If this Daily Beast report is true, uber-nerd Elon Musk is disappointing:
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been revealed as a top donor to a Republican PAC aimed at keeping control of Congress. Filings published by ProPublica this weekend show Musk contributed $38,900 to the Protect the House PAC, joining the likes of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and Houston Texans owner Robert McNair in the PAC’s top 50 donors. The PAC raised more than $8 million in the second quarter for Republican lawmakers hoping to fend off Democratic challengers. Musk, who called claims that he is a top donor to the GOP “categorically false,” has a history of donating to both parties.
He could make the argument that he’s trying to preserve the business environment for his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, but given the dysfunctionality of the Republican Party, including in the crucial area of climate change, the sane observer would expect someone whose expertise has a fundamental basis of the embrace of truth to disdain an organization who has increasingly moved away from just such a concept.
Or, to be concrete, the destruction the environment benefits neither company.
If Musk really values the importance of truth, he should not be contributing a single dollar to a Republican organization, as the current Republican base is far too much love with its ideology over and above honest fact.
And a disappointment to nerds everywhere.
