Elon made me do it

I am voting this fall for the Harris-Walz ticket, for Sherrod Brown for Ohio’s United States Senator, and for Democrats down the entire ballot. I urge you to do the same wherever you live.

I am making this announcement (which will probably come as no surprise to anyone) at this time because Elon Musk is all in for Trump, MAGA, and the rest. I have neither Musk’s gazzilions nor his power nor his ego, but I am no less a citizen of these United States than he is. He has his reasons, and I have mine. He uses his voice, and I will use mine.

My reasons for supporting Harris and all are many. But I will keep this simple.

First, I like the kind of leadership she will exercise and many of the things she stands for and has promised to try to do when she occupies the Oval Office. Most important, I believe she will exercise power within the boundaries of our Constitution.

But second, I am absolutely certain that Mr. Trump and his allies will irreparably compromise our democracy if they are returned to power. Mr. Trump and his supporters at Project 2025 and elsewhere have plainly told us what they will do given another chance at it. Every day they tell us more, and it gets more extreme by the moment.

Let me ask you this: no matter how much you agree with the MAGA movement’s positions on the economy, or abortion, or Israel, or whatever else is important to you, is it worth abandoning over two centuries’ worth of American democratic government and replacing it with one man/one party rule? If it is, then have at it.

But if what matters to you is the United States of America and the republic for which (our flag) stands, then I cannot see how you can support Mr. Trump and the rest. If this election grants them total, unchecked power to do what they what to achieve the things you want, then the next thing they will do is to use that same power to do things you do not want, and perhaps against you yourself. History shows that that is how power works when it knows no limits. Always.

So, I am voting this fall for the Harris-Walz ticket, for Sherrod Brown for Ohio’s United States Senator, and for Democrats down the entire ballot. I urge you to do the same wherever you live.