"We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at each other and the first one to cover the other one wins"
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The specific intent is to puncture the self-seriousness of “both sides” posturing while also mocking the participants: the left and the right are reduced to brand managers, each convinced that the right combination of words can instantly own the other team. “Cover the other one” is the key verb. It’s not about disproving an argument, it’s about smothering it - drowning nuance under layers of identity signals until the opponent disappears as a person and becomes a target surface.
There’s also a media critique baked in. Bumper stickers are made to be glanced at in traffic: high-speed, low-information, engineered for recognition rather than reflection. Cross is pointing at a culture where attention is scarce, outrage is efficient, and complexity is punished. The humor isn’t gentle; it’s a diagnosis delivered as a sight gag. If our politics is already performative, he’s daring us to admit it and stop calling the performance democracy.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Cross, David. (2026, January 17). We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at each other and the first one to cover the other one wins. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-should-just-get-somebody-from-the-left-and-the-49451/
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Cross, David. "We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at each other and the first one to cover the other one wins." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-should-just-get-somebody-from-the-left-and-the-49451/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at each other and the first one to cover the other one wins." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-should-just-get-somebody-from-the-left-and-the-49451/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
