.\u201d Just \u201cread the Justice Department\u2019s summary of its interview with FBI agent William Barnett on Sept. 17, 2020.\u201d Barnett, the \u201ccase agent on the Flynn investigation,\u201d wanted to drop the case in December 2016, convinced \u201cthat Flynn did not collude or conspire with Russia\u201d during the campaign. \u201cBut his efforts were stymied, first by the FBI\u2019s leadership and later by the office of special counsel Robert Mueller.\u201d Barnett says he was \u201cdeliberately excluded\u201d from the FBI interview of Flynn on Jan. 24, 2017, initiated by James Comey. Flynn eventually \u201cpleaded guilty to making false statements in that interview,\u201d though the FBI agents \u201cdid not think the interview with Flynn was incriminating.\u201d Mueller threatened Flynn to get his cooperation on a \u201ccollusion\u201d probe that went nowhere.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conservative_Stop_the_Holocaust_Comparisons\"><\/span>Conservative: Stop the Holocaust Comparisons<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2020\/11\/holocaust-analogies-and-twenty-first-century-victimhood\">Melissa Langsam Braunstein at First Things<\/a> has had enough of careless Holocaust comparisons: \u201cWhatever problems one sees in 2020 America, we\u2019re not living in Nazi Germany.\u201d Anti-vaccination protesters have equated masks to the Jews\u2019 yellow stars, and Trump detractors have \u00adlabeled the outgoing president a new Hitler. But \u201cresurgent anti-Semitism\u201d is a real problem, and \u201cinsult is added to injury when people use Jewish suffering to cement their own victim status.\u201d It\u2019s all the more galling that those casting themselves as victims of a new Nazism \u201care typically MIA when living Jews are stigmatized, harassed or murdered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board\u00a0<\/em>\n            <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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