Nowadays when you're sitting in a restaurant or any other public place and you see people

[mtnsnake]

...whether they're strangers or familiar faces...do you wonder if they're Democrats or Republicans, liberals or conservatives, as your glance passes each one by? It's hard to tell at a quick glance, although sometimes some of them stand out like a sore thumb.

Imagine if everyone had something on them that revealed what their political affiliation was. I wonder what that would be like.

[polichick]

1. I wear a baseball cap with an Obama button on the front - so I can tell...

...by the smiles or pinched looks they give me. lol

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. I usually just assume they are repugs. I live in Texas.

:silly:

[TomInTib]

5. 80% of the Texans I know are Dems.

I am the sole member of my Family (who, by the way, settled in what is now Angelina County in 1630) who lives outside The Great State. With few exceptions, all of my Texas friends are Dems, as well, because I have no Republican friends (by choice).

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. I was being a smart ass. Forgive me.

:blush: My husband's family who are fourth generation Texans are all Dems.

[TomInTib]

13. Yeah, it's the carpetbaggers who f***ed things up.

Us old Tejanos need to stick together.

Tom

[eowyn_of_rohan]

3. yes, and it is getting really bad

I feel anger building up lately towards anyone I think may be stupid enough to vote repuke this year... We were out with friends the other night and I really lit into a guy who said he liked sarah palin... i feel kinda embarrassed now :(

[rzemanfl]

4. Don't be embarassed, beating the crap out of the guy would

have been in poor taste and might have gotten you arrested. You did well.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

24. Yeah, but remember that time,

when we were leaving Pickle Bill's Early Bird and you saw that guy in the Pat Buchanan for President t-shirt and you pretended to stumble, and when you landed in his lap, you threw up on him?

You said it was your new prostate medication, but I knew better.

[Duer 157099]

6. Eeek... my first thought was it'd be like Germany in the 1930s

People wearing yellow stars on their sleeves... Yeah, I can see if Palin et al get in, they'll mandate some sort of "label" that liberals will have to wear.

[riverdeep]

16. Or sneeches.

Can't we all just get along? Hell, this IS getting along, you should've seen us before democracy. Of course, when four companies pump out 85% of the information that gets out there, it's hard to have an informed electorate. Any info contrary to the aims of the parent company must be 'dealt' with.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

7. If you saw only 36 blacks out of over 2000 people you would be

at a Republican convention.

[MarkInCA]

9. I live in Central Calif

So majority here is Repulitards. Fortunately I live in a progressive enclave of my town (purple hair types) so I'm guessing most of them are dems.

[EC]

10. Yeah, my daughter called me from work today all depressed because

there's a bunch of fundies on staff and she can't get through to them, she says all they keep saying to her is Obama is going to raise their taxes...so I gave her some fliers I made with the Washington Post's tax chart illustration and told her that if they come up with a new excuse after that to forget it they are bigots and too stupid to help themselves...


I wear my button all the time and watch for reactions. I laugh at the ones that scowl...

[underseasurveyor]

12. Tell your daughter to say this next time they say Obama is going to raise taxes

She should looked at them with a look of disbelief, shake her head and chuckle and say....
I can't believe you people are still falling for that old lie? And after all this time I would have thought you would have caught on by now. Hmm, I guess you can fool some people all the time.

[1Hippiechick]

11. Oh, lord - I have put Obama 08 bumper stickers on our cars - I expect everyday to find my car keyed

or with a busted windshield.

[underseasurveyor]

14. I wear my *Barack To The Future* tee-shirt A LOT

and I can tell what kind of voter someone is just by the look on their face. If they're pukes they avert their eyes quickly. If they're Dems I hear, more often than not, 'Where did you get that shirt? I like it and I want one'. :-)

[MadrasT]

15. I do. And it's kind of scary.

I am only recently starting to be able to understand how civil wars happen. :hide:

[AlCzervik]

17. i don't because i tend to jump to the wrong conclusion based on a persons looks too fast.

now i see neutral unless i see a shirt or bumper sticker.

[treestar]

18. I've thought of that

Passing people and such and figuring half of them are assholes, I just don't know which. The only strangers I like respect on sight are black people! I figure they're safe, lol.

[Stinky The Clown]

19. I find myself filtering almost everyone I encounter through a political filter.

[Raine]

20. No, thank goodness because I really hate

to have to get into that kind of mode where I continually thing them vs. us in everything I do and every place I go...that would be too depressing. :-(

[The2ndWheel]

21. Wouldn't even need to develop any sort of human relationship with anyone

Create more distance between people. Become more faceless. More of a digit. More of a color specifying what you think. That's the world we're creating as it is, so, might as well. Just look at the way we're communicating right now. Distant(or close, who knows), faceless, just some letters thrown together on a screen.

[morillon]

22. I have the same problem.

I've found myself smiling more often at the people I'm pretty sure are Democrats. I felt the same way during the extended election season of 2000, and I often wondered how many people around me were Bushites. Recently, I've wondered what I could wear to work that would clearly mark me as a Democrat without being too overbearing about it, and I've got nothing. Work should be a DMZ, in my opinion.

The best I've been able to come up with is this:

- Bumper stickers on all the cars
- Obama and Amnesty International T-shirts in the grocery store, in the mall, everywhere other than work
- Smile at everybody and hope my good will has an effect on them, even/especially if they're die-hard McCainiacs
- Post (hopefully) thought-provoking things on my blog (not linking to that 'cause I keep my identities separate)
- Donate to the Obama campaign and Defenders of Wildlife

Oh. And pray every day that people will see the light. :-)

[lonestarnot]

23. I have something on me that reveals mine! Picture of Barack on a button!

I wear it every day. Almost washed it 3 times. :)

[Balbus]

25. No.