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In reply to the discussion: Now that it has nothing to do with current politics... [View all]pampango
(24,692 posts)clear to me that they do.
"I don't want some foreigner coming here with a billion bucks and buying the presidency." - Good that you specified 'foreigner'. If you had instead posted:
"I don't want some Black coming here with a billion bucks and buying the presidency" OR "I don't want some woman coming here with a billion bucks and buying the presidency" OR "I don't want some gay coming here with a billion bucks and buying the presidency", you might get a different reception here. Just goes to show that nativism is still acceptable to many on the left, while we have, thankfully, moved beyond racism, misogyny and homophobia.
Somehow I don't think that a "foreigner coming here with a billion bucks" will have any more luck than romney had with his billion bucks.
"All men (and now women) are created equal." All citizens - whether native born or naturalized - should have the same rights. There are not and should not be different classes of citizens.