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Originally Posted by August
The problem with catch phrases is they are always too vague.
For instance love what about America? That we enjoy a higher standard of living and personal liberty that anywhere else? If a person hates that then I hope the door does hit them on the butts on their way out.
On the other side of the coin "change it" means many things to different people. The hippies themselves couldn't agree on what to change. Personally I am kind of leery about changing a society that has served us pretty well for the past two centuries. We stand to loose an awful lot if one of these ill conceived social experiments go wrong.
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At that time we took "Love it or leave it" to mean not to oppose government policies, specifically concerning the Vietnam war. "Change it or lose it" was also directed toward those policies. I've seen something similar in recent times. When Clinton was president I saw bumper stickers here in Utah that said "I love my country, but I don't trust the government". When the Patriot Act was passed many of those same conservatives told us we must support the government at all costs.
The hippies weren't the only ones who can't agree on what to change, or what not to change.