Elon Musk Mis-Read The Election Results

Americans don't want to live in a hyper-dense, sci-fi, urban reality

“Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids. In fact it’s cold as hell.” — Elton John, Rocket Man

Elon Musk wants humans to be multi-planetary. I don’t find fault with him for that. But I do find fault with his obsession for human population growth and his sci-fi hyper-dense vision for the future of America and the Earth.

Musk is constantly posting about “population collapse,” when the actual facts are that Earth’s human population is already increasing rapidly, by about 70 million people per year. Watching it ticking up rapidly right here.

Just today, Musk posted a Tokyo-like video of hi-density, hyper-urban, sci-fi reality that appears to be his vision for America’s future.

But here’s the BIG PROBLEM facing Musk: The majority of American voters who won the November presidential election, and the vast majority of the American landscape — ~95% — that those voters represent, are RURAL not URBAN.

The political divide in America is not necessarily racial or class-based, it’s Rural vs Urban. With only minor exceptions, Trump won rural America. See the map below for the county-level election results.

Musk’s involvement in the 2024 election was large and perhaps determinative, but he mis-reads the results by thinking that red-county rural voters share his obsession with hi-density, hyper-urban, sci-fi reality living.

In fact, the majority of Americans live — and apparently want to keep living — exactly the opposite of Musk’s vision for the future, more like this:

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