I am torn on this,
Certainly in a utopia, if Hawaii was not a state, sure I would still rather have Obama as president vs Cruz even if he was born here.
Having said that, in the global financial market we really do have foreign bodies literally buying up property. Not sure it is a good thing to allow someone to migrate here become a legal citizen and then become president. I think to make that work, you'd still have to enforce anti monopoly concepts and get big money out of politics.
In an ideal world I would say sure, where you were born should not matter as long as when you run you are legal. But as long as you have global rich including investors with closed market mentalities and fascist or dictatorial markets, you would not want a flood of foreign super pack money already pouring gas on the fire.
But, I am certainly comfortable with say, someone born here, who is not pasty white, who is not a Christian, who may have Chinese or Mexican or GASP Arab parents, born on US soil as per "no religious test", running for office. No, that would not mean they automatically get the office, or my vote. Just the legal right to make the attempt. I would still vote on liberal social and economic positions so if they were running on the GOP "Fuck you I got mine" no, I would not vote for them.
I'd be more for it if we got rid of Citizens United and we taught civics without the "chase for the buck" "Christian nation" revisionist history.
Certainly in a utopia, if Hawaii was not a state, sure I would still rather have Obama as president vs Cruz even if he was born here.
Having said that, in the global financial market we really do have foreign bodies literally buying up property. Not sure it is a good thing to allow someone to migrate here become a legal citizen and then become president. I think to make that work, you'd still have to enforce anti monopoly concepts and get big money out of politics.
In an ideal world I would say sure, where you were born should not matter as long as when you run you are legal. But as long as you have global rich including investors with closed market mentalities and fascist or dictatorial markets, you would not want a flood of foreign super pack money already pouring gas on the fire.
But, I am certainly comfortable with say, someone born here, who is not pasty white, who is not a Christian, who may have Chinese or Mexican or GASP Arab parents, born on US soil as per "no religious test", running for office. No, that would not mean they automatically get the office, or my vote. Just the legal right to make the attempt. I would still vote on liberal social and economic positions so if they were running on the GOP "Fuck you I got mine" no, I would not vote for them.
I'd be more for it if we got rid of Citizens United and we taught civics without the "chase for the buck" "Christian nation" revisionist history.
