Copout. If the country could provide better, it would. Signs like this scream, "hey look at me I'm cooler and smarter than the rest of you peasants who like these candidates", which in itself is the same pathetic-ness, because you want your opinion on that particular topic, to be known so badly.
This is a big part of it. It’s not as bad as most people make it, or rather it’s not really that bad in the ways most people complain about (it’s much worse in others), but people take politics more personally because the expansion of government has made it more personal.
1788 or before. We haven't even always had secret ballot. However the making it your entire identity seems to be a rather new, stupid development.
Thanks a lot Obama.
Probably social media. You can easily tell who someone is going to vote for based on their political views even if they don't say it.
FIFY - The MEDIA and the internet have made politics into tribalism.
Nor did their politics or sports team preferences affect their decisions of commerce.
Me and my truck are for Amy Tuck
Abortion with no exemptions could grow by leaps and bounds today given the laws several states are voting on. They are intentionally very vaguely written with no definitions so as to leave interpretation up to the courts. A very dangerous thing to do.
Don’t lie. You wouldn’t have said anything if someone else had posted it.
Correct.
Do you have the least self-awareness of any human in history?
Unless you are in a state that mandates HOAs allow political signs, how is that unenforceable? I thought this issue has come up and been decided both ways in different places.
You beat me to it. That might be the best one ever.
People live in completely different realities depending on the media they consume. In some realities, a woman from Georgia died because she couldn't get an abortion. In other realities, she died because of malpractice by a combination of health providers. Most people pick one of the other without having any real information on which news providers are lying. Insome realities, a minor was raped and doctors refused to allow plan b or any other treatment to terminate the pregnancy because of Indiana abortion law. IN other realities, a minor was raped by her mother's live-in illegal alien boyfriend and she didn't get care early because the mother didn't want to address the fact that her boyfriend had sex with her daughter, and when somebody that's a mandatory reporter actually got involved, they made a political statement rather than caring for the minor.
If I were running for office I wouldn't even have my own yard sign in my yard, I hate those damn things
Nuance is dead. We tidy uncomfortable topics into neat little buckets of right/wrong, good/evil, etc. This helps some people not interested or not capable in complex thought make a decision and sleep better at night. But the biggest winners are the politicians who run their campaigns catered to that. As a result, we have a voting population convinced they are inherently good while the opposite is the dark side. I've have to end friendships (not many fortunately) bc my eternity was judged to belong in hell solely due to political opinion.
When we allowed politicians to convince us that "they" are all evil and we can just write off half the country as less than because we are in a perpetual existential culture war that must be won at all costs. I can't know who to hate if I don't know who is on my side in the war, and God knows our political identity is the most important thing in our lives.
Just last night I mentioned this bumper sticker slogan to one of my kids when we were talking about memorable political slogans.
