What does "Love it or leave it" mean to you?

[Rocknrule]

To me, it means "Love Bush or leave it"

[Marr]

1. It means "shut-up".

It's clearly not "my team, right or wrong", since the people spouting that phrase were certainly not "loving it" when Clinton was in office. Like all right wing slogans, it's hollow, self-contradictory, hypocritical bullshit meant to shut down debate- not facilitate it.

[unpossibles]

to me it means

profess to love America, but in reality don't actually use/celebrate any of the rights which people have died defending and/or creating. Or leave it.



And if the President is a liberal, then it is your duty to use all of those rights (and then some) in the attempt to bring him down.*



* I added this because I don't recall Lefties ever telling the Montana Freemen or "small government" activist Repukes or "keep your hands off my trust fund" Libertarians to "love it or leave it" during Clinton's terms.

[Epiphany4z]

2. It means

who cares what you think you are expendable get out!

[hyphenate]

3. Well

It's been around for many years, and I always found it quite a contrary phrase. It was used during the Vietnam era, and it was essentially, go to Vietnam as a soldier for the US, or get the hell out of the country, period.

The unfortunate thing is, some people DID decide to leave, and got into trouble as conscientious objectors. So how wrong is that? They WANT you to leave, but block your path to leaving!

I would like to rephrase it: "Love the rich, protect us, or be sent to jail." Doesn't that sum it up a lot better?

[rusty charly]

4. i see that bumper sticker

occasionally, where i live, and i think about a dem dominated administration, and how they will feel then? will this adage still be operable for these people then?

somehow, i doubt it.

then they'll be screaming: "take our country back!"

[salinen]

5. When corruption and greed are

where they like it, that's when they spew "Love it or Leave it".

[napi21]

6. Oh, I'm sure that's the type of people who usually say that!

That ONLY works if a group is in total control and with such a large majority there's no chance of ever changing things. I'm sure that's what they'd like to think, but it sure looks to me like they're loosing their supporters. Perhapse, in the near future, youll be able to use those sames words back to them!

[Solly Mack]

7. When I hear "love it or leave it"

I think - sad, sad person. Lot of fear and misdirected anger behind those words. If ignorance is so blissful, why are these people so miserable?

[arwalden]

15. Perfect!!

<< If ignorance is so blissful, why are these people so miserable? >>

:thumbsup:

:hi:

[Solly Mack]

21. Hey you!

Maybe they don't know what's causing their misery? Maybe that's the blissfully ignorant part?lol...I dunno...but they - they being the self-loathing and fearful - are some truly miserable folk.

[xchrom]

8. nothing.

[bunkerbuster1]

9. Back 35 years ago when I saw it on bumper stickers

I thought it meant "I'm a knuckle-dragging simpleton who'll eat any shit I'm fed and ask for seconds."

But I haven't seen it or heard it for a long time. And I live in a very red part of the world.

[acmejack]

10. It tells me there is a dumbass inside of the vehicle it is attached to

A cretin who thinks I have no constitutional rights since I choose to disagree with a criminal administration and warmongering Congress. That my military service entitles me to nothing, but that their faux news watching makes THEM an uber-patriot.

Most of all it tells me they are completely ignorant about what this Country is about.

If they put their money where their mouth is and said here is ten grand to get lost, I would take them up on it.

[bowens43]

11. To me, it is an indication

that the person who said it is a f*cking idiot and no further conversation is necessary.

[endarkenment]

12. It tells me that the deadly serious culture war that started

in the 60s (or really a bit earlier) is still going strong and that in fact we are losing.

[sui generis]

13. "I like catchy phrases as long as they're catchy"

"I'm a dim bulb"

"Robb is a dingbat"

[307 MMS]

14. Phrase

As a 'Nam campaign vet, to me it meant....."Oh yeah!!! How 'bout "America, change it or LOSE IT"!!! If we don't get to changin' quick, we will lose it to the people who could give a shit about vets or anyhting else, with that turd with legs Rove being the worst thing that ever happened to this country. Goddamn it, what the hell did I serve for, for this shit we've had shoved down our throats!??? NOT!!!

[ComerPerro]

16. It means that every Conservative should have left the US during the 90s

because, when Clinton was president, they hated everything about this country

[valerief]

17. Just another trite saying to appeal to morons.

It says, "Don't think. Just take it (their crap) or take off."

[WCGreen]

18. Battered Country Syndrome....

[mcscajun]

19. It means whoever utters it is an unthinking jingoistic moran

and of course, for the target of the utterrance, "Why don't you shut up and go away?"

John Quincy Adams is who I think of when this stupid phrase comes up, as these fools don't know what loving their country truly means.

"I can never join with my voice in the toast which I see in the papers attributed to one of our gallant naval heroes. I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. Fiat justitia, pereat coelum*. My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right." -- in a letter to John Adams (August 1, 1816)

He was referring to a contemporary and popular phrase "My Country, Right or Wrong!" taken from Stephen Decatur's famous toast: "Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, but our country, right or wrong."

*Let justice be done though heaven should fall.

[nonconformist]

20. I means the person has absolutely no clue what this country is about

Not one fucking clue what ideas and principles this country was founded on.

It means fascism.