Bring Back the Dark Ages. Vote Republican.
Every now and then, I come across a bumper sticker design so apt, and yet so evocatively disturbing, that I both want to put it on the back of my car right away and am afraid even to look at it again. That’s the case with the bumper sticker you see here, which has the simple message: Bring Back the Dark Ages. Vote Republican.
Stop and think historically for just a minute and you’ll see the clear connections between the right wing’s ideology and the Dark Ages. The Republican agenda is essentially motivated by a medieval way of thinking, and the consequences we suffer are like the suffering of the Dark Ages.
War. Ignorance. Lack of progress. Persecution. Torture. Inability to fight disease. Lack of preparation for disaster. Fear. Centralized power. Theocracy.
Line up the world that the Republicans threaten to bring us alongside the Dark Ages, and they match with frightening accuracy. Thus, the words of this bumper sticker strike deep: Bring Back the Dark Ages. Vote Republican.
The design is elegant as it is creepy. The color scheme suggests something ancient, as the image is ancient, a medieval danse macabre image of two skeletons with a priest leading another person off to their doom.
Bright and cheery, it is not. Yet, the message gets through, loud and clear.
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