For anyone who was sentient back then: Did you ever agree with "America. Love It or Leave It?"

[Stinky The Clown]

This was quite the sentiment in answer to (mainly) anti Viet Nam War protesters. Mostly, but not always, the sentiment was held by mouth breathers and knuckle walkers, most of who are now drooling on their shirts or if still sentient, posting on Free Republic. Given the time frame, not a one of them could be other than a geezer or near-geezer of my own vintage.

Some of them repented.

Was/is this type of sentiment ever a good thing?

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The nub of the question is the word "type." Is this "type" of sentiment ever a good thing?

[snot]

1. Not i.m.h.o.

[Warpy]

2. No, my response was

"You came into my home, pissed on the rug, vomited all over the furniture, and threw cigarettes and beer cans all over the place, but it's still my home! I just want your mess cleaned up.

[DefenseLawyer]

6. All the Dude ever wanted was his rug back. n/t

[LibDemAlways]

3. It was the simplistic meme of non-thinkers then and it still seems to

have traction among the reich wing today. Refusal to utilize one's brain is never a good thing.

[blondeatlast]

4. Nope and nope. nt

[Teaser]

5. I don't love things

I appreciate America. It's done good things for me and my family. But I love maybe four or five individuals in this world, my immediate family, that's it.

I don't love any of my friends and I sure don't love an abstract concept. That makes no sense to me.

[closeupready]

7. It was an expression coined as code for liberal-hate during Vietnam.

And no, I didn't agree with it then, and don't now.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. There is one word in the OP that sets the sight on the money shot:

"type"

Was/is this type of sentiment ever a good thing?

I ask, because this type of sentiment is back (still here?), and not just limited to one point of view. I ask, because as a species, it seems we're regressing.

[blondeatlast]

18. As tempting as it is to apply it to the Teabaggers, no, it is NEVER a good thing.

Simply think of it applying during the Bush years to understand why. Just cuz I loathe the PeeTartiers doesn't mean I want that principle applied during a President Hickabee (SPEW) administration.

[MineralMan]

9. America: Love It And Change It.

That's always been my motto. And I'm a geezer.

[MuseRider]

10. Nope.

I thought it was stupid, a jingle that meant little. It was short sighted and allowed people to make a judgment based on age/looks etc. without having to talk or think. Kinda like these days where everything is a sound bite and then it is taken up and run with by all the media and then the people.

If you can't take the fact that other people have different ideas then you are the one who is more likely to be un-American. Still, is that bad enough to make one leave? We need all the ideas we can muster. Some may be distasteful to others but that does not mean they have no value.

It was always dumb, an assumption made by the weak minded IMO.

[TygrBright]

11. I always agreed with the principle "America, Love it or Leave it."

Except that MY idea of "love" for my country includes trying to make it the best, fairest, most principled, peace-loving, equity-guaranteeing place on Earth.

So, I got a lot of strange looks.

What can I say? I'm a freak. Always was.

amiably,
Bright

[Brother Buzz]

12. The sentiment "My country, right or wrong" was purchased wholesale and never questioned

"My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying My mother, drunk or sober." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

"My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right." - Carl Schurz

[Blue_In_AK]

13. No.

I remember it well, and I didn't like it. However, I must admit I'm tempted to use it sometimes these days.

[Bitwit1234]

14. You can see the difference if you just look and you don't have to dig deep

the Democrats do love this country. They want to provide for the poor and helpless. They want the government to provide a safeguard for the elderly, and the unemployed. They want to rebuild our infrastructure.

But look at the republicans. They scream. They rant. They yell the love America they want THEIR country back. Their country. Well they want a country were the poor fend for themselves, with no jobs and no health care. They want to take away the safety net for seniors and the disabled, social security. Like the asinine governor of NJ they block and dismantle projects that improve the infrastructure. while all the while wanting to give tax cuts, and tax breaks and funnel money to the super rich and corporations.

What kind of "Love America" is that. The problem here is the right wing sh*t spewing media does not inform the public of what the republicans do. The media encourages the public to "hate" and go against America by trying to stop Democrats for their actions to improve and help people. Any body that can't see the difference isn't fit to be and

A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N. And I say get the hell out of OUR AMERICAN country.

[Fozzledick]

I always took a broader view: "Earth - Love It or Leave It!"

If you don't like this planet then go back where you came from!

[HopeHoops]

15. Well what the hell other country is going to TAKE the teabaggers?

:shrug:

[pinboy3niner]

16. Why do they hate the Constitution?

The Founders seem to have thought dissent isn't a bad thing--they went to the trouble of protecting it.

No, that type of sentiment--"Love it or leave it"--is not a good thing, even when it's expressed by progressives.

[OHdem10]

17. America Right or Wrong was much more sinister. Shut up the

Left. No room for criticism of policies of this country.

[damntexdem]

19. Only in the sense of considering leaving it.

;-)

[lillypaddle]

20. nope. n/t

[lunatica]

21. Blind uber patriots are pretty stupid in my opinion

They live in and believe in a reality that just isn't. Unexamined lives are wasted lives.

[jwirr]

22. I absolutely hated that statement. I had as much right to my opinion

and still remain an American as they did. That was the rw bs.