Ben Cohen
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And, you know, we've been saying, no, Ben & Jerry's is the victim here.
If you do want to boycott something, other Magnum products, that would be the thing to stop buying in protest.
You know, there's more and more.
people asking us to start a boycott.
And we've been kind of resisting that, hoping that Magnum is going to see the light, but it's harder and harder to hold back that impetus.
My guess is that a boycott is going to happen at some time.
No, I don't think the Democratic Party is getting it.
I think that there are a few politicians that...
that end up running as Democrats that get it.
You know, there's, of course, Bernie, there's Mamdani, there's a guy, Tallarico, in Texas, and a guy in Maine, Plattner, that are running on platforms that are about justice and running the country in a way that benefits
the huge majority of people in the country instead of just the donors.
I mean, the politicians in general in the country don't represent the people, they represent the money.
That's a huge problem.
I think you can.
You know, it's interesting.
I was recently reading a book of quotes from Robert F. Kennedy.
called Make Gentle the Life of This World.
Looking at those quotes, what he was focused on was pretty much the issue of poverty and racism.
It was beautiful to read what he was saying about how
In our country, we can't have people that are hungry, that we can't have people that can't afford a decent place to live.