Elon Musk has, in the past couple of months, done one thing for sure and that is to make certain the name Elon Musk is spoken a whole lot. If you had not heard of Musk before or maybe just heard his name in passing, you have a much better idea of what this gentleman is doing in the world today just with his actions over the last couple of weeks.

Here at RedState, we have been following the Musk and the Twitter story from all sorts of angles. Here is just a sampling from yesterday…

From Brandon Morse: Here’s What the Left Is Really Mad About With Elon Musk’s Offer to Buy Twitter.

From Mike Miller: MSNBC Analyst Uses Elon Musk Twitter Bid as Excuse to Declare US Must ‘Abolish Billionaires’

From Nick Arama: The Empire Strikes Back at Elon Musk

From Bonchie: Liberals Absolutely Lose It Over Elon Musk’s Hostile Takeover Bid of Twitter

So, as you can see, there is no shortage of angles or opinions on Musk and his recent move to buy Twitter and take it private. Yet a conversation with a friend of mine on Facebook yesterday made me pause and put on my critical thinking cap to ask a very simple question.

What if some of Elon musk’s critics have a valid point?

Now, I’m going to be the first person to admit I’m one of those who have come late to know anything more than cursory information about the Tesla founder. My colleague and cohort on RedState’s Wednesday night VIP Gold show, Scott Hounsell, has followed Musk for years and is able to call some of the moves that Elon makes before he publicly announces them. Unlike Scott, I have no idea what makes this gentleman tick but I do admit he is fun to watch tick off all the right people.

Brandon, in his piece above, gives a fair breakdown of what both sides look like. From his post above…

For those supporting Musk’s buyout of Twitter, they want something very simple; the ability to say what they want without fear of being suspended or banned. They want to be able to have conversations and make points without having to obey the guidelines laid down by their political/ideological opposites.

In other words, a little more honest conversation, a lot less ideological oversight.

What those who are against the buy are saying is that they would rather not allow people to say what they want, how they want, when they want, because some people will utilize that to spread “misinformation” that threatens our “Democracy.”

At least, that’s their excuse. What they actually seem to be afraid of isn’t the spread of “misinformation,” it’s the fact that very soon they’ll lose their handicap on this course and will have to have their ideas and declarations weighed and measured in an environment where it won’t be protected.

They’re being made equal and they don’t like it.

Much of what the left argues can only exist in a vacuum. Introduce outside opinions and the point they make begins to deflate pretty fast. For years, Twitter has been complicit in keeping certain arguments from making their way into the mainstream and given Twitter’s status as the de facto town square (as Elon Musk called it) that has polluted the national conversation on many a topic.

So the reason I’m even exploring this is that I believe I and a lot of other people in this country don’t critically think as we should.  I’m not saying that Elon Musk is doing anything wrong here — he could be as pure as the driven snow in his motives with this. Yet we should not be afraid to ask questions and try to look at all sides.

Going back to my friend’s piece on Facebook I was not offended at all that some people were not fans of what Musk was doing with his Twitter buyout attempt or of him in general. Some of the criticism, though, was pure nonsense and reminded me of some of the pure unadulterated idiocy that I read when Putin invaded Ukraine back in late February and March. In fact, that invasion and some of the comments by people who are claiming to have knowledge or sources that were bunk proved to me that we need to stop and take a breath and challenge ourselves a tad bit more.

Of course, the easier path is just to say you are going to sit back and enjoy watching leftist heads explode and I’m going to do that, too.

That there are people on the left who are actually using the excuse that more freedom of speech is going to doom this society is one of the dumber things that has ever been offered as an argument. This angle once again shows that a whole segment of the population could not critically think their way out of a wet brown paper bag.

Personally, I’m for Elon Musk taking his own money that he has earned and spending it on a takeover of Twitter and giving all those moist snowflakes a proper melting. I’m not a stockholder and I don’t use Twitter enough to make a bold statement, either way, other than to say more speech is better for everybody.

That is just common sense.

So, in the days, weeks, and months going forward, as Elon Musk pursues his takeover attempt with Twitter, or with whatever else he does. don’t be afraid to put a critical eye on some of these things. This will help bolster your position against those who come at any of your views with the emotional drivel. Hopefully, it will also sharpen your mind to make sure that we all constantly remind ourselves that there is no human being walking the face of the Earth today who is flawless.

The last flawless person who walked the face of the Earth was Jesus Christ and thankfully, we celebrate His Resurrection this Sunday, and there has been none like Him since.