He didn’t need this. There is nothing in it for him personally or financially. He was the richest man in the world. He was ubiquitously praised for his intelligence and creativity. He was the toast of the town. Now, Tesla’s stock is down 48% in the last 3 months. They are attacking his businesses, setting Tesla cars on fire, and he is being mocked and ridiculed on social media. He could have merely sat on the sidelines, watched, and lived off his $300 billion fortune, but he chose to try to save the country. He is not doing this to profit himself, like so many of the other millionaires and billionaires who get involved in politics or donate tens of thousands of dollars to a campaign. They all expect there to be a pay-off in the future. Musk heading up DOGE personally profits him in absolutely no way, shape or form. He is willing to sacrifice billions of dollars to do what he believes is right for our country just like he did with Twitter. He didn’t buy Twitter to make money; he bought Twitter because social media companies were censoring political viewpoints. They were shutting down free speech. They deplatformed a former President of the United States. Musk knew that this type of censorship would in the end destroy America, so he stepped in.
Meanwhile, Musk just sent up one of his Space X rockets and rescued the two astronauts who have been stranded on the ISS for 9 months while NASA has done absolutely nothing to help those poor people. A private company doing the government agency’s job for them. This is why I trust Elon Musk, and the same reason why I trust Trump. Trump has lost hundreds of millions of his net worth becoming President. He was willing to risk going to jail for the rest of his life to be President again. Trump has not done this for personal gain. Elon Musk has lost billions since he began heading up DOGE. They are not in it for themselves. If they were, they would not have become directly involved in politics; they would have merely manipulated the system to their advantage from the outside with their money, they way every other billionaire does it. It appears that Trump and Musk are the rare individuals who get involved in national politics in Washington, D.C. and their net worths have diminished dramatically while everyone else’s net worth grows exponentially. Who do you think is doing what is best for the American citizens? The ones who are losing hundreds of millions of dollars by being a politician or the ones who are doubling and tripling their net worth by being a politician.
Everyone on the left is enraged at what Musk is doing. Democrat representative Jamie Raskin said Wednesday that the Republican Party was "at war with the government of the people." So, auditing the government is a war with the people. I don’t understand how anyone could be against what Musk is doing with DOGE. Every wasted dollar by the government, every illegal kickback, every skim off the top, is money out of our pockets that is going to some person or some entity that is completely corrupt. For years, I have heard people on all sides of the aisle, speak out against government waste and abuse of our tax dollars. So, how could anyone be against exposing waste, fraud and corruption in the federal government unless they are in on the take? Yet we have masses of people who are protesting what Trump and Musk are doing to get our fiscal house in order. And this exposes the left’s real agenda – complete government control over our lives. Everything else is merely a façade disguising their real agenda for America.
The left’s attack on Musk and Tesla reveals that climate change is really a trojan horse to bring in more and more government control over the people. Climate change was never about “saving the planet”. Musk was the left’s hero when he was creating cutting edge electric cars, not because electrics save the planet, rather electric cars give the government the ability to impose carbon tax, tax how much we drive, and also the control to shut down our cars if they don’t like what we do, say or even think. But now that Musk is exposing all the grift embedded in the government, the left has made a 180 degree turn on him. Climate change becomes almost irrelevant when the person who was leading the fight against climate change begins to audit the deep state and expose the big government wasteful spending on entrenched bureaucrats who have been running the government and our lives for decades. Electric car mandates were never about saving the planet but controlling you and me.
Every part of their agenda is about controlling the people, whether it is mass illegal immigration, massive debt, out of control crime, stoking racial animus, transgender ideology, the drug crisis, the breakdown of the American family, failing public school systems, climate change. Perpetuating and exacerbating all of these problems allows them to create layers and layers of government bureaucracy designed not to solve the problems but to assert more and more control over the American citizen until we become so dependent on the government we cannot live without it. And those citizens who are protesting the exposing of government waste, fraud and abuse are completing dependent on the government to the point that they can barely stand on their own two feet.
After Moses led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt, as they wandered through the dessert, the Israelites lashed out at Moses and said that they would rather be slaves back in Egypt than be wandering free in the desert. They preferred the security of slavery than the uncertainty of freedom, of self-reliance. Every protester, every person who is spray painting a show room or setting a Tesla car on fire, is like the Israelites who were begging to be slaves because they are too scared to be free. They are so used to suckling on the government teat, that they cannot give it up, even if it means higher taxes, more inflation, less freedom. But this is the way it always is. More often than not people end up exactly where they are supposed to end up in life because of the choices they make. You choose to be a slave to the government; you will be a slave to the government. And sadly, we have too many people who are begging to be slaves.
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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.
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