Pretty wild huh? You see something you don’t think is right, you can just paint a protest sign and stick it up on the commons. You can paint ten signs, or a hundred, or a thousand. Big or small. You don’t have to ask permission. You don’t have to get a bunch of people to do it with you. You can just do it. Wild.
I figure there’s about a hundred million of us who think it’s wrong for the Republicans to accept help from Russia and allow them to meddle in our elections. If just one percent of one percent of them did what I do for a week, that’d be 10,000 signposters, and the week after that there’d be no more Republican Party. Right now we’re about 9,982 short of that, but we’re trying. Here’s 100+ signs our army of 18’s done this year.
The first signs I did today were the two above. Park at the Seabreeze Deli. Walk about 200 feet, and just drop those suckers in the slot. Like this.
I know I must sound like an old fuddy-duddy with my old-fashioned “Cheating is wrong” folderol, not like those young whippersnappers Donald “It was a perfect call...” Trump and Alan “If he thinks being re-elected is what’s best for the nation then the President can solicit foreign help or cheat as much and in whatever way he likes” Dershowitz. I know my silly old signs and corn-pone morality probably seem quaint and you’re all thinking “Don’t be such an old stick-in-the-mud Grampa! Everybody knows the Russians and the Republicans are working together… it’s been normalized!”
And then I shake my head and realize, by gum they’re right… it has been normalized.
But it ain’t normalized on the 101. Not today anyway. ‘Cuz even if it accomplishes nothing else, the one thing a freeway sign does is eliminate the appearance of normalcy.
And it ain’t normalized on the 580 in Oakland.
And it ain’t gonna be normalized on this elevated section of the 280 for a long, long time because in order to take that sucker down you’re gonna have to drive about three miles to the next exit, backtrack on surface streets then find the right cul-de-sac, scale a fence by an abandoned homeless encampment and then climb an 80’ hill next to a high school where many of the students are black and I ain’t seen a Republican capable of doing that since Teddy Roosevelt.
Finished off with my favorite. I’ve put this one up all around the Beltway, as well as St. Louis, Denver, Phoenix, Portland and Seattle, as well as a few times around the Bay Area and LA. Of all my signs I think this one best embodies what the Founders had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment.
Now I imagine that 1% of 1% figure we’re still 9,900+ shy of is roughly one thousandth of the kind of participation the framers of the constitution expected of us in this sort of situation, but if we can be just one one-thousandth the citizens our founding fathers expected us to be, we can win this thing.