Writing about bumper stickers for progressives
From her academic appointment at Harvard, Elizabeth Warren has gone off-campus to lead congressional oversight of the Wall Street bailout. Warren is the one person most responsible for the existence of a new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. And now Elizabeth Warren has announced that she will run against incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown in [...]
It’s in the shape of a star, it’s got red and blue stripes – along with an overall red, white and blue color theme. It’s got a democratic political message too: Oppose the election of Mitt Romney as President in 2012.
Gabrielle Giffords is not a progressive politician. She’s a conservative Blue Dog Democrat who supported Republican policies as often as she stood by Democratic ones, and almost never adopted a purely liberal stance. But although she does not share this website’s political philosophy, we nonetheless feel that her decision to dedicate her life to public [...]
Fishing for the political zeitgeist? Try sinking your hook into this. The posters and bumper stickers you see below were the most popular items for sale in our collection of over 800 designs during the month of September 2010: One Person Can Make a Difference ( Poster ) Jesus Would Heal the Sick Bumper Sticker [...]
Dolphins yes, but more. One dollar from every sale is donated to a progressive organization, and another dollar is added to a Kiva fund to provide microloans to people in impoverished communities seeking to establish small enterprises to improve their lives.
Today, Representative Griffith announced that he’s switching political party constituencies from Democrat to Republican. Don’t expect to see a change in Griffith’s voting record, though. Griffith was already voting like he was a Republican.
The lapel sticker looks like a shorter form, a kind of political ping, a way of saying “Here I am, and here’s what I stand for.” I see more imagery and simple wording, declarations of support or opposition. A page of lapel stickers for Barack Obama provides an example with its very first sticker – the simple image of the face of Barack Obama, without any words. This sticker tells me that the face of Barack Obama has become an icon, representative of meaning in itself, a powerful cultural symbol that is regarded as needing no explanation.
Barack Obama opposed invading Iraq from the start. He’s not had to offer any apologies on this issue. He got it right from the start. Obama never caved in to the pro-war pressure from the Republicans. If that matters to you, then consider putting this Barack Obama campaign lawn sign out in your yard, to encourage people in your state to vote Obama for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2008.
Nationwide, online measures such as search engine statistics show a lackluster interest in the 2008 presidential campaign. On a national level, many people seem not to care much who the next President is, so long as it isn’t a Republican. Let’s cross our fingers and hope that personal displays of political interest, through objects like this lawn sign, encourages greater citizen participation at the state level.
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