Heading into fall of 2010, these are the nine political bumper stickers from our extensive progressive collection that have attracted the most recent traffic online:
Writing about bumper stickers for progressives
Heading into fall of 2010, these are the nine political bumper stickers from our extensive progressive collection that have attracted the most recent traffic online:
It was just yesterday that John Raese got the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate to replace Robert Byrd, but already there’s a political bumper sticker out declaring that John Raese is wrong for West Virginia. Why? What makes Raese the wrong choice?
How about this tidbit for starters: John Raese is supporting the ambitions of elite investors and top executives at coal companies at the expense of coal miners’ safety. Raese seems to have forgotten all about the deadly explosion at Massey’s Upper Big Branch coal mine this year. Instead of calling for increased safety regulations, Raese says he wants to “unshackle” management at companies like Massey.
We’ve seen what happens when coal executives are allowed to operate mines under lax regulation. Raese’s proposal to remove protections is a kick in the face of coal miners, when they’re already down.
What motivated Irregular Times to create the bumper sticker that reads: I love freedom more than I hate Islam / Leave the mosques alone?
This video asks the bumper sticker designer that question, and also – “Do you really hate Islam?”
What’s the opposite of coexistence? Domination. Suppression. Elimination. Extermination. Are these American values? Do we want them represented in Congress?
Allen West, the Republican Party nominee for Congress in Florida’s 22nd District, has made a speech publicly railing against the idea of coexistence:
As I was driving up here today, I saw that bumper sticker that absolutely incenses me. It’s not the Obama bumper sticker. But it’s the bumper sticker that says, ‘CoExist,’ and it has all the little religious symbols on it. And the reason why I get upset, and every time I see one of those bumper stickers, I look at the person inside that is driving. Because that person represents something that would give away our country. Would give away who we are, our rights and freedoms and liberties because they are afraid to stand up and confront that which is the antithesis, anathema of who we are. The liberties that we want to enjoy.
Watch the video of these remarks and you’ll see that Allen West makes these comments without the slightest sense of irony, which is quite sad. The “rights and freedoms and liberties” that are the foundation of American society are found in the Constitution. The very first freedoms are written in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reads:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
In other words, Government shall not be used as a cudgel for one group to dominate another, for one belief to suppress another, for one religion to eliminate another. The central idea of the U.S. Constitution, which is the Supreme Law of our Land (Article VI), is CoExistence of different people, of different religions, of different expressions, of different ideas.
The GOP’s new nominee Allen West stands against CoExistence.
Allen West stands against the idea of America.
If you are for the American value of coexistence, be against the election of Allen West this November.
Christians say that theirs is a religion of love, but Christians aren’t acting very loving as of late. They’re pushing for the extension of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They’re using the military to push their faith onto American soldiers. They’re campaigning against religious liberty for the followers of other religions.
The current anti-mosque crusade is just the newest part in Evangelical Christianity’s agenda of intolerance. The Christian Right may have a smile on its face, but its message is pure hate. This bumper sticker represents that attitude pretty well, with an evangelist who stands before you, with a happy face, holding a crucifix, asking, You don’t mind if I cram this down your throat a little bit, do you?
Do you mind? Golly, but I sure do.
Do you support the Constitution? Do you support the First Amendment? Do you support freedom of speech? Do you support freedom for everybody, not just for yourself, and not just for people you agree with?
If you support Free Speech, let the mosque be. You don’t have to like it. You don’t have to approve of it. In fact, it’s not your job to approve the mosque or not. It’s your job and my job as American citizens to support one another’s freedom.
Just let the mosque be. Is that too much to ask?
If your answer is “yes,” then I’d like to gently suggest that you have a fundamental problem with the idea of America.
It is a common thing for people to be skeptical of religions other than their own. Christians are atheists when it comes to believing in Vishnu. Muslims are happy to cast Buddhists as infidels. Neo-Pagans hug their mother goddess but spare no love for the Christian god Jesus.
It is much more rare for people to be skeptical of religion categorically. Yet, the Irregular Heresies collection comes close to this skeptical idea. They’re not out merely to promote their own gods over someone else’s. They’re skeptical and satirical of all divine beings and theologies – and skewer faith of all varieties, with verbal violence only, on a collection of heretical bumper stickers.
They’re mocking Jesus – Jesus, Schmeesus.
They’re profane for the Hindus and Buddhists too, singing Brahma Lama Ding Dong and declaring that Ganesha works for peanuts. Be Here Now, Bucko is the closest they get to Enlightenment.
They are infidels to Islam’s self-seriousness as well, challenging, Fatwa This!
My favorite strikes at the root of monotheism: Zoroaster Was A Disaster.
One bumper sticker sums up this perspective: Your sacred cow is my hamburger. No one entitled to expect that everyone else will show reverence for their supernatural beliefs. People will disagree with you. Pray on that for a while.
There are atheist bumper stickers… and then, there are atheist bumper sticker schemes.
It’s an atheist bumper sticker scheme that promises to deliver you the following simple atheist / skeptical message: I Don’t Believe. It’s available free from NewsBusters!

But, NewsBusters is a Christian-dominated, right wing web site. Why would it be giving away an atheist bumper sticker like this for free?
Well, it isn’t. Over at Irregular Times, they’re suggesting that you create the atheist bumper sticker from the free right wing media whining bumper sticker shown below. Just take a pair of scissors, and voila! The “liberal media” cliche is gone!

Spread the word to help defund a bunch of right wing windbags. Be a bumper buster!