I made a donation and got this I (Heart) Obamacare sticker. I’ll put it on my car later. I live in a fairly conservative county (the home of this fine facility) so I wonder if it will be peeled off the car, or if someone will go the vandalism route.
You can vote on the outcome of my sticker experiment!
Put me down for “car vandalized”.
I’ll be more optimistic and say “not removed but defaced”. But if it doesn’t happen within two weeks, you’re probably safe.
I’ve wondered the same thing about putting an anti-union stiker on my car, but I don’t want it to get keyed or a widow smashed, so I don’t.
I’m in upstate SC, and have a couple Obama stickers. I’ve had a person or two make nasty comments while I’m stopped at a light, but no ones actually messed with the stickers.
I used to have a Stupid People Shouldn’t Breed bumper sticker. The folks that should have been offended weren’t bright enough to understand my point.
I got tired of seeing all the Obama stickers years after he won the election. I responded by putting “I want my Change back” and Gadsen flag bumper stickers on my car, not vandalising someone elses.
I still see the occasional McCain/Palin stickers around, which seems like it would be kind of depressing if you were a GOP supporter.
In the 80’s, one of my neighbors had an old car with a Kennedy/Johnson bumper sticker. So apparently, people are pretty lax about removing stickers, even once they’ve become moot.
A friend had a “Eat a Queer Fetus for Jesus” sticker defaced after about a month.
He suspects his mother.
I put “Not peeled off, but somehow defaced”, but it may stay forever. But on the other hand, I had a bumper sticker on my old car:
Lost your cat?
Try looking under my tires
I had five bumper stickers on this car (the bumper was smashed in, and it was ugly already), and none of them could be considered remotely offensive, except this one. Still, I got a very long, evil death threat note stuck under my wipers from a person who claimed to be Christian.
So you never know. I never put anything remotely political or controversial on my car now.
I went with vandalism. It is like putting a bullseye on your car.
Here is an interesting story from 2004 about what happens when you walk around in campain shirts from the opposite party as the local consensus.
Right. Because nothing makes a point more agreeable than wanton vandalism. :rolleyes:
(The snark isn’t aimed at you, Der Trihs; it’s aimed at those who think destruction of property is an appropriate response to a different viewpoint.)
I wouldn’t think people would be 1. offended enough and also 2. stupid enough to actually deface a car for having decorations they don’t like. But my sister had a ‘Hang up and Drive!’ sticker on her car and it was torn off, wadded up and put beneath the windshield wiper.
Seriously, what the hell? Why are people so stupid?
And no, I’m NOT new here, lol.
I find it incredibly unlikely that it will be removed. If it is then it further demonstrates to me how different American culture is to mine.
It will peal off on it’s own during the car fire.
I chose that the sticker will be defaced. Basically a attempt at peeling it off but not completly successful. Happened to any of the stickers I put on my car back when I lived in Oklahoma.
My guess is that nothing will happen. Even in very partisan communities there are still lots of people rooting for the other team, so it’s not like people aren’t used to seeing stickers or yard signs they disagree with, but still managing to be civil about it. (I was curious, so I checked here: a third of your county voted for Obama.)
Sorry, but this was freakin’ hilarious.
I’m guessing nothing will happen but it only takes one jackass. And jackasses are everywhere.