Are Tesla owners complicit in Musk’s DOGE “chainsaw” massacre of hundreds of critical government programs?
The firing thousands of federal workers by claiming their jobs are wasteful (with no such evidence), trying to break Social Security, calling it a fraudulent Ponzi scheme, and threatening to de-fund health care for millions of low-income people —just for starters?
When they bought a Tesla, they were only trying to be green. Yet now, adding to Musk’s coffers by driving his car presents a moral dilemma.
The historical, psychological and political answers for why Musk decimated our federal infrastructures and installed himself as leader of a ruling class technocracy are complex and mindboggling—picture a face with spinning eyes and hanging tongue.
But one answer is not that hard to grasp: Trump promised an $854 TRILLION dollar tax cut for the 1% uber rich donors (like Musk) and other multi-billion-dollar corporations if they would support him in his bid for president.
Thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Citizens United case for striking down corporate campaign spending limits, Musk was unrestricted in his ability to donate one BILLION dollars to Trump super PACs and become an un-elected co-president.
To get their hands on the trillions needed to pay for the tax cuts due to the uber rich, they claimed they were “saving” money for the American people by gutting the innards of the federal government. And they plan to increase and make those tax cuts for the uber rich permanent, so they will continue to rob, lie and create blinding chaos to keep themselves in power.
The boycott of Musk’s Tesla, including company shares, charging stations, components for repairs etc. is having a big effect—the last I heard, Tesla had lost a whopping 71% of its profits as of April 2025.
Dis-owning your Tesla sends a financial message to Musk demanding he stop his depraved attempt to destabilize our democracy and leave us vulnerable to the oppression of kings, technocrats and dictators. Americans on your family tree for generations to come will be proud you did.
Miriam Ginden, a long-time resident of Sonoma County, is seeing something and saying something.
