On one side is a self-made immigrant billionaire who has dedicated his life to fighting climate change. On the other are BlackRock, Saudi Arabia, and Jeff Bezos.
Democrats and their paid mouthpieces in the media have chosen to side with the latter.
Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of Twitter has been called “dangerous for our democracy” by Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley says it is “a concern when an oligarch may be owning the town square.” The Bezos-owned Washington Post seemed to blame Musk when unnamed accounts launched “racist” attacks on Twitter’s legal, policy, and trust leader, Vijaya Gadde, for her involvement in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election.
The question isn’t why liberals so fear Musk, the brains behind the most successful electric car company in history. It’s why they don’t fear those whom Musk is displacing — namely, the worst people in all of woke corporatism.
Sure, Tesla’s large Chinese market may make Musk a little too friendly toward the adversary of the Western world. Does that make him more risky than asset managers BlackRock or Vanguard, both top Twitter investors with unhealthy sympathies for Chinese expansion? Twitter under Musk would certainly have a long way to go to match the Washington Post’s Sino-sycophancy under Bezos. Despite the Amazon founder’s public fulminating over Musk’s China ties, the Post has taken millions to print a propaganda insert for the Chinese Communist Party.
Another point: Musk wants everyone to be able to own a car that produces no carbon emissions and does not contribute to traffic through his scientific pursuits at the Boring Company. BlackRock, which is buying homes for upwards of 20% asking prices in cash, evidently wants nobody to own anything.
Top Twitter owner Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talal publicly aired his opposition to Musk buying the brand before he brokered his successful deal. Sure, the Democratic president may have to cozy up to enlightened despots like Mohammed bin Salman in the hopes of isolating adversaries such as Russia and China, but the rest of his party doesn’t have to. Yet MBS’s billionaire cousin earned none of the scorn that Musk did for his failed attempts to block the bid.
Elon Musk is not a conservative. He’s a Democratic donor who endorsed Andrew Yang, the technocratic champion of a universal basic income, for the presidency in 2020. Musk has done more than anyone to advance the future of consumer clean energy, and he accomplished the once-impossible feat of making electric cars cool for the people with the most power to influence market trends.
While the rest of the West dithered on Russian aggression and climate change, Musk was giving Ukraine internet access via SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service, and he continues to develop technology to transition the world to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.
But the optics are all wrong. Musk is the exact opposite of the virtue-signaling “Fearless Girl” statue outside the New York Stock Exchange (produced by State Street, another investment management firm among Twitter’s top investors). He’s an autistic loner who dates A-list actresses and musicians in between his dreams of space. Unlike the Malthusians who are driving their companies into the ground for the lies of ESG, Musk believes that not even the sky is the limit — that plebeians are civilized enough to act like adults without the supervision of constant content moderation and cancel culture.
So what if he’s a green guru with the audacity to believe in free speech as the greatest goal of the Western world? The real secret to “democracy,” as anyone who clutches their pearls over the “fate of our democracy” knows, is to keep it out of the grubby hands of the people and under the protection of corporate elites and the Saudi crown prince’s cousin.
