I agree with you
@JRP3 that the media that 1/2 the country tunes into has been sharing a pretty negative message of Elon lately - and that message includes a Twitter takeover that the left seems more concerned about and much more negative about. And the larger percent of early Tesla EV owners and TSLA retail stock owners probably came from that demographic. And I can certainly believe that a portion of those early retail share holders from that demographic are upset regarding the message they are hearing from the same media that originally encouraged them to buy those vehicles and helped make their decision to buy stock. And as you suggest, perhaps a portion of that portion are so loyal to their political attachments that they will look past the environmental benefits that likely drove their purchases in the first place and they will remove their TSLA stock attachment by selling their stock. Makes sense to me.
But that would be only a portion of a portion of about half the US. We know the other half of the US - that half that originally disliked Elon and Tesla because of the messages of Elon and Tesla that their media choices had previously bombarded them with have been hearing a very different message lately than the ones shared on the more likely media choices of the average TMC investor. And a much larger portion of that other half of the country is now viewing Elon as a hero for taking on the main stream media, and for his efforts in their eyes to restore free speech……because they are getting bombarded with a very different message than that message of your choice.
As I have stated many times before, I neither like nor trust either side of the aisle - but I keep an eye on both as an investor - keep your friends close and your enemies closer. And the media support for Elon on the right that you likely haven’t seen is more than enough to balance out the angry Elon message from the left IMO. And it is creating many new Tesla EV and TSLA stock owners - probably at a rate that is at least equal to the rate that portion of a portion from the left is departing. I saw it in Idaho and I see it here in Florida. There are literally lengthy segments of the most popular commentaries from the right that are calling on people to support Elon in this fight, such as this one - (note the YouTube title for this rebroadcast - “The Left is Trying to Destroy Elon Musk”):
We don’t have to agree with all of its content, but there is certainly a huge audience regardless. Furthermore, I have also long said that it will eventually be the Big Money, not the democrats, that put the most horsepower behind the transition to solar and batteries. And Big Money will be doing this only because of a far more favorable Levelized Cost of Energy for renewables - and that decision to make that transition to renewables will be 100% driven by the bottom line, and 0% driven by emotion. And Big Money includes a hell of a lot of Republicans. And I have to wonder if it isn’t some of those Big Money republicans that are attempting to help throw Elon and Tesla a lifeline in their media sources because his solutions are clearly better for their bottom line.
My point is that while I don’t always agree with all Elon does either, both Elon and Tesla have now found themselves in the most enviable of positions - where they have brought products to the world that have created such efficiencies in the most effective manner, and done so at a time when those products are so desperately needed, that the real battle that is being waged behind the FUD is one to be first in line to these products and to the minds that made them possible. Whether they are fleet operators, or grid operators, or whales wanting the cheapest shares of TSLA possible
And that is why I agreed with
@Right_Said_Fred earlier - because it is important that we recognize that we are all subjected to group think from time to time on this forum - because the demographic of this forum was primarily formed by that first demographic of EV owners and TSLA stock buyers whose media sources were the first to back Elon/TSLA. But in the US at least, that’s only about half the message because it represents only about half the population. And if the message that you are hearing is that your demographic is running from TSLA, then perhaps we should consider that the demographic that doesn’t represent you is actually doing a pretty darn good job reversing the trend on TSLA share price in the last few weeks.
