Reply #1: From my standpoint

[Goldmund]

It isn't about changing minds. It's about making yourself and your views visible to the world around you. The media and the Bushbots would like to believe that everybody's on their side, and that only radical fringes aren't. I put bumper stickers on my car soon after Sept 11th, when that climate of "everybody supports Bush" was in full swing (I don't have any Kerry bumper-stickers, just anti-Bush). I saw it as signifying "you're not alone" to those who thought like me, and "we will resist you" and "we're not afraid of you" to the Bushbots.

Nobody ever vandalized my car (I live in New York). Though I swear that the parking-ticket guy is a Repub.