Be there or be apathetic like Tiberi… your choice.

The truth is that when I think about shoppers, I don’t think about people who buy bumper stickers. I think about people who go to shopping malls and buy far too many clothes for themselves.

On the other hand, when people want to find a bumper sticker for themselves, how do they find the right one? Well, they go shopping.

Maybe, in order to be more successful, progressives need to think more about how to help people who are shopping for ways to express their progressive political ideas. Maybe, Kaboodle is the kind of place political progressives need to go more often. If we want people to pay attention to what matters to us, turning the huge shopping infrastructure in our favor couldn’t hurt.

I’ve spend a little bit of time this afternoon exploring the bumper stickers that are already listed on the Kaboodle system, and adding a few more of my own. I find that I appreciate the way that the system allows me to categorize bumper stickers into lists and sub-sections. Is this capitalist system inherently anti-progressive, or can it be legitimately turned into a medium for progressive activation of previously apathetic citizens?

The following are a few bumper stickers I’ve put together into a section called liberty.

Political Bumper Stickers by oakgall

I’d like to hear from other people what they think about this system, and how they’re using it.

Consider the blog entry created by PonyGirl, a member of the group. She talks about a recent Obama campaign activity which did more than just hold a rally for Obama. In Minneapolis, Obama supporters came together to clean up the riverfront part. “You would be hard pressed to find narry a cigarette butt,” she writes.

That tells you a lot about gardeners, and about supporters for Barack Obama. These aren’t the kind of people who sit and think about how things might be. They get up out of their chairs and work to match what is to what things could be. They plan ahead. They care about the world around them.

It’s a good sign for the Barack Obama presidential campaign that it has grabbed the support of gardeners.

To try to see the other side, I searched Google for any groups of gardeners who might support McCain. I only got the following message in response, “No results found for “gardeners for mccain”.

That tells me what I need to know about the John McCain for President campaign. I’ll join Gardeners for Obama.