This is what Musk tweeted recently. The problem with this though is that it provides a highly inaccurate view of the world … in a way one should say that Musk is rather blind on this right eye.
But that shouldn’t be a surprise, because I would say he already gets the starting point wrong. Musk thinks he is left of center at the start (2008), though I would say that he, like his PayPal pals are not liberal, but rather libertarians … and libertarians I would say are anything but liberal (at least, liberal in the US view), libertarians are conservative, highly egocentric, and I would argue they call themselves libertarians because they don’t want to be seen for what they are … conservatives. They think libertarians are more hip. So the starting point should already be:
But, the main problem with this graphic is that it completely ignores what happened to the right. All the “action” here is about the left moving further to the left … the only example for that is wokeism (in case that is a word). But the graphic forgets:
- Republicans embrace of racism (“they send rapists…” and “they won’t replace us”.
- Republicans embraced Putin and other strongmen … ultimately embracing fascist dictators over democratic values.
- Republicans embraced view that the press spreads “fake news”, right out of the Nazi’s playbook.
- Republicans embraced book banning as seen in Texas and Florida
- Republicans have embraced one conspiracy theory after the other
- Republicans embraced anti democratic views of not accepting election results despite overwhelming evidence that there was no foul play
- Republicans found no issue with an insurrection on Jan 6
There are many other examples of conservatives moving further and further to the right and toward embracing white supremacy. All of these further moves to the right would position Musk (who with his silence on them seems to embrace them) much farther to the right compared to where the conservative stickman is in that graphic.
Oh and note, that graphic is not by Musk but by a guy called Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) … who I guess, like Musk is a right wing apologist.
