I know what it’s like to have people who you respect turn out to be MAGA. You spend a lot of time trying to come up with an excuse so that you can reconcile your respect for them with the horrible shit they are staunchly defending. And what you say is definitely true, or at least was. But Trump was initially elected in 2016. He has been on and in the news daily for almost a decade.
People who are still MAGA, have made a choice. They have either decided that they are ok with it all, or they are willing to pretend and look away. They choose the echo chamber to drown out the reality that they want to ignore.

Considering that Elon was an illegal immigrant to the US at one point, I question the legality of his citizenship.

As some others have pointed out, paying social security directly costs companies money.
However, there is also a secondary set of costs to social security. Social security dramatically decreases a companies grip on a worker as the worker grows closer to retirement. A lot of workers would not be able to retire with out the income that social security provides. Without social security, once a worker passes the age at which they become less desirable for other companies to hire away then they essentially become slaves. And knowing you’re heading towards what is essentially slavery is going to have a lot of knock-on effects too. Pay and compensation negotiations, changing companies, how afraid people will be of being fired, ect… Are all going to swing heavily into the companies favor.

The average NFL game is 4 hours long, within which there is only about 12 minutes of actual playing. Without the risk of severe brain injury US football is just about watching a bunch of men in tights to stand around.

As an American, the last 10 years have been a real surprise to me. I’ve always known that there were incredibly stupid and hateful people, but it seemed like a slowly shrinking minority. The slow, incremental progress of America has led to apathy for most progressive voters. After all, if nothing is broken and it is getting better on its own, why worry about fixing it.
The problem is that a very over the last 100 years, a small but very rich group of psychopaths have been slowly eroding things like our education, journalism, social support, workers rights, judicial systems, and more.
I’m not talking about some secret group like the Illuminati, I’m talking about individual psychopaths like Elon musk who pick one or two things that they feel get in the way of thier ability to grab the power they think they deserve. They whittle away, using their immense wealth to slowly chip at our institutions. And each new one is able to build upon the work of the previous psycho.
The problem is that the last hundred years of slow witling has left us with very weak foundations, and things are beginning to fall apart.