Uprooted 2
Unsigned yards; Fabiola Santiago reports from Miami:
I woke up one recent morning to Romney-Ryan signs propped on my neighbors’ lawns.
No surprise there. Many are Republicans, and although I’m not a fan of Romney and my vote is for the sitting president, I was thrilled by the voter spirit.
Shortly after, my next-door neighbor put up his signs: Obama-Biden.
I wanted to break out the champagne. Long live democracy.
Americans who were born with the unalienable right to disagree and dissent may take for granted their elections, but for so many like me who have lived in totalitarian regimes, elections are a cause for celebration.
But my joy was short-lived.
A politically thin-skinned klepto in our small gated community stole my neighbor’s signs — the only ones in support of President Obama.
One of my acquaintances here, a fellow lives in an exclusive neighborhood near the Beachfront, has put up two Obama signs.
Neither one lasted through the evening of the day on which he planted it in his lawn.
October 21, 2012 at 11:12 pm
One of my ‘friends’ on FB, who lives in Nags Head/Kill Devil Hills. or maybe Ocracoke (posts pics from all of them regularly) published a link to a story in the local paper how the Obama signs were uprooted one night in what was obviously a pickup truck operation and dumped in the wood in the area. Where the local police found them. We live in a split country and there’s no commonality in the tribes anymore than the coincidence of being born here. Even down to the triviality of signs, there’s no cease fire.
October 22, 2012 at 7:37 am
I suspect a lot of it stems from the Republican decision to pander to the religious right, influencing politics towards a struggle between good and evil, as opposed to policy disputes, and spiraling from there. It made the “good vs. evil” mainstream.