ShortJohnSilver
13th December 2015, 08:37 PM
The publisher of Forbes magazine posted this on his FB feed in answer to a question:
Let me reaffirm, before I answer, that I am 100% for the idea that America is primarily about ideas and aspiration and accomplishment, not soil or blood. So I'm pro-immigrant, pro-trade, pro-meritocracy, pro-Silicon Valley, anti-Trump, etc.The blood and soil view -- which I understand, but don't endorse -- is held by Americans whose relatives fought in our great wars, shed blood, defended the country, worked hard ... but for some reason today can't or won't keep up with economic/technological/cultural change. America is not unique in this divide. In Malaysia, there is a phrase "bumiputera" -- " sons of the soil" for people who are (1) basically good, but (2) can't or won't keep up. Trump's supporters are largely the American bumiputera.
So basically Americans who don't fit into the globalist, open-borders view are little more than obsolete farm equipment.
Let me reaffirm, before I answer, that I am 100% for the idea that America is primarily about ideas and aspiration and accomplishment, not soil or blood. So I'm pro-immigrant, pro-trade, pro-meritocracy, pro-Silicon Valley, anti-Trump, etc.The blood and soil view -- which I understand, but don't endorse -- is held by Americans whose relatives fought in our great wars, shed blood, defended the country, worked hard ... but for some reason today can't or won't keep up with economic/technological/cultural change. America is not unique in this divide. In Malaysia, there is a phrase "bumiputera" -- " sons of the soil" for people who are (1) basically good, but (2) can't or won't keep up. Trump's supporters are largely the American bumiputera.
So basically Americans who don't fit into the globalist, open-borders view are little more than obsolete farm equipment.