We offer many thousands of sticker designs we for sale, covering political and social issues ranging from gay marriage to members of Congress to religious heresy and right back down to this lingering question we have: is “Bingo” the farmer or the dog? Because we offer so many thousands of possibilities, the choices that people make about which of our bumper stickers to buy from month to month offer a glimpse of the passing zeitgeist, the collective conscience, the weltanschauung of the moment, so zu sagen.
With the end of the month approaching, it’s a good time to look at how the swag’s been swinging. The following are our top ten selling bumper stickers for November of 2009:
1. Question Authority. The saying remains applicable no matter which party is in power, don’t you know.
2. I Support President Obama. Because, FOX News appearances aside, there are still a lot of people in this country who do.
3. Another Old White Woman for Barack Obama. The bumper sticker started out as an don’t-pigeonhole-me alternative to the gender and racial polarization of the Clinton-Obama primary fight, but has remained pretty darned popular over time. Does that indicate that gender and race are still issues regarding the Obama presidency that people feel the need to counter?
4. Value All Families… it needs to be said, especially in yet another election where not all families were valued by voters. (See “Maine,” “Disappointment”)
5. Defend Marriage from Republican Bigots. See above. Who do they think they are to tell everyone else who can get married and who can’t?
6. Health Care for All, a bumper sticker that emerges as players in DC fight over whether this will actually come to pass.
7. Turn Off Your TV and Think: but wait, that’s not what Katie Couric said…
8. Jesus would heal the sick / Health Care Reform Now. Or what, do you think he would ask for proof of insurance first?
9. Is it Vietnam Yet? Sure, they call it “Iraq,” and it’s boxier-looking on the map, but it’s looking more like a quagmire every day…
10. The Thing Worse Than the Rebellion is the Thing that Causes the Rebellion, a saying by Frederick Douglass that still rings true, a century and a half later.
