I'm the liberal democrat here and I wore my plop hats to two handicapping contests.
I posted the reactions before and they were consistent with what others have said they experienced many times.
People who claim they never read plop or even heard of plop immediately recognized the hat.

Their reactions ranged from laughter to questions like "you read that crap?"
Plop is the porn of horse racing.

Nobody will admit to looking at it but they all do it!