I think Elon Musk is a good man, not perfect, but then, the guy I look at in the mirror every morning isn’t perfect, either, so I’m not going to knock Elon about that. I don’t know any perfect people. Well, that’s not true. Leftists are perfect, of course. If you don’t think they are perfect, just ask them. There are reasons leftists consider themselves perfect. When you are allowed to set up your own standard of “right” and “wrong” (which leftists do), and you judge yourself by your own standard of “right” and “wrong,” then how can you do anything wrong? If you violate your own standard, you just change the standard and add the “wrong” thing you did to the “right” side of the column. Voila! Perfection! They do it all the time, individually and collectively.
But Elon Musk doesn’t do that (I don’t think), and I certainly don’t. And I believe most Townhall readers and thinking Americans understand that the unAmerican, “woke” mind has been devastating to the country, absolutely horrendous. It might end up destroying America. Elon is optimistic. We are making some progress, he believes.
He recently wrote the following in an X post: “I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus. We are making some progress.” I certainly applaud his “vow” to destroy the “woke mind virus.” Every American needs to make that same “vow.” Unfortunately, about half the country hasn’t done that yet. But Elon does see “progress” in that regard.
For all his high intelligence, it’s not impossible that Elon is totally wrong here and completely misreading current America. I confess, I personally don’t see much progress being made—just the opposite, in fact—but I do believe that Elon is a smart feller, and he gets around a lot more than I do. So, I grant the possibility that he is reading the situation more accurately than I, and that “progress” is being made in destroying the “woke mind virus.” I certainly hope he is right. But I haven’t noticed it yet.
I also think that what Elon is possibly attempting here is to try to encourage us in this battle against wokeism. If we have confidence in Elon, and we think he is on the right track, then that might inspire us to strengthen our efforts to destroy this moronic demon that is tearing our country apart.
And it is possible he is exactly right, and we are winning the battle. And again, I hope he is spot on. I think the midterm elections this year, and the presidential election of 2028, might give us a clue how clear Elon’s vision truly is. We’ll see.
I do think Elon, in one sense, however, is definitely on the right path. We—patriotic, God-fearing Americans—are awake now and perceive what is going on in the nation, after doing a Rip Van Winkle for several decades. For years, we slept, naively thinking “it” couldn’t happen in America, and we let the Left have their way in nearly every area, with hardly a whimper of protest. Now we are fighting back. The problem is, the rot is so deep and widespread that it will take years to clean it out. And, of course, about half of America doesn’t want it cleaned out. That’s a major part of the Left’s success. They have unalterably converted countless numbers of Americans to their cause, and these Americans appear irredeemably lost. Is it too late?
And the problem is serious, folks. Not only are we fighting to save the people who have already succumbed to godless leftism, and to get them to see its decadent errors and what it is doing to the country, we are fighting those who continue to perpetuate leftist horrors and want them increased and spread. And that’s why, in a response I wrote to Elon’s post, I replied that it took a long time for America to get into this sewer, and it will take a long time to rise out of it.
Elon calls it a “virus” (an accurate term) while I usually refer to it as a cancer, and will do so now. Serious cancer in the human body requires desperate, often invasive, measures to save the patient. And it isn’t an easy, or speedy, process. Sadly, sometimes it doesn’t work and the patient dies. We have a grave cancer in the American body politic today—leftism as embodied in the Democratic Party. It’s been growing for quite a while, and we are trying to kill it. But the cancer in our body fights back and keeps trying to grow; and the cancer in America is certainly fighting back and continuing its efforts to extend through our entire country. If we don’t get rid of the cancer in our body, it will kill us. And if we don’t get rid of the cancer in America, the country will die. Elon thinks “we are making some progress” in ridding America’s body of the cancer (virus) that is trying to destroy us. But again, I ask the question, is it already too late?
I do have great respect for Elon Musk and his post encouraged me some. I’m in Thailand looking at the forest from afar and can’t see the individual “trees” as well as people living in America. There are advantages to both perspectives, but Elon talks to many more Americans than I do, and he is positive. At least his post indicated he was. I certainly hope he is right. I do believe we’ll get a little better idea of whether he is correct or not in the midterm elections this year. A Democratic Party victory will not be a truly “progressive” step for America. But, either way, the rot in America is very deep, and won’t be eliminated quickly or easily, if at all.
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