Hopefully, most of you already know that I don’t talk politics on this blog. So no names during the answers to these questions, please.
Last night, I had a chance to catch up with one of my older brothers on the phone. (I have 3 older brothers and an older sister.) He mentioned someone stole my sister’s political sign from her front yard.
I laughed and asked if they replaced it with the opposing candidate. They did not. However, we both decided a fun practical joke would be to drive around and switch everyone’s signs to the opposite candidate. Not that it would ever really work in the era of ring doorbells and such.
Anyway, it gave me the idea for today’s question.
Do you put political signs in your yard? What about bumper stickers on your vehicle?
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My answers:
No. My husband’s always been opposed to putting any type of political sign in our yard. I think the only signs we’ve ever had in our yard related to kid stuff (congratulatory signs, a sign advertising a mattress sale at the local high school for a band fundraiser, etc). Oh, and of course, I’m not opposed to a garden flag:
No bumper stickers. I refuse to put any type of stickers on my bumper or even in my rear windshield. When in college, I used to tape the parking sticker on the windshield so I could remove it once done.
In the Netherlands, we don’t put political signs in our gardens. Some people might hang a poster in their window, but even that isn’t very common. You also don’t see bumper stickers on cars very often here. When the war between Hamas and Israel broke out, someone in our street hung up the Israeli flag. It was stolen by anti-Israel people. We have to be careful with what we do nowadays.
I see a lot less bumper stickers than in the past but that might be because I don’t really have a long commute on the highway for my job (oh the things I saw when I had a longer drive back in my late 20’s and early 30’s). Usually the bumper stickers I see are funny as opposed to political. Interesting, I did wonder if the political signs in yards was a specific to the US thing. Sorry someone stole your neighbor’s flag.
NO and NO to both questions. Around here it’s just asking for trouble. Plus I was brought up not to discuss politics, religion or money with acquaintances.
I was brought up the same way! That said, people seem to be fairly respectful of signs in yards around here (other than the fluke with my sister). It’s not like anyone goes knocking on doors to discuss politics based on yard signs (that I know about anyway, ha!).