| Sometimes it seems like we're a nation split in two. | | | | Politicians say what people want to hear and what |
| There is a red half and a blue half, each feeling very | | | | doesn't offend anyone. Or they build a platform of |
| strongly that they right and the other side is wrong. | | | | issues that gives candidates a way of pontificating |
| Before elections, candidates' signs litter our highways, | | | | without really saying anything at all, or committing to |
| streets and yards. Our mailboxes are stuffed with | | | | anything. As punsters, we'd advise to keep things as |
| pamphlets, and negative campaign commercials and | | | | sympol as possible, and we consider clever political |
| infomercials take over our TVs. Everyone has an | | | | T-shirts as sympols of our independence. As long as |
| opinion, but, truth be told, it often looks like we're a | | | | we're all sheepols, why not a T-shirt that humorously |
| nation of sheep, blindly following a party or a | | | | shows that we at least consider ourselves as sheep |
| candidate, and unable to think for ourselves. Well, | | | | that flock, or floc, differently? Or as long as the |
| fortunately not everyone has lost their independence | | | | political parties view us as commodities, why not |
| and sense of humor, and what better way to gently | | | | mock them a bit with clever commodatees Tshirts or |
| poke fun at things or express a different opinion than | | | | younitee shirts? |
| with T-shirts? | | | | There's just plenty of ways to poke fun at the |
| Politics, of course, are important. We all have our | | | | ultra-serious, angry and often sleazy tone of political |
| views and opinions as to how the world should be | | | | debate. I've seen political T-shirts with red or blue |
| and how it should be run. And some of us have the | | | | barcodes that cleverly oppose the concept that |
| urge to express ourselves with clever imagery and | | | | we're political party commodities with a human serial |
| wordplay. If you feel like we the people are really | | | | number. Or clever use of signs and symbols to do |
| sheep in this whole political process, hey, maybe that | | | | anything from gently opposing a concept of idea all |
| makes us sheepol (rhymes with people and has | | | | the way to letting the world know how you really |
| "politics" thrown in) in this demockrasee of ours (yes, | | | | feel. Hey, if there are green T-shirts, environmental |
| we do a bit of mocking here). And maybe we want | | | | T-shirts, and a trillion T-shirts with commercial |
| to use sympols of our independence. And if you think | | | | messages or stupid slogans (I'll never understand why |
| I am making up words, I am not; the urban dictionary | | | | that's considered cool), why not a brainteaser floc |
| defines "sympol" as a simple political symbol | | | | differently T-shirt, a protest commodatees T-shirt, or |
| representing a rhetorical metaphor. And sheeple as | | | | something else that gets the message across? That's |
| folks unable to think for themselves. Mix in "politics" | | | | the least you can do as an independent member of |
| and you have sheepol. Throw it all together and you | | | | the voting block, or floc. Life's political and we live in a |
| have demockrasee T-shirts. | | | | political culture, but no one says you have to be one |
| There are those who believe that miscommunication | | | | of the sheep. |
| is the major problem in American politics today. | | | | |