The Democrats who fear free speech
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.
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The blocking of the Hunter laptop story was a mistake and it is not racist to hold whoever did it responsible for that egregious mistake. We are now living through the consequences of that mistake with all the disasters of the Biden administration. While that person has not been fired, yet, the poor judgment shown in blocking relevant information about the Biden family corruption should be a firing offense.
The Democrats oppose Musk's purchase because they like the blocking of information that puts them and their candidates in a bad light. They like the fact that they can spew disinformation about Russian collusion while blocking negative information against their candidates and policies. They are providing more evidence of their inner despotic tendencies.
See, also:
These are the banned Twitter accounts conservatives want Elon Musk to bring back
And:
MSNBC host tries fear-mongering viewers about potential for leftists to be silenced
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