I see even a large number of the left raising this question. That alone tells me that what Elon Musk and his team are doing is a fabulous thing. Even the most militant of the limit the government people are shocked at just how bad it’s got
But there’s a basic idea that the hard-boiled left will never allow itself to understand, and here it is:
Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.
The sharper among you will know where that quote comes from, without having to search engine the thing.
This is precisely why the founders believed, and rightly, that government should be limited. It was Thomas Jefferson that observed that the natural state of government is growth. That’s something that he strenuously advised against, saying that the federal government should be limited both in scope and in power.
I firmly believe that Jefferson would have been horrified and yet not surprised just how far outside the constitutional box our federal government has gotten and how much abuse draft and waste has been baked into the cake these last many years. Horrified, but perhaps not surprised.