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Elon Musk claimed Sunday that electing former President Donald Trump in November is the “only way” to save the country from the tyranny of Democrats and illegal migrants.

The billionaire SpaceX, Tesla, and X CEO claimed the Democratic Party would naturalize enough non-citizens as voters during a Kamala Harris presidency to turn the US into a “one-party state.”


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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 190 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The billionaire SpaceX, Tesla, and X CEO claimed the Democratic Party would naturalize enough non-citizens as voters

Naturalized non-citizens like... Elon Musk?

[–] mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 93 points 1 month ago (3 children)

And why would the Democratic Party need new voters if there won’t be any more elections?

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 month ago

Hey hey no logic allowed here

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well ackschuallllly what he meant was that no other party will stand a chance so it will effectively be a one party system as so many "liberal" immigrants will become citizens that they'll outnumber Republicans everywhere.

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even if that were true, which is truly ridiculous, new factions would pop up. If it swayed so far left that the Democrats always won, all the further left people would demand all the things they've been left without just to keep fascists from winning.

Basically, it would just be a leftward shift of the Overton window, which is LONNNG overdue. But it certainly wouldn't be the end of elections, that's stupid.

[–] jumjummy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

And that right there is why we need a sweeping blue victory. Kill off the crazy GOP of today, and let the left split into true left, and more traditional conservatives, or even center.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

And not only that, he is also projecting that dem voters are forever destined to vote dem… you know you can appeal to people still by changing what you offer…

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sweet Jesus, I wish that Democratic voters and politicians were unified enough that if we had a solid majority in this country that we could be considered a one-party state. Even if we somehow did manage to finagle things such that we won the next election 60-40 or more, it's obvious to anyone with a brain that we would immediately celebrate by turning on each other like dogs. The neolibs can't stand the hippies. The hippies can't stand the tech liberals. Most of the people pushed left by identifying with one oppressed minority group or another are in a coalition approximately as stable as the Balkans in 1913.

Democrats' favorite activity is infighting. We like it more than winning elections. The times when we actually manage to get our shit together enough to win are the exception to the rule.