Americans Seek a Return to Common Sense

Elon Musk is very interesting and inspiring to me. He strikes me as being so intelligent it’s as though he must slow down his brain enough to articulate words. He is clearly shy, his speech at times halting, and he often appears ill at ease although he compensates for that with a great sense of humor. 

Assessing Elon’s contribution to America and to the world as the creator of Tesla, SpaceX and through his revolutionizing X/Twitter as the American Free Speech Public Forum that it has become, my mind immediately connects with the wonderful movie, A Beautiful Mind, the 2001 Russell Crowe film about the brilliant mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics.  

Elon is also self-deprecating.   I laughed when he stated on the Bill Maher show that “people think I’m so smart.  Right.  I’m the guy who paid $42 billion for a company (X/Twitter) that’s actually only worth $22 billion.”  

What would make a man of such transcendent talent and ability be so unabashedly supportive of Pres. Trump in this election? He’s actually been campaigning for him in various swing states.  It’s clearly not about money.  He cannot be bought.  He’s the wealthiest man in the world and it’s not even close. He lacks for nothing. There is no audience with anyone on the planet he would not be given if he sought it. 

I think the answer is simple. He sees in Pres. Trump a desperately needed return to common sense. 

Like Trump, I think Elon Musk, who legally immigrated to the U.S. from South Africa, cannot understand why a country would not want to close its borders to illegals of the very worst kind, some of the most dangerous criminals in the world—including murderers and rapists and the daily harm they do—child and human traffickers, mountains of drugs including fentanyl that kills Americans daily, and terrorists.

Musk can also likely not understand why a nation would so burden its own citizens with taxes, regulation, and inflation that they struggle to merely fill up their car with gas, buy eggs and bacon or afford their utility bills.  This is to say nothing about interest rates being so high that millions of Americans cannot afford the most basic part of the American dream, buying a home. 

I think it may also alarm Musk that our American legal system can be so easily weaponized against a political opponent in the way the Biden-Harris Administration has done to Trump.  He may think to himself, if this can happen to someone as prominent and powerful as Donald Trump it can happen to any American.  He may also wonder if, given his support of Pres. Trump, a future Democrat administration may sic a vindictive Department of Justice on him and his companies.

I think what he may find most revolting about our modern American society is perhaps the principal reason he purchased X/Twitter.  He has for years described himself as a “free speech absolutist” and he forcefully points out the danger of the Cancel Culture that censors and cancels any dissenting thought or speech.  This is political correctness coming home to roost. This is where we are with the Woke American Left.  There can be no dissenting thought, no genuine exchange of ideas.  Rather, you are either Woke, or you are silenced.  Censored.  Cancelled.  Shot at.  Even killed.

Musk coined the term “woke mind virus” to describe the terribly damaging effects such poisonous doctrines as Critical Race Theory and Transgender confusion can have on our people, especially impressionable young people. 

I believe it is the Transgender delusion that hurts him the most.  This is because, as he described in an emotionally compelling interview, he has a son who “transitioned” to being a “girl,” who changed his last name and no longer speaks to his father.  Musk feels as though he has lost his child no less than if his son were dead after Musk was tricked into agreeing to so-called gender-affirming care procedures.  After that, Musk stated, “I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus and we’re making some progress.” I think many of the fears and concerns reflected by Musk are shared by millions of Americans who often feel out of place in their own country.  Whether they care for Pres. Trump’s manner and personality or not, they strongly support the values and policies he espouses now, and advanced as president previously.  In other words, a return to common sense.