When Obamacare open enrollment ends March 31st, so does an opportunity for millions of Americans to save money, draw comfort from coverage, and shatter the right-wing mantra. The more people that sign up and save, the more that will understand how much their Limbaugh alliance has cost them every month.
They will come to realize that they've been played.
So what can each of us do individually to promote the questioning of the CORPservative GOP motives in dissuading millions from saving money?
Our inboxes are filled with requests for $5, $10, $50. What if instead they often held small-scale calls to action using our one perpetual connection to the outside world: our cars?
It's time to start a campaign of Back Glass Activism, turning the main liabilities of bumper stickers into assets. With bumper stickers you are limited to a short message that you are stuck with that stays the same for months if not years.
But if you were to put three concise messages on little signs on the left, lower middle, and right of your rear window, you could say so much more. And you could change the messaging almost daily; if a Boehner or Limbaugh lie needs harpooning immediately, date it and skewer it on your back glass.
And since the need is so great right this minute, I propose a Back Glass Activism (BGA) campaign with this message or something similar:
Left: How Many Hundreds Will Your Limbaugh Loyalty Cost You Every Month?
Lower center: I'm Saving a Month Through Obamacare
Right: GOP Willing to Crimp Your Wallet Because If You Do Better Under Obama, They Lose
Of course, each person will fill in the blank in the center sign to the number that they have realized.
Yes, the individual impact of this is pretty much limited to how many times there is somebody behind you at a stop sign or light. But through email blasts, Twitter, Facebook, Occupy, and the collective range of progressive campaigns, there are dozens of folks in every community across the nation that could be willing to emblazon their back windows this way.
Picture this possibility for a moment. Donny Dittohead sees this unusual configuration of signs in the window in front of him at the stop, and reads part of it. He smirks. Later that day he sees another rear window that looks the same in another lane on the freeway. He doesn't need to read it, the message is already in him, now being reaffirmed.
In the next week he sees that configuration another dozen times. He likes saving money, so he goes online or calls somebody and signs up. After all, nobody will know. And when he gets the figures on what he'll save every month with his subsidy, he'll know we didn't lie to him but Rush did. Delaying his signup cost him over $1000 and that will tick him off. Donny will know he's been played, and the Rush infatuation will be over.
Add to that the whopper about global warming, and Donny may be a Dittohead no more.