I Wonder What Elon Musk Will Do With the New America He Just Bought?

We are led to believe that a "free market" operates by allowing billions of dollars to purchase influence and power. What happens to our constitutional republic when we hand over the mechanisms of democracy to the most powerful individual?

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I Wonder What Elon Musk Will Do With the New America He Just Bought?

The moment we decided that this was just “business as usual” was the moment we stopped pretending our democracy was functioning. Elon Musk's acquisition of the 2024 election exposed a reality we had been avoiding: the corruption in American politics has become blatant.

Instead, we’re supposed to believe that billions of dollars buying influence and power is just the way a “free market” works. But what happens to our constitutional republic when we hand over the mechanisms of democracy to the most powerful individual?

Democracy for Sale

Musk’s transformation from tech titan to political kingmaker wasn’t exactly a shocker.