Presidential election years are annoying years. Here, in Ohio, since we were always declared by the media to be a “battleground” or a “purple” state, growing up, every four years was a preposterous fight between Ds and Rs, between one dumb candidate and their supporters and the other. And they all had campaign signs. Those signs were everywhere. Every intersection. Every yard. Every street. Every place. For someone like me, who figured out a few years back that it really didn’t matter which set of dishonest creeps you voted for, every four years there came a year-long reminder of just how backwards all of politics is.
And so, with all that in mind, we came up with an idea. Have you ever seen that Richard Pryor and John Candy movie called Brewster’s Millions from the 1980s? The premise of that movie is that Brewster (Richard Pryor) has to spend a bunch of money in a month. Here’s the trailer for it. There are a bunch of rules that he has to follow that we don’t need to get into, here. Please, watch it sometime. It’s funny. One of his ideas is to run for political office, only he wouldn’t be the candidate. Instead, he would spend all of his money on a candidate called “None Of The Above.” It turns out to be a really good commentary on the foolishness of politicians and their parties.
We thought, let’s make a bunch of “None Of The Above” shirts. The point being that no matter how red and blue the media wants to make the maps, none of us is red, none of us is blue, and none of us is purple. We’re people. We’re from the United States of America. It’s a cool place, for all its troubles. We’re trying to get better. It really seems to me that politicians and parties aren’t about that, but we are. Let’s stop supporting the candidate we hate the least. Let’s support “None Of The Above,” and let’s start now.
