# What's up with lefties and the excessive bumper sticker meme?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-lefties-and-the-excessive-bumper-sticker-meme/520964
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 12, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-lefties-and-the-excessive-bumper-sticker-meme/520964 "2009-12-12T04:34:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-lefties-and-the-excessive-bumper-sticker-meme/520964/61 "2011-01-05T13:59:57Z")
> [@elmwood](#):
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> Note the handicap plates. I didn’t know Kentucky issued them for mental retardation as well.
The guy has all these stickers about boycotting Muslim businesses and complaining about Saudi Arabia, but drives a pickup. I guess the oil industry doesn’t count.
I’ve seen the overstickered effect on more right-wing cars than left-wing, including one where they’d virtually covered the rear of the car with various “Support Our Troops” stickers, “ribbon” stickers and of course lots of flags. I’m guessing they had a child in Iraq/Afghanistan.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-lefties-and-the-excessive-bumper-sticker-meme/520964/62 "2011-01-05T15:11:08Z")
There is a car I see every day that is absolutely covered in writing, but the letters are so small I can never get close enough to see what the driver is so worked up about. I guess I could just walk up to it one day (it’s parked at the post office next door) but I’d be afraid of getting caught by the wackjob who would do that to their car.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-lefties-and-the-excessive-bumper-sticker-meme/520964/63 "2011-01-05T15:29:40Z")
My dad is pretty far to the right (although he’ll tell you he’s a centrist :rolleyes:) and while he doesn’t have a whole lot of stickers on his car, he has a trailer that he uses to haul around his motorcycle which is positively covered in Christian and Sarah Palin bumper stickers. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that he’s added some stickers which proclaim Obama to not be his President because he’s not a citizen, since that’s all he ever posts about on Facebook.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-lefties-and-the-excessive-bumper-sticker-meme/520964/64 "2011-01-05T15:43:27Z")
My own personal experience is that morbid bumper sticker excess generally leans left, while bizarre car modification (along the lines of a couple of **Johnny L.A.**'s Jesus cars) generally comes from the right.
> [@crypto7](#):
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> Taken to its extreme, “disorganization” is a complete lack of organization, or order. Which is exactly what “disorder” is – the absence of an ordered mind. Conservatives are more likely to impose order on their little universes, while liberals are more likely to let their balls hang out, preferably getting tons of attention therefrom.
Welcome, **crypto7**! I think you’re going to like it here. 😃
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### Author:  [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-lefties-and-the-excessive-bumper-sticker-meme/520964/65 "2011-01-05T16:54:36Z")
In Columbus, I see approximately equal amounts of hippie-mobiles and Beck-Trucks.
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### Author:  [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-lefties-and-the-excessive-bumper-sticker-meme/520964/66 "2011-01-07T23:53:40Z")
> [@Spoons](#):
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> No, Britain/Canada, War of 1812.
You don’t consider the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor an invasion?
What would you call it?
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-lefties-and-the-excessive-bumper-sticker-meme/520964/67 "2011-01-08T00:48:42Z")
The word is _attack_, not _invasion_.
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-lefties-and-the-excessive-bumper-sticker-meme/520964/68 "2011-01-08T00:49:01Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#):
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> You don’t consider the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor an invasion?
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> What would you call it?
Sneak attack.
An invasion requires, you know, invading.
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### Author:  [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2011, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-lefties-and-the-excessive-bumper-sticker-meme/520964/69 "2011-01-08T06:25:04Z")
There was a small hippie-mobile covered in anti-Reagan, save the gay whales etc. bumper stickers that I saw a lot when I got my first job in Boston in the early 90s.
For the state government. Which is on Beacon Hill.
Which meant this cheap jalopy with rapidly fading and outdated stickers holding it together was commonly parked in front of some of the most distinguished red-brick white-trim mansions in America.
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### Author:  [@loshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loshan)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2011, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-lefties-and-the-excessive-bumper-sticker-meme/520964/70 "2011-01-08T07:18:13Z")
There is actually a 70’s vintage Toyota truck I see a couple times a year in my neck of the woods that has all of them. “My Body, My Choice” AND “Abortion Stops a Beating Heart”, Bush/Cheney AND Obama/Biden, “Save the Spotted Owls” AND “I Am A Logger and I Wipe My Ass with Spotted Owls”.
Any bumper sticker is good for this guy apparently.😕
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