{"id":2043,"date":"2019-07-16T11:11:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T15:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2019-07-16T11:11:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T15:11:48","slug":"america-love-it-or-leave-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2019\/07\/16\/america-love-it-or-leave-it\/","title":{"rendered":"America &#8211; Love It or Leave It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"123\" data-attachment-id=\"2044\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2019\/07\/16\/america-love-it-or-leave-it\/ahb2014q013049\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/deliveryService.jpeg?fit=550%2C123&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"550,123\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Bumper sticker, \\&quot;America\/ Love It or Leave It.\\&quot; PL*321807.15.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;This image was obtained from the Smithsonian Institution. 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got a draft card, a physical, and most were declared 1-A, eligible to be drafted.\u00a0\u00a0Students on campus were demonstrating, protesting, sitting-in, and sometimes rioting and burning; all in protest against the War.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fearing Change<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Protest didn\u2019t just mean marching on campus.&nbsp;&nbsp;It meant long hair, \u201chippie\u201d clothes, and music that \u201cwasn\u2019t their fathers\u2019\u201d Sinatra and Doris Day.&nbsp;&nbsp;It also meant alternative mind altering drugs, marijuana and LSD.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Parents sent their kids to college and saw them come back \u2013 different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Lyndon Johnson was the prime author of the Civil Rights legislation.&nbsp;&nbsp;He was also the prime proponent of the War in Vietnam.&nbsp;&nbsp;In a nation torn by riots, protests and counter protests, he seemed unable to find a way to stop the violence.&nbsp;&nbsp;He chose not to run for re-election in 1968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin Luther King was assassinated.\u00a0\u00a0So was Bobby Kennedy.\u00a0\u00a0Some white Americans longed for simpler times, only a decade or so before.\u00a0\u00a0Those times were still in view, in re-runs of\u00a0<em>Father Knows Best,  My Three Sons and Leave it to Beaver.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Those Americans were tired of the disruption and violence.\u00a0\u00a0They were exhausted from all of the change.\u00a0\u00a0Their view was summed up by a bumper sticker:\u00a0an American Flag and the words \u201cAmerica \u2013 Love it or Leave It.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Segregation Forever<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Democratic Governor of Alabama George Wallace gained national fame by opposing desegregation.&nbsp;He blocked the door of the University of Alabama registrar\u2019s office when Federal agents led black students to enter the school.&nbsp;&nbsp;While he finally stepped aside (Federal agents were faced off against Alabama troopers) the words of his inaugural address were clear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cIn the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wallace didn\u2019t start out as a racist.&nbsp;&nbsp;He took up the segregationist stand as a way to enhance his political career in Alabama, after losing the 1958 Gubernatorial nomination.&nbsp;&nbsp;It wasn\u2019t a \u201cchildhood\u201d belief, it was a cynical political choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1968 he offered Americans his \u201calternative\u201d back to \u201csimpler\u201d racist times.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cAmerica \u2013 Love it or Leave It\u201d summed up his campaign program.&nbsp;When he was unable to gain the Democratic nomination (Vice President Hubert Humphrey became the candidate) he ran under the American Independent Party.&nbsp; He gained the support of five Southern states, and also disaffected white workers in the rest of the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Political Calculation<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Our Country is Free, Beautiful and Very Successful. If you hate our Country, or if you are not happy here, you can leave!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not a campaign statement from Wallace, though it certainly is something he would say.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is Tuesday\u2019s morning Tweet from the President of the United States Donald Trump.&nbsp;&nbsp;Like Wallace, he is appealing to the basest instincts of American society, demanding that those who oppose him leave the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We will never be a Socialist or Communist Country. IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY HERE, YOU CAN LEAVE! It is your choice, and your choice alone. This is about love for America. Certain people HATE our Country&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump claims that he is not a racist.\u00a0\u00a0But perhaps he is even worse; like George Wallace he is making a cold political calculation.\u00a0\u00a0His strategists  determined that they can appeal to latent fear in enough white Americans, particularly white American men, to win the 2020 election.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He appeals to the worst in America:&nbsp;&nbsp;fear of \u201cbrown-people,\u201d hatred of women in power, and the illusion that somehow America was better when it was segregationist, racist and misogynist.&nbsp;It is the underlying theme of \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d and the Trump rallies.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Americans Are Better<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It serves his political needs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America is in an era of change.&nbsp;&nbsp;We now recognize the equality and value of all races, genders, ethnicities, and religions.&nbsp;&nbsp;It happened fast, and change is happening even faster.&nbsp;&nbsp;White people will not be the majority of Americans within twenty years.&nbsp;For some of those white people, it is scary.&nbsp;&nbsp;They want to go back to the \u201cgood old days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But most realize that the \u201cgood old days\u201d were only good for some.&nbsp;They know that America is better than the 1950\u2019s, and George Wallace, and the future offered us by President Trump.&nbsp;We are a nation of hope, not of fear.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George Wallace had some success, but ultimately was rejected by America.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Donald Trump\u2019s return to Wallace\u2019s themes will be rejected as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time of Turmoil It was 1968.&nbsp;&nbsp;Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement was largely successful in achieving legal racial equality, with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.&nbsp;&nbsp;But legal equality was different than social equality.&nbsp;While laws discriminating against minorities were illegal, but it didn\u2019t change &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2019\/07\/16\/america-love-it-or-leave-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;America &#8211; Love It or Leave It&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>America - Love It or Leave It : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"History rhymes again -- Trump echoes the racism of the 1960&#039;s for political gain. 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