Political signs. You see them EVERYWHERE. It's one thing when it's in your yard. But does it make sense to have a political sign, no matter which ideology you fancy, displayed loud and proud in front of your business?

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Donovan Adkisson

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All this week, the few instances where I needed to actually go somewhere, something that has

been somewhat striking to me, and it actually somewhat came up in a group that I, a Facebook

group that I'm the admin of, and I created, Tifton Talks.

But what I started seeing earlier this week made me stop and take a moment.

This has to do with political science.

You know the ones I'm talking about, the ones that are either going to say Trump vance or

Harris walls, depending on which way you lean, who has your support, who you want to run

the country for the next four years.

And I get it.

I get it.

If you want to demonstrate, for whatever reason, that that is your political leaning, your

political bias, then by all means, if your covenants or ordinances or what have you that

governs signs for your home allow it, then you do you.

Let your freak flag fly, as they say.

I don't really care.

I know personally, I've thought about it, and I have never put a political sign in my

yard.

Not when I lived in Fitzgerald, which back then I really wasn't that political, but I've

never put one here.

Now that I live in Tifton, I can say in my neighborhood down, we have two roads that

come into our neighborhood down the main road, the one I call the main road because I live

at the end of it about midway down exiting the subdivision on the left hand side.

There is a homeowner that has a Trump vance sign.

Honestly, it does not surprise me.

I do not know this individual personally, but I've seen him around and he's an older

gentleman, nice enough, and I cannot begin to understand what's going through his head

other than what I think is typical of most older people when it comes to supporting Trump.

And for the sake of the topic that I actually want to discuss in this particular episode,

I'm not going to go down that rabbit hole.

But the thing about the signs has struck me because earlier this week, down the road,

probably about I'm going to estimate two miles, one and a half mile, two miles, maybe three.

I haven't actually clocked it that I can recall recently.

There is a convenience store.

I'm not going to name the convenience store, but flanking their multiple entry points in

to their facility, their driveways, because they're sitting at the corner of two roads.

There's at least four different ways to get into this place.

And flanking pretty much all of those driveways are Trump-Vance political signs.

Now, I suppose that if you are a Trump supporter, that's probably right up your alley.

You probably look at that and you're like, hey, I'm going to support that business because,

well, they apparently their values align with my values and my values align with their values

because we're both Trump supporters.

But then you have someone like me who wouldn't piss on the motherfucker if he was on fire.

And I see those signs and not that I did much business with this place anyway, especially

since I don't I don't drink anymore.

It used to be a place where I'd stop off and grab a six pack or 12 pack, whatever beer

years ago, maybe a few times would get gas.

But they're outdated.

Their pumps are busted most of the time when it comes to credit cards.

And as a side note, if I've got to walk in and pay for my gas, I'm not going to get gas

from your establishment.

Call me an elitist if you want to.

I don't give a shit.

But it is solidified the fact that I will not do business with this establishment.

And I've started noticing that in various places around town and unfortunately, some

of these are clients of mine.

They have political signs prominently in front of their places of business.

And that disturbs me.

It disturbs me on two fronts.

One, it lets me know who they support.

And these are people that I wouldn't necessarily have thought that they would support someone

like him.

But OK, now I know I've already cut ties with one of my other clients because they were

a staunch, hardcore Trump supporter back when he ran in 2016.

I don't have anything to do with that client anymore.

But here's the thing.

I would I think I would feel the same way if they had a Harris-Walz political sign in

front of their business.

I personally don't think that it is in your business's best interest to advertise your

political leaning.

I just don't think it's good for business.

Because think about it.

When you are when you are a business, when you are in business, when you this is your

livelihood, you are catering to everyone.

You may not like everyone.

You may not agree with everyone.

But the point is, you want to provide a product.

You want to provide a service to everyone.

And when you put your political ideology on display, I think that's bad for business because

OK, so not maybe everyone will feel like I do.

But again, I'm not saying this necessarily because I can't stand Trump and Vance.

But again, if they had put a Democratic sign on there, you know, even back when it was

Biden-Harris and now it's Harris-Walz, I don't think that's a good idea.

If I had an office in town, I would not put a political sign there because my business

is not political.

My business is to provide a product or a service, the best quality product, the best quality

service that I can to my customers so that they appreciate what it is I have to offer.

They pay me and they'll come back and solicit my services or buy my products again.

We can have differences of opinions when it comes to political ideology.

And if we decide that at some point that we're friendly enough that we might want to have

a cordial conversation about that, that's fine.

But to just blatantly display I'm for this side of the ticket or I'm for that side of

the ticket is bad for business.

Now, granted, I know that living down here in the South, I'm going to see predominantly

Trump-Vance signs.

It's just the nature of the beast.

We happen to be a part of the group that are a little bit more oddball.

We're not religious.

We're centrist leaning a little to the left, not Republicans.

We believe in a woman's right to choose.

We believe that it should be easier to vote and not harder.

That's a completely different story that I might get into or topic that I might get into

later with all the bullshit and shenanigans that are going on here in Georgia with them

trying to make it even harder for people to vote, because when it comes right down to

it, and I'm going to slide off in a ditch a little bit here, the only way Republicans

can win nowadays is if they do the one thing, the one thing that they keep blaming and saying

that Democrats are doing, but it's projection because the only way Republicans can win is

to cheat.

That's it.

When it comes down to the real issues, they fall flat on their faces.

But back to the political signs.

Again, to iterate my point and to wrap this up, I don't think it's in your best interest

to display your political ideology in front of your business, because if you lean left

and you put a Democratic sign up, you're probably going to piss off some people that are Republicans

and support Trump.

They don't want to do business with you anymore.

And then you're going to wind up with people like me that I see the Trump Vance signs.

And now I'm having to rethink who I'm going to do business with.

And it's even worse, like I said, when these signs are in front of one of my own clients'

place of business.

It's a sticky situation.

What do you think?

What what's your thought on political signs in general?

Do you want to have them in your yard?

I think it's a safety issue, especially here in the South.

And if you're if you're not not with the crowd, especially like I say down here, if you're

not with the crowd, Trump Vance, then it's probably a safety issue not to put this Harris

Walls sign in your yard, even though that is the right thing to do and that is the right

ticket to vote for.

But more to the point, political signs in front of a place of business.

What do you think about that?

Let me know.

Email me.

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