That’s what I thought.

The core tenets of far right in the UK and Germany just wouldn’t seem that relevant to a wealthy person. It’s not like he’s going to interact with migrants in any way.

What is it about the right that benefits him though? Small government and reduced regulation?

I genuinely would like to know…

Does he actually believe in these ideologies, or do they just happen to align with his interests presently?

I suspect it’s the latter.

In Australia there’s a phrase “temporarily embarrassed millionaires”.

We have a two party system, one more progressive and one more conservative.

My parents are retired. They’re not wealthy and are living a meager existence on a government pension. They will always vote conservative, despite their best bet at better public services and social security on offer from the progressive party.

The reason is, they feel like they ought to be wealthy or at least they want to act like they’re wealthy. They feel as though they are more closely aligned with the views of wealthy people than they are with the views of poor people. They feel as though they belong to a class of wealthy people, it’s just that through a cruel twist of fate they don’t have any money.

There’s also the moral / ethical perspective that is ultimately meaningless but resonates with a lot of voters. For example, banning naughty books from schools. Obviously kids will access much naughtier content in other ways, but “protecting the kids from gays” is very communicable to low information voters.

It seems bizarre to me that the prevailing assumption is that Musk’s interests align with those of the working class.

As in, why TF would anyone who is not a billionaire want a billionaire to restructure government?

I just sync a folder with syncthing and use native markdown editors.

On a desktop I like zettlr. On android I like zettel notes. Both have zettelkasten features which is pretty much just a way to link to other files.