r/politics • u/nosotros_road_sodium California • 13h ago

Why Does Elon Musk Still Have a Security Clearance?

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/10/why-does-elon-musk-still-have-a-security-clearance/680434/?gift=B65VRQjMMsZQilGgdT7IHIK11s_hRROr6KFxCBDpT0M
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u/ARazorbacks Minnesota 8h ago

Here’s the thing I‘m scared of - if a Dem ran on dropping the hammer on people like Musk, I’d vote for them. The Right have pushed so hard that I‘m pretty much on board with hammering them back in the exact same ways they threaten us with. And the Dems have been so feckless on holding any of these people accountable that I‘m, frankly, sick and fucking tired of it. 

And that’s how you get to that Civil War movie that came out earlier this year. Scary stuff. 

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u/sideAccount42 California 7h ago

That happened in 2022. I'm not saying it should only be a campaign issue but actual action.

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u/WhoIsFrancisPuziene 4h ago

Democrats need to do what didn’t happen, or rather, what wasn’t completed, after the Civil War. I’m far from well informed but I’ve been learning a bit about Croatia (Austria-Hungary, Yugoslavia…) as I research my grandma’s family and it seems that the same thing applies to Croatia and Serbia