Living in a rural, red area can create a siege mentality this year

[NickB79]

So many Trump signs in yards. So many Trump bumper stickers. I haven't put up any yard signs because I genuinely feel like I'd be painting a target on my family. Pretty sure the next door neighbors have a suspicion to my liberalism, what with the Prius in the driveway. My Trump-loving co-workers, some of whom live down the road, definitely know.

I'm seriously considering keeping my primary rifle loaded and unlocked the closer we get to the election. This is insane.

[dameatball]

1. Don't worry about getting a yard sign if it bothers you. I think that there actually have been ZERO

voters ever whose minds have been changed by a yard sign. Just do whatever else you can to help the cause.

[Chainfire]

2. I see things exactly the same way

To put up a Biden sign would be asking for some redneck to vandalize my property. If you judged by the yard signs, flags and banners, Trump is winning by a landslide in my area. I think that the truth may be somewhat different.

I am glad that the right-wingers are identifying themselves. I now know better who to avoid.

[CrispyQ]

3. Listen to poster #1.

I just have to worry that my sign will get stolen, not that me or my family might be harmed. So sad that it's come to this.

Stay safe!

[Ptah]

4. This is insane.

I'm seriously considering keeping my primary rifle loaded and unlocked the closer we get to the election.

[NickB79]

21. A couple guys at the factory are all about shooting Antifa and BLM supporters

They make it known very loudly in the break room. HR doesn't give a fuck.

All it takes is one of these nuts cracking to pose a danger. My wife is non-white, in a very white community. She's been followed home by the cops, almost certainly due to her skin color, so I don't trust them much either to protect us.

[moonscape]

22. I am so sorry your family is having to live with this :(

My heart breaks with every story, every situation.

Stay safe.

[calguy]

5. I live in a rural red area.

There are a few trump signs and flags out. Generally we don't talk politics when we talk. If politics does come up, I try to change the subject. It's better that way. These folks are my friends and they are good people. I see no reason to discount their entire being just based on their political preference. This election season will be over in a few months. My relationship with these people will last a lifetime.

[Lars39]

9. Anyone who still supports that orange pile of shit is a POS themselves.

You just haven't dug down deep enough. They're only nice to you because you look like them. Be a different color, be gay, etc and they will interact with you totally different.

[calguy]

11. Yes they would

But I'm not a different color, not gay, etc. ---- I will vote against them at the voting booth, I don't see the value of fighting pointless and unwinnable verbal battles with them.

[Lars39]

12. You've chosen your tribe.

[calguy]

16. I've chosen where to live.

The tribe is the baggage that comes with the territory. I choose to make the best ofit.

[moonscape]

23. My best friend since 3rd grade lives in very very

red county in NC. She and her husb are liberals and I asked once how she deals with it.

She said they maintain acquaintences veering away from anything remotely political, but all their close friends are liberal also. They managed to find their tribe in the middle of the deep red, so it has worked out for them.

But, they are both the activist type and it would be hard to be close with someone who's a Trumper.

[Blue_true]

24. I do business with a lot of them. Some prove to be a POS, I discontinue dealing with

them. Others are honest, decent people that just have a fucked up view on some societal issues. A person should not throw away important relationships because people are not perfect, you just keep working on them and hope that the full humanity that exists in them eventually push past their darker impulses.

[Lars39]

26. I might have agreed before he went full nazi.

But now? Nope.

[WorkDoctor]

6. Getting even: MAGAt hat wearer with mandated mask

by state or store policy. Great juxtaposition. I just smile (which they can't see). Ain't no rally here.

[jcgoldie]

20. My wife has a stand at the farmer's market every saturday

I went down to visit her a couple weeks ago... you'd be surprised at the number of Trump 2020 MASKS I saw down there... guess they came for the racism but don't feel like staying for the covid...

[Loryn]

7. I am in a red part of a blue state

Biden signs are stolen as soon as they are put up. We have a wonderful group of brave BLM souls, quietly standing
in town every afternoon. They are harassed by the trumpers, who also have no problem showing their manhood,
er weapons.

I haven't put up signs since Obama's second election. I don't feel safe.

[redstatebluegirl]

15. The problem is these supporters don't have much in the way of "manhood", small penis disease

is rampant with this crowd.

[phylny]

19. I'm relieved that my subdivision (which is NOT fancy at all) does not allow signs of any kind.

So, I don't have to see Trump signs or worry about putting up a Biden sign.

I'm in a Red part of Blue Virginia.

[Bayard]

8. Same here

I don't want my horses or dogs shot, property vandalized. My husband is even afraid if I put a Biden sticker on the truck, some asshole will follow me home.

Big trump area here in small town, KY.

[moonscape]

25. I'm in one of the bluest CA counties, and

had a bumper sticker made a while back "Biden 2020 - He won't inject you with bleach"

However, I put it in the window and not sure I'd leave my car a long time in the street. Mostly I'm in and out quickly (medical appts) and car is garaged, but those fanatics are crazy and exist everywhere. There aren't a lot here, but all it takes is one at the right time and place.

[RKP5637]

10. I never do yard signs or bumper stickers, because there are way too many crazies running

around these days. All it takes is one. How pathetic this has become. The ass in the White House just promotes and embraces negativity not only in the US, but across the world. He's like a black hole for anything good.

[SharonClark]

13. This might make you feel better. . .

A home on a hugh corner lot a couple of miles down the street always has a 6' x 8' republican sign for every election. Two months ago, a Joni Ernst sign went up. I noticed today it is no longer there.

At a house about 2 blocks from my house, the owner was flying a trump banner on a 2-story flag pole. Then he added a "Biden Works for Iowa" sign that he had changed to "Biden Works for Biden". The anti-Biden sign was there one day. Last week he replaced the trump banner with an ISU banner. Every one of his neighbors has a Biden sign.

[maxsolomon]

14. The good thing about the country

Is that there aren't a lot of people there.

[Blue_true]

27. The thing is.

The vast majority of country people work in cities or suburbs, they would not be able to support themselves otherwise. They bring their backward thinking into work, but tread lightly to not get their asses fired for cause.

[totodeinhere]

17. Since you are in such a red area I would doubt if putting up a Biden yard sign

would make any difference anyway. I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.

[jcgoldie]

18. Same boat... they steal my Biden sign as they did with my Hillary signs but...

The Democratic precinct man came out and put up 6 other signs for downballot races and those they always leave alone... either they only care about Trump or they just don't know who any of those other people are... probably both...

[Dagstead Bumwood]

28. I don't know that you're Prius is unmasking your liberalism.

I have a cousin that supported Gary Johnson in 2016 but is now supporting Trump, and he drives a Prius. He does a lot of driving and it gets great mileage, of course. So even the deplorables know a bargain when they see it. But, I digress.

I really wanted to post about my neighborhood's sign situation. There are now two house near us sporting large Biden signs/flags. I think people are starting to grow weary of hiding their opposition to Trump. My wife is still hesitant to let me put one up, though.