The 'love it or leave it' nonsense (From 50 years ago)

[kpete]

I spent today with a man whose mom saved the July 21, 1969 Chicago Daily News for the moon landing coverage. (Column coming tomorrow.) It also contained this op-ed. 50 years ago. Unbelievable.

Link to tweet

[handmade34]

1. well said

and much needed to be said now...

[Arkansas Granny]

2. This should be required reading.

[pazzyanne]

5. I just posted it to my Facebook page!

It is a great refresher course on why the United States came into being. A place for a fresh, new start to life where "all men(and women) are created equal". Time for some of us to remember this!

[Ohiogal]

3. Obviously

As a country we haven’t progressed at all.

[Chellee]

14. This actually makes me more hopeful.

It was an horrible time then. People were equally as awful. And we came through it, and improved. Yes, it's a constant struggle. Yes, it's two steps forward and one step back. Yes, the progress is slow and incremental, but it is relentless. Despite them, we are moving forward. And we will keep moving forward. We have been in this place before and we prevailed.

[5X]

4. I remember reading this back than, they must have run it in one of the

Tulsa papers. I was 15 and a half, just got my learners permit. My brother had
sold me his old car when he went in the navy.
I put on of these stickers on that car for one day, read this and removed it.

This is when I became a lefty.

[dwayneb]

6. Awesome find

Just started a thread on a similar topic. We like to pretend that we have left the Jim Crow era behind us, but there is no doubt that racism and white privilege still run strong in the heartland of this country.

[Oppaloopa]

16. WOW

[sarge43]

7. "What the people want is very simple.

They want an America as good as its promise."

Barbara Jordan.

[FakeNoose]

8. This was Nixon's theme during his administration

If you love America, then you must support - ME! You must support the Vietnam War because that's what the real patriotic Americans want.

Of course Nixon's whole story changed after Watergate hit the fan. But the "Love it or leave it" nonsense was how he got re-elected by a landslide. He made people forget that in 1968 he ran on a pledge to end the Vietnam War. Four years later, the war was still going on and Nixon had no intention of ending it.

However this newspaper columnist in 1969 shows that not everyone was buying it, even then. I'll bet he voted for McGovern.

[volstork]

17. And nixon treasonously

sabotaged Johnson's Vietnam peace talks in order to win the election in 1968 by perpetuating the war.

[FakeNoose]

19. Yes he did!

May he rot in hell, along with Ronald Reagan.

[ancianita]

9. Same shit. Every generation. It's such tired, old school noise, it oughtta be laughed out of town.

[Martin Eden]

10. America -- Love it and Make it Better

Those who say "love it or leave it" are unwittingly or deliberately trying to destroy the foundation of America's true greatness -- the free exchange of ideas in the continuing endeavor to form a more perfect unuion.

[RazBerryBeret]

11. Amazing Find

I'm sharing on FB, not that any of my Trumpster relatives will agree or heed, but it will hopefully make them think about it... if that's even possible.

[volstork]

15. Brilliant.

Thank you for sharing. Seems nothing ever changes...

[calimary]

20. Great find!

Everything old is new again. Just with a different year on its label.

This is a real keeper!

[the_sly_pig]

21. America: Love it or give it back

Saw this bumper sticker on the back of a pickup truck driven by a Native American today at the gas station. Loved it.

[ooky]

22. "Love it or leave it" has long been a talking point of those who

hate our Constitution and the freedoms it affords to all our citizens. It is unpatriotic, anti-American, and anti-democracy. And, it was on full display by the anti-Americans chanting at our anti-American president's racist, fascist rally on Wednesday night.

[airplaneman]

23. I remember the America Love it or Leave it bumper stickers on cars

The counter bumper sticker was
America Change it or Loose it.
Another one that caught my attention around this time was the:
To have Peace, one must Prepare for War.
Although I never saw a counter to this one in my mind I would say.
Those that Prepare for War, Get It.
-Airplane

[misanthrope]

24. Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

[ck4829]

25. K&R