{"id":797689,"date":"2019-07-16T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=368852"},"modified":"2019-07-16T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T17:33:00","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-progressives-are-always-told-america-love-it-or-leave-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-progressives-are-always-told-america-love-it-or-leave-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Progressives are always told: \u2018America: Love it or leave it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a baby boomer who lived through the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and other progressive leaders followed by the discussion of the need for gun control. I lived through the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and its protests,&nbsp;the Watergate scandal and the birth of the environmental movement. I lived through the resulting divides these issues brought to the American people and the general distrust of the government and big business.<\/p>\n<p>I&nbsp;made a choice to become progressive. Dressed in blue jeans and wearing my hair long, I was&nbsp;often told, \u201cAmerica: Love it or leave it.\u201d&nbsp;Which leads me to wonder to this day why when a progressive doesn\u2019t like what the government is doing, they are told: \u201cAmerica: Love it or leave it.\u201d But when a conservative doesn\u2019t like where the government is going, it\u2019s always because \u201cit\u2019s not American to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-progressives-are-always-told-america-love-it-or-leave-it\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a baby boomer who lived through the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and other progressive leaders followed by the discussion of the need for gun control. I lived through the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and its protests,&nbsp;the Watergate scandal and the birth of the environmental movement. I lived through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-797689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 00:32:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}