One might not be much for standalone quotes (as they’re often taken out of context), but Anna Lappé’s observation about consumer choice is, in-and-of-itself, wholly right:
Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
Yes, indeed.
No clique, no faction, no party, no political authority is an electorate even a fraction so large as all people of a community daily buying and selling.