A little discussion I had this week and thought I would share...

[Trouble with Friends]

So, here I am in Bristol.

I walk by the bulletin board by the shower house, and I see a bumper sticker to the effect of "McCain means four more years of Bush" and I started to ponder...

Most people who now of me would think I was a conservative, but most people who know me know I am a Libertarian with slight conservative leanings.

...so my pondering brought up a conversation a few days later at coffee with a couple of friends, and some aquantances. I posed the question "If I were to put up an Anti-Obama bumper sticker under the anti McCain one, how long do you think it would take before it was either defaced or torn down?"

The concensus was that I would be lucky if I even got the thing applied before someone pushed me out of the way and shredded it!

Now keep in mind, I live on the road, and most people I come into contact with on a daily basis are of a very liberal view, including half the people at coffee that morning.

Which left me to wonder, why is it that a bumper sticker that I personally find offensive could remain untouched, while hypothetically another with the same rhetoric would be destroyed?

Does it show that I am more tolerant of others peoples rights that I would leave it up (as far as I know its still there), Or I am so outnumbered that odds are there is a bigger chance of there being a hbiger percentage of extreme liberals that would tear down my sticker?

If the community were mostly conservative, would that bumper sticker have remained up? Makes me wonder....

[anne of oaktower]

A very good question, indeed, Trouble!