Personally, I think it has to do with a certain amount of civility in the person...the more left, the more anti-authoritarian the person is likely to be...therefore, less respect towards things conventional...

Whereas, righties have a tendency to think things over before making comments or offering opinions...Therefore, they seem too slow, stodgy and "conservative" to things like change. To lefties, the righties are stuck up and as you're observing, without humor or the ability to express it.

Me? I just pick up the stick and poke 'em in back...I may not get the first shot in, but because I have a chance to think about the weak points in their humor, my poke back might be more fatalistic in its delivery...

At least I hope it is...

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'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ Yogi Berra ~

Thinking longer doesn't mean thinking better.

I hope that you're not telling me that conservatives are, well, just "slow."

Nope...just taking the time to think about ALL THE POSSIBLILITIES (sorta' like chess) and selecting the correct one...

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M. G. Burg
'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ Yogi Berra ~

For some interpretation of "ALL" and "correct," sure.

In place of "correct" - I was going to type in "right" - but that seemed too obvious...and I wouldn't want to be that humorous...

BTW, here are two free ones, from me...

Just remember, if you're going to print 'em up, just put "mgb757" in the lower right-hand corner...that'll be your license to use 'em...for free, from me!

#1.)
(This is a play on the "...working person, voting for a Republican...chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.." anology that doesn't work on so many levels...chickens can't vote, Col. Sanders is dead...etc...)


#2.)
(A play on Rush Limbaugh's name that would refer to the fact that you were a Ditto-head and listened to his show and the anti-American "merican" bruhaha a few years back...)

Now that I've poked the hornests' nest with the stick...let's have fun kids!!!!

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M. G. Burg
'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ Yogi Berra ~

I found this company that makes shirts that would get you attacked by the PC Police!

http://www.thoseshirts.com/ddt.html

Here are some of my faves...

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"I have no convictions ... I blow with the wind, and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy"

Current
Monika '74 450 SL
BrownHilda '79 280SL
FoxyCleopatra '99 Chevy Suburban
Scarlett 2014 Jeep Cherokee
Krystal 2004 Volvo S60
Gone
'74 Jeep CJ5
'97 Jeep ZJ Laredo
Rudolf ‘86 300SDL
Bruno '81 300SD
Fritzi '84 BMW
'92 Subaru
'96 Impala SS
'71 Buick GS conv
'67 GTO conv
'63 Corvair conv
'57 Nomad

I thought of this one today. I believe it to be original. I may yet have a shirt made with it. Though I'll never put a bumper sticker on any vehicle I ever drive.

MY GUNS "ARE" MY RELIGION

- Peter.

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2021 Chevrolet Spark
Formerly...
2000 GMC Sonoma
1981 240D 4spd stick. 347000 miles. Deceased Feb 14 2021
2002 Kia Rio. Worst crap on four wheels
1981 240D 4spd stick. 389000 miles.
1984 123 200
1979 116 280S
1972 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
1971 108 280S

Right wing circa 1964!

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Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

The left work and often make more than conservatives.

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2005/05/median_income_d.html

In my state property taxes fund schools. The big city is more liberal,
income is higher, house values are higher so property taxes take in more money.
The school money is distributed evenly by the state per student so money
flows from the city to the country.

It is the underclass consevatives that I find hard to understand. They worry about
God, same sex marriage, guns... Their real problem is raising a family on $50K/yr
How can they save for retirement and college, will they have health coverage,
jobs?

Never had political stickers and have taken the few surf stickers I had off. Seemed kind of
silly.

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I remember some of that stuff from back then. There was a flier they distributed somewhere around the Kennedy-Nixon election year (in which the "true-believers" recommended not voting for either because both would sell-out whitey) in which it depicted a beautiful little white girl walking hand-in-hand to school with a horrible caricature of a black boy. The caption read something to the effect of this is what would happen when schools integrated. Aside from the racial caricature, they were right!

What makes it particularly ironic is that the more "liberal" whites, who supported integration, were all about reassuring that racial mixing in school would not result in interracial social relations. They really believed that parental supervision could overcome basic biology -- WRONG! Since time immemorial all cultures have realized that the only way to ensure tribal purity is annihilation of the subordinate tribe. The most recent example is Rwanda, I guess. Perhaps Darfur. That's also why God told Joshua (or Moses? I forgot) to kill all of the various tribes of non-Hebrew people living in the Promised Land. The need to maintain purity transcends mercy.

This also what makes The American experiment in equality such a novel approach to philosophy of government. We don't share some tribal adherence to tribal purity, we share a common philosophy of government which we believe all races, tribes and cultures hold in common. That is the meaning of these sentences,

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

The interesting point about this as I see it is an implicit acceptance of violence as a means of governmental change. Essentially legitimizing civil war for if government is of the opinion that their will trumps that of the people, and the people disagree there is no other way to effect that change. Hence he two civil wars that already occurred in US history. I have often wondered if and when a third will occur, or are the US populace too pussywhipped to ever attempt governmental change in the future?

- Peter.

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2021 Chevrolet Spark
Formerly...
2000 GMC Sonoma
1981 240D 4spd stick. 347000 miles. Deceased Feb 14 2021
2002 Kia Rio. Worst crap on four wheels
1981 240D 4spd stick. 389000 miles.
1984 123 200
1979 116 280S
1972 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
1971 108 280S

Two civil wars? Your history is a bit off we have only had one.

A little civil war now and again isn't a bad thing, it keeps the government in check.

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2016 Corvette Stingray 2LT
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

The American revolution was not a war against a foreign power, it was a revolt by the people against their own government. Thus it was the first American Civil war. The war of Northern Agression was merely the second.

- Peter.

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2021 Chevrolet Spark
Formerly...
2000 GMC Sonoma
1981 240D 4spd stick. 347000 miles. Deceased Feb 14 2021
2002 Kia Rio. Worst crap on four wheels
1981 240D 4spd stick. 389000 miles.
1984 123 200
1979 116 280S
1972 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
1971 108 280S

Disagree on the revolution, since the British Empire put that government in place and ran it.

One of the main points of the revolution was that it wasn't their own government, remember taxation without representation. If the British let the colonists participate more in running the colonies we probably would have went the way of Canada.

You must be from the very deep old south if you refer to the civil war like that.

Edit: I'm very proud of the fact that two of my ancestors signed the Declaration of Independence, and gave the Brits the middle finger. They had balls doing that to the most powerfull country in the world at that time.

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1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

There was also Shay's Rebellion & the Whisky Rebellion. Both armed resistance by militias in opposition to the central governments laws governing commerce, IIRC.