You may have noticed the absolute meltdown of the left over the existence of Elon Musk and the DOGE team doing exactly what Donald Trump was elected to do. I phrased it that way because that’s exactly what is happening – someone is finally going through the government’s books and records to figure out what people do, how much it costs, where the rest of the money is going and whether or not we can live without it since we’re more than $36 trillion in debt. Why would anyone meltdown over that? There’s a very simple reason: Democrats cannot afford for the American people realizing how much government they can live without. More than that, they can’t have the public recognize how much the government was actually getting in their way and impeding their success. The public doing either of those two things would be the end of the Democratic Party.
Not one single person in the Democratic Party, either elected or in journalism, has commented positively on anything the Department of Government Efficiency has uncovered and ended so far, nothing. No matter how wasteful, no matter how absurd, no matter how insane or stupid, Democrats are angry that DOGE exists, not that we taxpayers are being ripped off. That tells you something.
The most amazing part of all of it is how these people, who’ve spent decades milking taxpayers for their pet causes, for money to fund organizations that employ their children and fund their campaigns, that hire and pay them exorbitant amounts of money for no-show or symbolic jobs when they retire, that use insider information that make them more successful at stock trading than people who do it for a living, have the audacity to refer to what Musk and the crew are doing as somehow motivated by “greed.”
Under what circumstances would the richest man in the world risk prison for a little more? He’s not Mr. Burns, he’s an OCD kind of guy obsessed with determining what is absolutely essential to the operations of something and eliminating everything else involved in its creation and production. Read Walter Isaacson’s biography of him, for crying out loud.
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The “kids,” as the left likes to belittlingly call them, who work with him are not in it for the money, either. Most have founded companies, won massive investments in their ideas, and don’t need anything to be more successful than anyone whining about them. What they want, what they crave is a challenge.
People who’ve risked and accomplished nothing have no understanding of how successful people, at any level, need a challenge. Standing on top of a mountain is boring, climbing to the top of it is what life is all about. Get there, conquer, then move on to the next things.
We all know people who love to have a good time all the time, to the serial entrepreneur class the good time doesn’t involve booze, drugs, sex or money – all of which will come and are available – it’s the creation; the defying of expectations to bring about something new or a better way to do something old.
Musk can buy literally anything on the planet, but he doesn’t. His largest purchase was a headache with Twitter – he bought a challenge and beat it.
The biggest challenges we face as a species, he’s taken on: space, the brain, communicating with one another. The only challenges bigger are government and existence.
But the idea of a smaller, better run government that does not get ripped off or lose hundreds of billions of dollars every year not only doesn’t interest Democrats, the very idea seems to scare them.
There are only two conclusions that can be drawn from that fact: either Democrats do not care – they put their political power ahead of what is in the best interest of the American people – or they benefit, financially or otherwise, from the inefficient and corrupt management of government. Personally, I’ve always found it to be a lot from column A and a dash of column B, but that’s just me.
Whatever the case, the work of Musk and DOGE must continue. They are the financial intervention the drunken sailors who’ve been running up the credit cards need, whether they like it or not. It’s just an important side effect that the reaction to their work is exposing how paranoid the left is that their house of cards can come crumbling down if transparency and fiscal responsibility were to become a part of how the government operates.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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