People Don’t Make Wars Governments Do Iron on Patch

Here is an interesting patch for The Cheap Place customers who enjoy using their clothing to make political statements. It reads, ‘People don’t make wars, governments do’. It’s an interesting statement on many levels.The profundity of it all might not matter to you. You might just like this embroidered patch because you think it’s cool. Great. Go ahead and get one for yourself. Maybe get three or four so you can decorate several articles of clothing. For the rest of us, there’s an opportunity to dig a little deeper here.The sentiment expressed by this biker patch is pretty simple. It boils down to the belief that governments are ultimately responsible for conducting war. In principle, this is true. But governments are made up of people. So it’s also fair to say that people make war. It is just that, in this country, We the People aren’t directly responsible. Our elected leaders are.That’s probably the crux of the matter for most people who would buy this particular patch. It’s a sentiment that reflects growing dissatisfaction with state and federal officials who seem to do whatever they want irrespective of what voters demand. We say we want one thing, but they do something entirely different.Digging even deeper, it’s ironic that the biker culture (which is our primary customer base) was started largely by returning war vets who felt they didn’t fit in back home. Bikes represented a certain freedom. They represented an opportunity to walk away from war and the government that forced them into it.We get why bikers would appreciate the People Don’t Make Wars Governments Do iron-on patch. But you don’t have to be a biker to buy and wear it. You just need to appreciate embroidered patches and agree with the message.