Hindsight may be 20/20, but sometimes it requires bifocals. That is, of course, if you care to take a closer look. You might not want to, lest it interrupt your rush to judgement. But if you take a breath, you might be surprised.
Take, for example, the recent fallout from Trump 2.0, already in progress. Tesla car dealerships have become hotbeds of recent protests, often resulting in vandalism and, on a few occasions with the use of firearms. Howcum, you might ask when you emerge from under a rock? It's all directed at Tesla CEO and Trump human shield Elon Musk, whose Doge is running rampant. hacking and a hewing at government waste. At least that's what they're leading us to believe.
Now kids, let's head back into the Way Back machine set, for say two decades ago during the age of one GW Bush. That's when we got the long-awaited sequel to Desert Storm. The battle cry of protesters back then was "No blood for oil!" Progressives far and wide begged for the end of fossil fuel from our lives. And please, please please give us the electric car, you war mongering profiteers! There was even a semi-popular documentary that liberals dearly loved called WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? The antithesis of this miracle that were clamoring for was the Hummer, a gas-guzzling knockoff of the military truck and utilityvehicle called the Humvee. Hummers, the douchemobiles of yore, were perceived as middle fingers to the left and were often vandalized at this point in time.
Flash forward a few years later to when Elon Musk was THE media darling in a post-Steve Jobs world when it seemed everyone else was bored to tears by Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. Elon the Genius was going to be our savior, cementing that stature when he formed a car company that would make wait for it, ELECTRIC VEHICLES. (Cue the Hallelujah chorus) Praise be to him!
But wait just a gosh darn minute...he's switched allegiances. Musk is leaning right now... standing right to Satan himself, POTUS Don John Trump? That bastard! What else has changed about him? Hard to say. Maybe nobody was listening over all the Hossanas (unless you're Jewish). He's still the same tech weirdo, spreading his seed far and wide like Nick Cannon and his past accomplishments are being erased due to his current association with said Demon Incarnate. What's his end game? Couldn't be misanthropic...or could it?
So here we are now. Those who yelled the loudest for the EV are focusing their ire at the one company that has popularized the very notion of the non-gas consuming cars. They are turning Tesla dealers into Target stores. Is it misguided anger? Well, not quite. Now they're going after the next entry on the list, the privately owned Muskmobiles themselves, just like in the Hummer days. (The Cybertruck is already its own joke and punchline, the Edsel of the 21st century. They could recoup their losses by selling them to the circus as clown cars) After that, the Tesla owners themselves, collateral damage in this War Between the States of Mind.
And let's not ignore the MAGATS who believe electric vehicles are Satanic since oil is from the Lord but are now Elon Musk's biggest cheerleaders.
This is how it starts. They're playing us off against each other, a familiar tactic, a simple case of misdirection for the simple-minded, which is how they see us no matter where you stand. It takes the attention off of them. It's happened before. It'll happen again. History tends to repeat itself, sometimes exactly, sometimes abstractly. Look up from your phones every so often and see what going on around you. It doesn't cost anything to pay attention unless you don't. Then it might be too late and the price too great..
