Posted by
NAlcoba on Sunday, August 30, 2009 3:04:14 AM
"War IS Terrorism!" (actually, TERRORISM is terrorism...but why mince words?)
"Proud PEACE-monger"
"Evolution is just a theory, like gravity!" (This one makes me chuckle, because gravity is a LAW, not a theory...proving that liberals like to champion science, but didn't do as well as their conservative counterparts in high school).
I wish I had a function on my dashboard, that when I see an INANE bumper sticker in front of me, I could push a button that would shoot out a 'rebuttal bumper sticker' to plaster over it. I'm a compassionate conservative, so when I see such ideological silly putty on someone's bumper, I feel it is my duty to educate them for free. I doubt the college that filled their heads with strained squash will issue them a refund.
Living in Seattle, I see more liberal message bumper stickers than conservative ones. Seattle is also famous for lousy drivers. So in my non-scientific scientific study, liberals are lousy drivers. But it doesn't matter if you're a lousy driver AS LONG AS you have a bumper sticker that reminds people to recycle, or that reminds you that Bush is an idiot. As long as you display your compassionate ideology (liberalism) on your bumper, you don't really need to practice any real form of compassion in daily life. You ARE what you stand for.
Fine, it's just a gesture. Are gestures so bad? Doesn't it count for something to have good intentions and make one's voice heard? Isn't that what 'getting involved' means? What's so wrong about saying "we are the change we've been waiting for" (whateve the heck THAT means)? Putting an Obama logo on my car AUTOMATICALLY makes me one of the good guys right? I don't need to volunteer my time at a soup kitchen to prove I'm selfless, all I need to do is INSULT the men and women in uniform who risk their behinds by displaying a sticker that says "End this war!". I'm doing MY part, right? Bumper stickers show my PASSION! It shows I care!
Who needs real life results when you have passion?
Bumper stickers are magic. Where else can a 12 inch piece of plastic with adhesive transform the biggest a-hole into someone of conscience? You see, liberalism doesn't demand any personal change...it simply requires you declare yourself liberal. Bumper stickers declare you're a liberal. Symbolism without doing, is just as VALID as doing. Symbolism without results trumps ACTUAL results, because your intentions are noble.
I see more liberal bumper stickers than conservative ones, not just BECAUSE I live in Seattle. Bumper stickers and bumper sticker mentality are a liberal phenomena. They're a lesson in liberalism. They tend to be cynical, and clever sounding without being factual, they appeal to emotion, not unlike most liberals...but more importantly, they're empty gestures. Liberalism is an ideology of empty gestures.
It's no coincidence that the initials of 'bumper stickers' is BS.