The other day I saw a Mercedes with a couple of bumper stickers while I was running some errands in Santa Cruz. Political bumper stickers are nothing spectacular in this super liberal town. Some are really fun to read when you are stuck in the beach-going traffic. Others are simply too political. Or too liberal. People at Starbucks ought to be mad had they seen this: Friends don't let friends drink Starbucks. That sort of stickers are everywhere in Santa Cruz.
But it was a first to see a Mercedes to have bumper stickers. The slogans were nothing fancy (No War for Oil! etc.) but with metal frame. I guess it belonged to one of these got-rich-before-being-corrupted people. There are three types of these people: Hollywood celebrities, Wall Street bankers, and Silicon Valley Googlers. They were all young when wealth rained down on them for good reasons (or not?). Since their consciences haven't been "tampered" with, they tend to be idealists, and they surely have the luxury to be. Sadly, idealists often equate liberals in this country.
I admire people with idealism, but you know what the Jews said about their czars in old-time Russia, "May they live a long life, but stay away from me."
(Picture: politicalbumpersticker.blogspot.com)
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