{"id":7371,"date":"2024-09-22T08:35:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T12:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=7371"},"modified":"2024-09-22T09:19:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T13:19:25","slug":"looking-for-a-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2024\/09\/22\/looking-for-a-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Sign, sign, Everywhere a sign, Blocking out the scenery,&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Breakin\u2019 my mind, Do this, Don\u2019t do that,<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Can\u2019t you read the sign?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>&#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CxrsVV5N06I\">Signs<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Five Man Electrical Band, 1971 (re-recorded by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HE17huAYb6U\"> Tesla<\/a>, 2007)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Polarization<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For the past decade, the polarization of the United States was best defined by a simple drive.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the city, there are few political signs, except in the carefully defined sixty days before the elections (a city ordinance that was ultimately declared unconstitutional, but still honored).&nbsp;&nbsp;But get past the outer-belt, where concrete buildings turn into suburban homes, and then alternating fields of corn and soybeans; and, signs change.&nbsp;&nbsp;For almost a decade, the informal \u201cdefinition\u201d of the countryside wasn\u2019t a John Deere tractor or a Rural King store.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was thousands of \u201cTrump\u201d signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not just signs either.&nbsp;&nbsp;There were Trump flags, Trump billboards (Trump-Pence until after January 6<sup>th<\/sup>), Trump mannikins (get your picture taken with \u201chim\u201d); and for the stouter supporters, first the \u201cJail Hillary\u201d, then \u201cF**K Biden\u201d flags in Trump colors. (One particular large F-Biden flag was displayed across the street from a neighboring middle school.&nbsp;&nbsp;I wonder how the social studies teachers handled that).&nbsp;&nbsp;I live in a \u201cred\u201d portion of Ohio, ten miles outside of the outer-belt, so Trump stuff wasn\u2019t a surprise to me.&nbsp;&nbsp;But to my \u201ccity-mouse friends\u201d, out for a drive; there was often shock and fear.&nbsp;&nbsp;They were in TRUMP COUNTRY, and they were unnerved by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fractured Arc<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016, before the great catastrophe of the November election, it was easy to shrug off Trump.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Nation seemed on a pre-destined course, Dr. King\u2019s \u201carc of the moral universe\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;Barack Obama was elected and re-elected by large majorities, the next logical step was Hillary.&nbsp;&nbsp;The path of the American experiment was clear.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was easy to see Trump-ism as only a small portion of our Nation quailing from the future; seeking to return to a fictional past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if you took a drive, you\u2019d know differently.&nbsp;&nbsp;The signs were everywhere, establishing an unwritten \u201ccode\u201d of uniformity.&nbsp;&nbsp;Fealty to Trump became a \u201ccondition\u201d of living out here.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Only the courageous few had Hillary or Biden signs.&nbsp;&nbsp;And while in my neighborhood those political aberrations were somewhat tolerated, in conversation we were \u201cthose people\u201d who thought different.&nbsp;&nbsp;I appreciated my neighbors who could get beyond \u201csigns\u201d, but I also realize there are neighbors who haven\u2019t had much to say since 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016 Trump-ism drove voters to the polls.&nbsp;&nbsp;In our narrowly divided country, voter \u201cturnout\u201d is king, and in 2016 the \u201ccountry-mouse vote\u201d showed up for him.&nbsp;&nbsp;The city-mouse vote did not show up for her, so Hillary lost by the slimmest of 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overwhelmingly on election day despite the risk of Covid.&nbsp;&nbsp;Joe Biden got the most votes ever in a Presidential election, and won just a narrowly as Trump did in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Last Summer Drive<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>And the signs still stayed up, for a while.&nbsp;&nbsp;But wind and rain and snow took its toll on the Trump\/Pence signs, even the ones with Pence\u2019s name cut off.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And while the stalwarts still had their flags, it seemed to dwindle.&nbsp;&nbsp;A drive in the country might yield only a few \u201cTrump\u201d sightings, not the back-to-back-to-back of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now we are in 2024, less than fifty days before the election.&nbsp;&nbsp;I took a drive yesterday down to Lancaster, Ohio to see one of my favorite cross country meets.&nbsp;&nbsp;Like many of those late September competitions, it was mid-summer hot with high pushing ninety.&nbsp;&nbsp;So I took my Jeep, top up but all of the windows out.&nbsp;&nbsp;(It\u2019s almost time to go \u201cwinter\u201d mode on it).&nbsp;&nbsp;A kind of last \u201csummer\u201d drive in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Give me a Sign<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>And what surprised me is what I didn\u2019t see.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sure, there were a few \u201cTrump\/Vance\u201d signs, but not many (maybe seven or eight).&nbsp;&nbsp;And there were actually some homes along the highway that dared a Harris\/Walz sign (a couple).&nbsp;&nbsp;So I\u2019ve been trying to decide what that means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does it mean that the \u201ccountry-mouse\u201d vote is less Trumpy?&nbsp;&nbsp;I don\u2019t believe it; at least here in Pataskala, the \u201cbattle lines\u201d are still clearly drawn.&nbsp;&nbsp;But does it mean that the \u201ccountry\u201d isn\u2019t as motivated as they were in 2016 and 2020; aren\u2019t as dedicated to MAGA as they were before?&nbsp;&nbsp;And will that dedication result in a lesser turnout, coupled with a greater 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