Elon Musk’s Class Interests Are Not Your Class Interests (He’s There To Get Rich, Not To Help You)

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Let’s for the sake of argument say that Elon Musk is the smartest and most capable man who has ever lived. Does that by itself make him worthy of our trust? The man once said “We coup who we want.” He was referring in that instance to Bolivia, but it was an open-ended statement. In the future, should Nicaragua be problematic, it might apply to them, too. Should Romania be an issue, I see no reason Musk wouldn’t treat them the same way. And if it were the U.S. government itself, he has already expressed his opinion on exactly who and under what circumstances he would view a coup to be acceptable: we (whoever “we” may be) can coup any government we so choose, and the only explanation we need give is because “we want to.”

I’m not real sure about the constitutionality of anything Musk and his DOGEys are doing right now, maybe it’s all being done by the book. But then again, I’m pretty certain Musk isn’t real worried about whether it is or not. It’s not like we have a bunch of constitutional scholars in the current administration. And if they are, they are not conservatives in the traditional sense, meaning to say they are looking for loopholes in long-established ways of doing things rather than adhering to what has been adhered to in the past.