for basically forever, âAmericanâ as an identity has been synonymous with âcapitalist / meritocraticâ
whatâs happening now is a divide between people who are capitalist first and American second
and people who are American first and capitalist second
Elonâs just never gonna get it guys. You can tell him 1000 times that a country is a sacred heritage passed down from generation to generation, heâs still gonna treat America as some tech nerd thunderdome where your descendants live or die by their ability to leetcode.