Taking our Coexist sticker off of our car today...

[Freedomofspeech]

We are in the middle of NRA country (SW PA) and we are afraid to be targeted. A sad day for us because we have always had some type of peace symbol on our car but this ad they put out is too frightening....we will continue to resist as we do but can no longer advertise our feelings.

[RKP5637]

1. I've never put stickers on my cars. Way too many crazies on the road today. n/t

[tblue37]

10. Same here. nt

[RKP5637]

29. I'm wondering if this will ever be one country, the divides are so great. n/t

[MrScorpio]

45. I hear you

Plus, they ruin the finish.

[safeinOhio]

2. Screw em

I wore an Obama shirt to a gun show. Lots of dirty looks, but I also got a few thumbs up.

[magicarpet]

3. what a sin.... the meek and the pacifist shall inherit... yeah right

The fascists seem to have taken over and are driving the bus.

[Moostache]

4. I am putting a second on mine then...

Fuck these sons of bitches....they do NOT get to threaten us into silence. I will be dead before I will be intimidated by thugs and insane people. This world is not worth living in if "living" means doing so on bended knee to the lowest of the low in humanity.

If we cannot live in a better world or advocate for such a world, then shoot me now and prosecute the bastards to the fullest and relish the chance to execute them when the time comes...

[Freedomofspeech]

7. Our county went 70% for tRump...

We were advised not to put Hillary signs in our yard but everyone knows we are liberals. Before the election someone came and literally surrounded our yard with trump signs. These hillbillies still have their stickers on their trucks and their signs in their yards. One out of 7 people (it may be more now) have gun permits. We really have to be cautious.

[Moostache]

9. You should call the police...and if they are in on it, the state's attorney general.

If the state government is in on it too, then the US district attorney and the national press. That kind of vigilante, frontier justice is bullshit and should be exposed...

I am sorry that you feel you must be muzzled and live in silence, that is an evil thing your neighbors are doing to you.
I would move and torch the ground behind me, but I hope you stay safe and unharmed.

You should have lit every one of the Trump signs on fire.

[Freedomofspeech]

22. We called the local police but they were all trump supporters and said they didn't have time to

Patrol around our neighborhood...we live in a town of about 4500 and we have a full time police force.😕

[KingCharlemagne]

20. I respect your opinion My car with "War is Not the Answer" stickers was routinely

vandalized and fucked with during the Bush reign of error. Even had a couple motorists in big pick-up truck type vehicles bird-dog me for several miles. Talk about some serious butt pucker.

[Freedomofspeech]

23. Trust me...our house was a call center for President Obama's second campaign...

We put up with a lot of crap.

[renate]

28. it takes a lot of courage to do what you did with the call center

And if I lived where you do I wouldn't put a bumper sticker on my car either. In fact, I live in a blue area surrounded by red and I still don't put a political bumper sticker on my car. Partly because I don't think anyone's mind has ever been changed by a bumper sticker, but mostly because it only takes one nut with a gun, and there are plenty of nuts with guns out there.

[KingCharlemagne]

44. Its a cold Civil War for now. Only a spark or two is required for the kindling

to burst into flames. Pursuant to this, see my comment downthread about the need for a Fifth Column inside enemy lines.

[Bleacher Creature]

5. I'm so sorry.

I just drove through the middle of PA and it was just as bad.

I'm just not sure we really can coexist with people who are so far gone - and dangerous.

[El Mimbreno]

6. Keeping ours:

Coexist

No new taxes - just make the wealthy pay theirs

The needs of the 99% outweigh the greed of the 1%

Democat (with red, white, blue cat profile)

[Boxerfan]

8. The brave shall??? Trust me-it is for the better & hope it is temporary.

Please realize-those who say be brave-that we are dealing with a extra strength brand of cray cray here.

I drive a VW van-that is probably enough. But I also sported a handmade sign "Beware the Zombies of Reagan". I was also brave and probably still am but whatever.

I had the brave wiped clean after a local sheriff targeted me because I had a dog off leash. It was the scariest encounter with a policeman I ever had . I honestly felt one wrong twitch or answer & he would have shot me. I was alone in a park metal detecting so he knew the bus was mine. Old man digging holes legally-with a permit even.

So he only had one reason to brutalize me for 1/2 hour hand on his holster. My sign...

This was years ago...

It has gotten much worse.

[Freedomofspeech]

25. Yeah, we drive a Volvo...

and we are educated...we are really a threat.

[Henry Krinkle]

11. You can still have your cake and eat it too

Just slap one of these babies on your ride, and you'll be getting thumbs up, and air horn
blasts of approval instead of middle fingers and verbal threats...

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[dalton99a]

13. That's actually not bad advice

for people living in or driving through enemy territory who want to keep their D stickers

[Freedomofspeech]

24. Oh, my god...they would elect me as mayor!

[mreilly]

12. I don't blame you but it's worth pointing out...

... I have a Twitter account where I bash Trump constantly and his fans NEVER say boo to me. Want to know why? My cover photo is of me firing my rifle at the range. The cowards don't dare pick on someone who can defend themselves.

And so I recommend leaving the Co-exist sticker on and adding a sticker along the lines of "This vehicle protected by Colt .45." If the chickenshits think you can (and will) fight back I'd lay odds they won't so much as dare look at you cross-eyed.

[dalton99a]

17. Yep. Make them feel the fear for a change

[lunasun]

14. I would never ever put anything on my car . I have had trouble without it -spit on a few times

-my car parked, just for not being the right color for an area I'm not going to look for trouble. Not that a peaceful coexist sticker should upset anyone who wants to peacefully coexist, but let's face it plenty don't want to do that here.

[phylny]

15. The only stickers I have on my car are my husband's Army Airborne Ranger sticker, a

University of Delaware sticker, and my newest, which is as close as I'll get to "anti-Trump": Not my circus, not my monkeys.

[KingCharlemagne]

16. You need to form a Fifth Column inside the heart of NRA country. One prerequisite of Fifth Column

membership is a devotion to anonymity and secrecy.

[Freedomofspeech]

46. Interesting. ..thanks.

[Maraya1969]

18. Did something else happen that I don't know about?

[BumRushDaShow]

19. You could try one of these

and see if anyone notices!



But seriously, I can understand because I know although I live in an extremely liberal part of the city, there are loons everywhere and they will vandalize a car in a hot minute.

[Freedomofspeech]

21. Love that one!

[SaveOurDemocracy]

36. LOL. That one is Great!

[tanyev]

26. I hear you. I live in a very red area and I won't put anything on my car.

It's too easy for some a**hole to anonymously do something that could have very serious consequences. I do wear liberal t-shirts and so far the only comments I've gotten were complimentary.

[liberaltrucker]

27. I can relate..

I'm in Butler County. Hell, I may as well move back to Alabama.

[CozyMystery]

30. Me too. I hear you.

[peggysue2]

31. I live in a Red State

A 60/40 vote for the Trumpster but I still have my Hillary bumper sticker. This past week I went to the gas station and a total stranger gave me a 'thumbs up' sign then shouted out "I like your sticker."

Made me smile. Bigly.

[defacto7]

34. I think we sometimes forget how many of "us" are out there.

If we are more vocal, those who are with us will feel less alone and become vocal.
Good for you for staying visible! We can't let the jerks in the world control the message... and us.

[defacto7]

32. Our constitution and Bill of Rights were written

for the most part so we could have a society with all its differences that could develop and coexist in civility; one that could work out its problems without decending to the worst impulses in human nature. Civility died with the rise of Trumpism. Our innate worst impulses are on the rise again.
In the oldest game of human survival the one with the biggest stick and largest number of participanrs with big sticks wins. The intelligent and thinking/empathetic only conquer the big sticks with overwhelming numbers incurring many losses or by taking up their own big sticks.
We can't just give up and shy away to defeat an uncivilized horde; they will win. We had better get tough, unify into large numbers and be powerfully and intelligently vocal and be prepared for the possibility of defending freedom with our own "big sticks" as a last resort. Otherwise, as history teaches, we will lose.

[Hoyt]

33. I keep my "D" sticker on my car. Had an Obama sticker through 2016. Had a few problems including

some white winger that got his rifle out of his trunk when I finally got tired of him aggressively riding on my tail and yelling at me.

Probably a good move to remove the stickers, but it's a shame it has come to that.

[John1956PA]

35. I feel affinity towards you. {from here in Western PA} (n/t)

[Freedomofspeech]

47. We used to be a beautiful blue but...

Now we are blood red here. I hate it but too established here to leave...and too old!

[John1956PA]

48. Same here, but this is still beautiful country, and many fellow residents are decent people.

My wife and I are about to go out and visit a few festivals in this lovely weather. Best wishes.

[Freedomofspeech]

52. We are blessed with many liberal friends...

All the best to you, too.

[badhair77]

37. I'm in S Central PA.

It's not much better here. I'd never put a sticker on my car or a sign in my yard because it's not worth it. One of the local "patriots" would vandalize my car or my property.

[lindysalsagal]

38. Someone peeled off my athiest democrat sticker at the grocery store

and my state always goes blue.

They're nuts. Totally. You can't change them, and demonstrating resistance only strengthens them.

[workinclasszero]

39. You can't Coexist with nazis

This latest hate message from the right wing terror group, the NRA makes that perfectly clear I would say.

The "clenched fist of truth" is coming for you America. These "pro-life" Christians" will be wearing swastikas and brandishing assault weapons, no doubt.

[Orrex]

50. Imagine if a Muslim man had posted an equivalent vid to YouTube.

[workinclasszero]

51. Oh hell the reich wing would be apoplectic with rage

But they are all for right wing white terror with a thin veneer of so-called Christianity about it.

[johnp3907]

40. I live in SW PA too.

If you see a little red car with a "TRUMP SUCKS" sticker on it wave hello to me.

[Freedomofspeech]

41. I will be happy to!

You are a brave soul!

[McCamy Taylor]

42. I have always kept my Democratic ticket sticker on until the next election, win or lose

(or, in the case of 2000 and 2004) steal. But this year, I too have had to switch to non threatening (Hello Kitty, Pokemon) decals, because it is almost suicide to express any political opinion on your car with so many armed and dangerous loons on the road.

I hate the the NRA and the white supremacists are shutting down free speech.

[Vinca]

43. I took a sticker off my car, too. I was worried about a wingnut keying it.

[Orrex]

49. They do not want our outreach or our understanding

They do not want to coexist with us. They wish to subjugate and silence us.

It is foolish and self-destructive to try to empathize with one's abuser while the abuse is actually happening.


I don't fault you for taking the sticker off. It was an act of basic self-preservation.