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Aristus

(66,075 posts)
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 11:19 AM Jul 2019

America: "Love It Or Leave It".

America: "Love It Or Leave It." That's the schtick they're hitting us with again. Their jive is wearing real thin, considering the fact that that little how-do-you-do has been around for about sixty years. They need to get some new material.

My thing is: since what they want is a country radically different from the one we have right now, aren't they the ones who hate America? Isn't their vision of an all-white, all-straight, male-dominated theocratic military dictatorship as nebulous and unattainable as Utopia, Erewhon, El Dorado, or the Seven Cities of Cibola?


I don't know where they expect to find their longed-for Republic of Gilead, but it ain't here. So denizens of Trumptown, this is America; love it, or......well, you get the idea...

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America: "Love It Or Leave It". (Original Post) Aristus Jul 2019 OP
Reverse the Psychology.... ProudMNDemocrat Jul 2019 #1
Says Putin's puppets. muntrv Jul 2019 #2
I'll counter with a quote from a real Republican. DetlefK Jul 2019 #3
Or, as Stephen Maturin said in the "Master And Commander" novels: Aristus Jul 2019 #4
Consider how rich it is for Skidmore Jul 2019 #5
Step on the flag and I'll beat you is back. IADEMO2004 Jul 2019 #6
Is there an epidemic of flag-stepping going on in this country of which Aristus Jul 2019 #7
tRump pleasuring himself on the flag was the last outrage I've seen. IADEMO2004 Jul 2019 #8
trump: Love him or impeach him Norbert Jul 2019 #9

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
3. I'll counter with a quote from a real Republican.
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 11:27 AM
Jul 2019

Carl Schurz, Republican, General of the Union during the Civil War:
"Our country, right or wrong. When right to be kept right, when wrong to be put right."

Aristus

(66,075 posts)
4. Or, as Stephen Maturin said in the "Master And Commander" novels:
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 11:30 AM
Jul 2019

"I'm not the kind of patriot who says 'My country right or wrong', which is infamous. Nor am I the kind of patriot who says 'My country is always right', which is imbecile."

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
5. Consider how rich it is for
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 11:33 AM
Jul 2019

Herr Fuehrer Bone Spurs to be dragging out that old saw from the Vietnam War era to use as a campaign slogan. AND for all of his arm chair GOP cadets in Congress to parrot it.

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