Generate Your Own Political Bumper Sticker For 2008 Election
A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that a presidential election is all about the presidential candidates. It’s not. A presidential campaign is about the voters. An election is the process by which citizens get representation in the government.
Which presidential candidate gets elected determines who will get represented. The promise that presidential candidates make, that they will represent all the American people, is a sham. That’s just not how it works in practice. George W. Bush has represented corporate America, not American workers. He’s represented polluters, not environmentalists. He’s represented Creationists, not science teachers.
Supporting a progressive presidential candidate means supporting progressive constituencies as well. That’s why it’s so important to identify, on a candidate bumper sticker, exactly which constituency of support you represent. Are you with environmentalists for John Edwards? Then say so, and you’ll be supporting both John Edwards and environmentalism.
Because it’s impossible for anyone to identify all the progressive constituencies (we’re a diverse bunch), Irregular Times has developed a special method through which you can create your own 2008 election bumper sticker, using their templates to support Hillary Clinton, John Edwards or Barack Obama. You add the text to show who it is that is giving support to your candidate of choice.
You might show, for example, that your small village supports a certain presidential candidate, as in the case of this Trumansburg for Obama bumper sticker, even though Trumansburg is a town of under two thousand inhabitants. No one else is going to do that for you, guaranteed.
Locality is the luxury. Particularity is the new power. Express your individual political location even as you support your national campaign of preference.
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