I actually kinda like this one.
Tear the roof of the mother sucker White House!
America…a bold new future. Let’s look ahead, not behind and forge that future together, as one people, united.
Then, put in the tagline of ‘We choose to go to Mars and do the other difficult things…not because they are easy, but because they are hard.’
ETA: Just kidding about that last part.
“Energize” (I like that better than Energize America)
“Down With Trump” (a parallel to Lock Her Up)
“Get Your Ass to Mars” (we choose to go to the Moon)
“Healthcare for All”
“Peace and prosperity”
ETA: Hadn’t seen XT’s post!
TL;DR
Problem is, this invites the conservatives to immediately cherry-pick and produce a long list of incidents where Democrats/liberals weren’t sane.
How about Democrats, snatching defeat from the slavering jaws of victory…AGAIN! That’s kind of catchy.
Why would anyone want to make America same again?
I like the idea, but it may be a bit too wordy.
Well, the tagline was ‘America…a bold new future’, which is only 2 words and an ellipsis longer than ‘Make America Great Again’. I get that it’s a bit longer, but surely folks can slog through the excess. The rest was supposed to be part of the speech to give the tagline some meat.
I’d vote for anyone who said they were going to seriously look at a US manned mission to Mars, so just tossed that in because it sounds good (to me). Give it a little Kennedy-esque gravitas and all that…
I was actually replying to John’s “suggestion” of “TL;DR”.
But, how about bumper stickers we put on right now, that say, “America is great. Let’s keep her that way!”
Waiting till the election may give the wrong idea.
Ah, I didn’t get that. :smack: As to your suggestion, the serious answer is that it indicates that someone thinks America is fine as it is and doesn’t need to change (and, especially after Trump that would be a bad position for the Dems, even if it were true). What you need is something catchy that is vague enough that it can mean something different to everyone yet appeal to a large number of people.
We All Do Better When We All Do Better.
A phrase coined by the late Paul Wellstone. Oft repeated by Al Franken.
That would be the reason for putting them out right away, before much change has transpired.
Probably would have been a better use for 2016, maybe recycle it next time we have an incumbent president.
But a slogan is not about the underlying policy. Now, I’m a wonk, and I read the wonky details of Hillary’s platform and found all the detail I wanted and plans that were practical and would work, and was horrified at the lack of any practical policy thought from Trump.
But when I listened to her speeches (several in full), the parts that were sound-bites and memorable were either (1) all the attacks, or (2) tied to her person not her policies (“I’m with her”). I actually found myself begging with the screen “Please Hillary! Say something emotionally positive and catchy about the voters’ problems, just this once!” A slogan is heart, not brains. You know, the hopey-changy stuff.
Saying that America is already great was a Dem tactic and theme of their convention. They even made parody hats. For some reason the message that everything is hunky dory didn’t fly so well in a change election.
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering ?
But doesn’t your bumper sticker imply that you want to keep Trump in office? Or, at least, that would be one reading of it.
FYI, my TL;DR was supposed to be a meta joke. I hope it didn’t fall flat.
Yeah, that’s why I said it would need to be distributed early, before any trump changes take place, but also acknowledged that it would be better for the use of an incumbent party.
I actually was imagining the “TL;DR” as a bumper sticker slogan in and of itself.
That’s way too meta for me!!