Elon Musk is not perfect, though many people would insist he is. But he may well just be the perfect man for the moment. What he's done for free speech with Twitter, what he’s doing for the election with his own money – hell, what he’s doing for space exploration and communications in times of emergency – is unprecedented. There is no human being alive who is not benefitting in some small way from living in the time when he’s alive. I just hope he’s not getting ripped off.

I’m not talking about the businesses he’s in – he knows what he’s doing there. If you read his biography, you know he doesn’t mess around or like waste. Sometimes, he’s too hasty, but his philosophy is it’s better to cut back too far and be forced to backtrack a bit than never go far enough.

I wish the government would operate on this philosophy…before it went further and put large chunks of itself out of business. That likely won’t happen, but I can dream.

Back to Musk.

While I’ll likely never own a Tesla (I just can’t see it working for a family of 4 with two kids in car seats), I admire how good they look.

More importantly, I appreciate how Elon left what could be a comfortable life to fight with the rest of us for a better, freer America. I can write columns or do podcasts on the subject, and we all can volunteer, donate, work, vote, etc., toward those goals. What he can do, what he is doing, is more than all of that.

He’s putting his money........

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