Crass political signs

I’ve read a lifetime of articles about political signs in recent weeks, most focused on the criminal removal of signs from private property. Every American should have the right to voice political views and the right to display those views should he or she choose to do so.

But when I drive my kids a mile and a half to North Park for bike rides, we pass a slew of profane signs on both private property and public intersections supporting our current president’s re-election. The crass language on the signs has generated some layered conversations with my kids, which I’m begrudgingly willing to have, but who are these signs-intended to persuade?

It seems to me that the signs are a form of virtue signaling or whatever the opposite of that term is, and that if a 7-year-old can understand their poor taste and likely lack of efficacy, how is it so hard for adults to realize their obnoxious public displays do more to encourage voting against their candidate than for him?

JON PARKER McCandless