The Long Game of the Republican Party and their Donors
I’m inclined to say Republicans in power have a deliberate plan to rollback as much social and economic progress as possible to remain relevant as a political party. Elon Musk is just one Right-Wing ideologue in on the game. Republicans know that if many of the problems and issues Democrats are attempting to fix get fixed, the Republican party platform will become irrelevant. The Republican's knew for awhile their party was in danger of dying and all this is their attempt to keep it relevant and alive.
So the plan is to roll back as much progress as possible so Democrats and Republicans have to keep refighting the same political battles of the last hundred+ years.
I studied political science (although I did not graduate) and figured this out way back around the early 2000’s when some of the political stances the Republican party were taking even back then didn't make sense and seemed senselessly hurtful and damaging to people.
Another reason for the rollback of progress is because they know, with the economic rise of the chinese populace, corporate industry might need to secure a cheap source of labour in the future until automation kicks in fully. If you impoverish the United States by rolling back as much economic progress of working stiffs as possible, capitalist industry secures a handy source of cheap labour for itself for future exploitation. That's why they moved industry to China in the first place. It was a handy source of cheap labour in a country with little regulations.
It’s a game capitalist industry is playing. They move around the board, making promises of prosperity in some existing poor places while impoverishing other places that once had higher standards of living.
They are playing the long game over decades and hence why most people don't notice it.
Case in point: Remember in the 80’s and early 90’s when Republican’s were all gung ho for moving industry to China? They said it would reduce prices for goods and it would bring Capitalism to China and that it would even bring down the communist party. If anyone has a memory like me you’ll remember that's exactly what Republicans were saying when they defended American industry moving to China. (You might, like me, even remember Bernie Sanders speaking out against American industry moving to China around the same time). Besides Republicans said, because of unions and government policies, the American worker was getting too much in salaries and other retirement benefits for industry to remain sustainable in the U.S. And so Republicans got their way and a lot of American industry moved overseas to China.
And prices of goods did come down but not the CCP (Chinese Communist Party).
And today what are Republicans saying and doing?
They're saying China is screwing us, they are a Communist adversary and we need to move industry back to the good ol’ USA! And as Republicans are saying all this, they are gutting protections for American workers, rolling back economic protections and progress for the American people. Why? You know why. Because they see the standard of living in China is increasing due to their industrialization and they know the Chinese worker is going to demand a higher salary to afford their increased standard of living. And also because environmental standards are kicking in in China due to all that pollution from industry and thus it will be more expensive for industry to stay in China. The same reasons industry left the U.S. in the first place.
That's why these companies - in partnership with Republicans— are preparing the U.S. as a future source of cheap labour by reducing its standard of living and by rolling back the economic, social and environmental progress of the last hundred years. These industries want cheap labour and to find cheap labour in a world running out of such places you have to impoverish people, make them desperate, cut off safety nets so they'll work for you and eliminate government regulations.
They want to bring the U.S. worker down to the level of the pre industrialized Chinese worker.
