"love it or leave it"

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> YBQ has "America: Love it or Leave it" under "Political Slogans," dated to
> the Vietnam years.
>
> That's when I first heard it.

Yes, but I've always interpreted

_leave it_

as

"go back where you came from" / "go to someplace that you like better"
/ "get TF OUT!"

whereas

"leave it alone"

seems milder, much milder, as it travels the thought to your mind.
More like, well, if it bothers you, then forget it. Sorry I asked.

--
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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