I’ve been tagged! The other day, I noticed a few more bumper stickers on my already-crowded vehicle. I chuckled when I saw not one but six different versions of pro-Trump stickers spaced between my Bernie Sanders, Obama, Alyse Galvin, No Pebble Mine, Keep Tahoe Blue, etc.
Confusing, right? Maybe someone thought I might want to join the derailed “Trump train,” or, as one sticker says: “Trump 2020 — finally someone with balls.” Some sort of misogynistic idea. Probably the only real thought was confusion, a common ailment going around the Trump crowd these days.
No worries to anyone who might have seen the bumper stickers before I noticed and removed them. You can rest assured I haven’t joined the Trump supporters and abandoned science or co-opted the idea of “freedom” with stupidity to ignore Centers for Disease Control guidelines on mask wearing. No chance I’d suddenly be OK with Donald’s more than 20,000 lies or misstatements in the last three and a half years.
I haven’t abandoned hope that Alaska’s elected members of Congress, or at least two out of three of them, might decide moral decency and respect would be more important than standing behind failed party politics. Members of the Senate failed to give Trump a fair impeachment trial in the Senate, leaving us with a president who has failed his responsibility to respond, failed to even comprehend the global pandemic, just more shifting and dodging the blame. Sad.
And of course there’s no chance, no matter what bumper stickers I put on my car, I’ll somehow enter the Trump alternate universe full of conspiracy theories and alternate facts So I hope the bumper sticker bandit kept some stickers for his or her car so we can see which universe they subscribe to. It just reminds me I need to order my Biden/Harris 2020 sticker soon.
— Dean Campodonico
Anchorage
Have something on your mind? Send to letters@adn.com or click here to submit via any web browser. Letters under 200 words have the best chance of being published. Writers should disclose any personal or professional connections with the subjects of their letters. Letters are edited for accuracy, clarity and length.