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Monday, December 30, 2024

Musk’s Support For AfD Triggers Outrage, But Can He Really ‘Influence’ The German Election?

 

 

Elon Musk’s opinion column in German weekend news sheet Welt am Sontag, triggered a huge outpouring of anger and outrage from the establishment and mainstream media figure because in the text he gave his endorsement for the upcoming German election to the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, routinely labelled 'far right' by far more authoritarian parties in Europe.

All sorts of unhinged accuasations flooded print and broadcast news while internet comment threads on leftist websites saw contributors go into meltdown. Claims that Musk is participating in “election interference” and harming Germany democracy were common. But seriously, can Elon Musk, for all his billions actually affect the election result, and if the AfD scores a surprisingly good result, how will Germany’s power elite react?

It is unlikely that Musk’s endorsement will move the needle all that much. Musk is already demonized across the EU for his takeover of X and shift towards supporting right-leaning candidates. In Germany, there is a constant stream of anti-Musk content produced on a daily basis. Musk writing an op-ed in Welt is hardly going to convince the majority of Germans, who likely already have an unfavorable opinion of Musk. On the other hand, the ongoing efforts of the establishment to have AfD banned from the election as 'a threat to democracy' could drive many voters to the upstart party and if AfD poll so wel they cannot be excuded from government as they previously have been, Musk's intervention might make him a handy scapegoat when the establishment try to get the result overturned as they most certainly will.

The AfD is already polling at 19 percent or so, and a poll in November set the party’s voter potential at 25 percent, which means there is a definite ceiling to the party’s support. Could Musk raise that ceiling?

Elon is a mega disrupter. As a result, he’s a target for the 'woke; left, the pensees unique, those who will not tolerate disrupters, dissenters or diversity of opinion. Space X alone has seized control of the aerospace market, wrecking the business models of all other commercial space efforts mercilessly. Starlink is conquering the SATCOM market at a global scale. 

Funds from Starlink in turn fund the Starship program, Earth’s biggest and largest spacecraft to date, which alone will drastically reduce the cost of material per pound to space than any other platform. Tesla is his vision for a future that isn’t dependent on fossil fuels.  And he is fighting to maintain that vision. 

His endorsement of the AfD isn’t an endorsement of hate, as the established press and political class in Germany would have you believe. It is an endorsement for disruption; a change from the current norm that has proven itself to be obsolete and in need of change. He sees war as a civilization killer. He sees waste, fraud, and abuse as cancers to democratic institutions. And if an opportunity arises to address such problems, he takes it. 

All of the businesses he’s involved in have visionary purposes behind them. The Boring Company. Neurolink. Optimus. His work with AI. Tesla Wall, and so on. This isn’t to say he’s not without faults. But one thing is for sure. This world is flying towards WW III faster than it ever has. And that needs to be disrupted more than anything else. And if Elon can help to achieve that in whatever contribution he can, good for him. 

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