A year ago, here in Miami, Obama bumper stickers were everywhere on the highways. It was sickening, really but what can you do? I drive 80 miles from my home to my office and back five days a week. That’s a lot of time in a car to observe the collective psychosis of South Florida and I am seldom bored. The passion for Obama did not wane even through Christmas. I estimate 25% of the cars I passed had a sticker in support of Obama. Secretly I fantasized buying “hammer and sickle” stickers and covering over the “O” on all of them and debated whether the cameras in parking garages would catch me and how much trouble would I get in if I did it so I never did … but I wanted to … they annoyed me that much.
Yesterday I realized something had changed … something struck me … there were no Obama bumper stickers on any of the cars. From Islamorada, to Florida City, up the turnpike, the Don Shula, The infamous Palmetto expressway and onto the Dolphin which passes the Miami International Airport … I didn’t see one last night going in the opposite direction to home and this morning I was actively looking for one and could not find one.
Not ONE.
The odds of that are remote, expecially based on the “in your face” agression of Obama supporters in the past year. Many cars used to have not one, but many “O” centric bumper stickers. I’m not saying they are no longer out there somewhere, but I can’t remember a day since the election until yesterday when I did not see even one car with an Obama sticker on it. It is as if something happened last weekend that made people decide to take the stickers off of their BMW’s and Escalades.
I’m a big “ocean” kind of gal and this reminds me of the shark effect … almost. There you are, scuba diving a pretty reef, and there are fish everywhere, and suddenly the fish disappear. You look around the emptiness to find the shark — because you know it’s there somewhere — and figure out what to do next based on what kind it is and how big. Nothing runs from a nurse shark or baracudas. Most things ignore lemon sharks, too. A Bull shark or Sand Tiger? Hammerhead? You get the hell out of the water or hide.
But people in Miami are fearless. Seriously. They back down from no one. Most of them are armed to the teeth and they will shoot you in your car if you flip them off. Why have the bumper stickers disappeared, then?
Something is happening. Something not good.
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Something not good? I disagree. It’s called “waking up and smelling the coffee”. We’ve been had.
I found one small sticker that said Obama\Biden on a car but it was very small and no signature logo. That’s it. 48 hours of looking at cars, 360 miles of driving and walking through parking lots. One car and you really had to look to tell.
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