Don't demonize Musk by calling him a foreigner

[SixteenTons]

32. Yep...saw this yesterday and said basically WTF.

"He's not American. He doesn't know about our democracy. He doesn't know about our processes."

--Rep. Annie Kuster (D-N.H.)


As others stated in this thread, there's plenty to go after Musk on without that proclamation. I'm thinking to myself, here's someone representing leadership of a party that supposedly defends immigrants and says something like that. The implication is clear on her real view of immigrants, after that statement, and a cursory look into other statements in her history. Her entire view of immigration is broken down into one overriding thing... "we" need "them" here to bolster "our economy." The objectification of immigrants, as nothing other than a unit in the labor force "to serve us." Who will pick "our fruit", who will pick "our crops", who will "serve us" as we sit back and get fat and large off "our investment portfolios" in "our economy." Annie Kuster was far from alone in making that case. It's got nothing to do with giving a shit about immigrants with that crowd. It's about getting cheap labor, to continue on with a system that thrives on savage inequality, to serve the top 10-20 percent of the economic pyramid that benefits from that savage inequality. People then turn around and ask why the Democratic Party is viewed as elitist. Well, there's one answer.