Enough Musk Spam
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I don't think Musk needs to be defended in the name of democracy. Musk personally took a literal chainsaw to dismantle american democracy and in the process made the lives of millions worse. He's an opportunist shit stain that deserves everything that is coming for him.
Did he deserve it? Yes. Would it be democratic? No.
You don't see the problem with that? Democracies have no real protection against something like that because it would go against the basic idea of democracy.
No matter who it is or what the person has done... in a democracy you can't simply suspend democratic rights for that person.
I see your point. But this is something else and has a lot to do with lack of democracy to begin with. Elon Musk is/was above the law which is undemocratic in itself. He was never elected by anyone, yet wielded enormous power over the government and damaged the institutions. All this while not even having US citizenship.
To be clear, I'm not rooting for Trump or Bannon, those are traitors and grifters who sell the country for their own profit. Nobody should be above the law and those people should face consequences for their actions in a democracy. So, if you want to strengthen democracy it might be a good idea to start by fighting against the people who are willfully and deliberately destroying it, instead of defending them. That's my take.
America has not been a real democracy since Trump's first term. Where a lot of people have already been replaced. Biden's efforts, which would have been for the people, were all blocked and with the pandemic there were further restrictions. Perfect pawn sacrifice. Especially as the accusations were already being made while they were being blocked at the same time... So in the second election, when terrorist acts such as January 6th had already been going on for a long time... there was not a single accusation of election manipulation although it was so obviously manipulated and was an absolute farce... Trump wasn't elected legally either... the law, i.e. the courts etc. didn't do their job either otherwise he would have been in jail long before that... Neither of them were elected...
So regarding Musk... democratically would be e.g. life imprisonment in security custody in addition of course a complete expropriation of all property... which would remain in state hands and would be used for the benefit of the people. So not profit-oriented like private companies... ( I know thats dreaming )