Tucker Carlson: Wrong Like a Fox
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“The left says we have a moral obligation to admit the world’s poor. Even if it makes our own country more like Tijuana is now, which is to say poorer and dirtier and more divided…”
…says Tucker Carlson as his advertisers flee Fox News in disgust. Tucker! How hard it is not to use another word that springs rhymingly to my fingers. Carlson, with his mortuary style makeup and his dead soul has lost about 14 as of Tuesday evening and that’s a good thing. It’s a good thing because he’s a bad will ambassador condemning the very soul of America and its history and its reputation as the place where the poor go to become rich. I wonder, do we change reality by blaming the inconvenience of truth and the principles of economics on “the left?” Immigration is an economic growth factor and in recent times immigration has been a substantial boost to government and private sectors. Immigrants create jobs and businesses all out of proportion to their numbers. One small-business owner in six in the U.S. is an immigrant, according to a recent report by the Fiscal Policy Institute’s Immigration Research Initiative. Small businesses are the biggest job creators, not the giant corporations with their giant tax breaks.
No, I’m not a historian with any credentials, but I’m going out on a limb anyway by expressing my wonder that we aren’t already like Tijuana since we have never had a border wall and any security risk posed by not having one has yet to prove out after all this time – two world wars notwithstanding. Why is that? Why is it that we’ve long been opposed to immigration yet we assert that we were once greater than we are now, massive immigration notwithstanding? It’s an easy question and the answer is easy too: somebody’s lying.
Is the phenomenon of advertisers who cancel sponsorship because of such obnoxious sentiments only the result of “left wing extremists weaponizing social media against companies in an effort to stifle free speech” as Fox states? Now, they’re just making smart business decisions and bigotry is bad for business. Sorry there’s no law about taking your business elsewhere. It’s called free market capitalism. It’s called reaping what you sow or “payback is a bitch” if you prefer.
But once again: has 400 years of mostly uncontrolled immigration from every country on Earth made us dirty and poor? That’s hard to maintain with a straight face, even a straight face with pancake makeup. This country was settled by people with foreign accents and no visas, many fleeing poverty and untenable homelands, others just looking to work. I’m willing to bet that includes your ancestors, My ancestors and Mr. Tucker’s. Sure, many settled in slums. Many went west and built cities and created farms. So many of those places had more German and Swedish and Irish and Italian and Polish speakers than English. Nativists like Tucker and the “Know Nothings” fought hard all that time to get rid of them right from the beginning. They were spectacularly wrong. Wrong like a Fox.
A census of California during the gold rush would have included immigrants from Everywhere. Ships from across the Pacific and around the Horn arrived in fleets. So many of those Wild West towns like Deadwood had more Cantonese speakers than or at least as many as English speakers – or French or Spanish or Italian or Greek. Chinese immigrants dug for gold and built the railroads that made westward expansion possible. Some of the sons of my German ancestors settled in Missouri and Wyoming and Texas and some made it all the way to California. Those sons and daughters were prosperous and yes, they built this country and its businesses, fought in its wars and served in its government just like the ancestors of nearly all of us. Are we poorer for the lack of English surnames? Dirtier?
According to Ancestry.com, In 1840 there was 1 Carlson family living in Massachusetts. This was about 50% of all the recorded Carlson’s in the USA. Did they change it from Karlssen? Were they millionaires? Did they live in penthouses or did they get off the same boats as mine?
Were they hypocrites and bigots on arrival, or did that take a generation or two?
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Glenn, I pointed out in an earlier post that one of the hallmarks of those who immigrated to this country and then called themselves Americans has been that of acting like the little kids at a daycare center when a new kid arrives. They run grab their favorite toys and say “Mine!” The infamous battles of the gangs of New York in the 1840’s were between the Englishmen who claimed to be Americans and the newly arrived Irishmen and Catholics.It was much the same argument that Trump and his followers are making today. Had we listened to them then Trump and the Germans would have never been allowed here. Not a bad trade but we would have lost out on a tremendous amount of inventions and innovations that followed with all of the other immigrants to this country. Americans had a history of taking land from others and then calling them the immigrants. Not all of us of course but it seems that most of the conservatives do it with greed in their hearts. They want all of the money and power in their hands and to control everything. This is being shown in states where democrats have won races but Republicans are trying to pass legislation to deny them any power in their newly won positions. Wisconsin seems to have set the tone for this.
Bigotry and stupidity is what it is – nothing less. We’ve become a mean and nasty country where everyone hates and is constantly insulting and scapegoating and lying about everyone else. money and power and nothing else is what we’re about.
Mueller can’t move fast enough for me! A country built by immigrants that prospered. And because it was growing more immigrants could come and prosper. These idiot talking gobs have no clue they want to slit the throat of the country that gave THEIR ancestors a chance. I am do disgusted at the bigotry and stupidity.
It’s just beginning. I don’t know who will follow Mattis out the door. I don’t know how many will wind up behind bars, but I think it’s like tectonic forces – the longer they build up, the bigger the earthquake when it finally lets loose. Of course not one Trumpanzee will capitulate and there’s going to be a lot of chest pounding when Mueller reveals the real Donald Trump.
I will be shocked if Trump hasn’t already been indicted on numerous counts.
We are living in the upside down, and it’s a frightening place.