Stifling Democracy

Some Ponderments on "Love It or Leave It"

We hear these words from time to time, "America: love it or leave it." It sure makes for a rousing, heart-thumping cliche, but what does it really mean to tell someone that? Would the founding fathers, who enshrined the right to free speech in the U.S. Constitution making it the FIRST amendment,* ever say such words to their contemporaries who dissented…