If Bernie Sanders had been the president during the space race with Russia, we would've never put a man on the moon:

Why'd ya need to reply to Elon's tweet at all, Bernie? Is it because you're upset that you've lived off taxpayer money your whole life and have spent your career yelling at the sky while Elon Musk builds technological marvels straight outta science fiction?

What a joke.

A compassionate person might think I'm being too mean and say we don't need cool things like bulletproof electric trucks, flamethrowers, and Martian bases.

Perhaps.

We also probably didn't need to spend time inventing the wheel, the triangular sail, the combustion engine, or any of the engineering marvels that have lifted billions out of poverty.

Perhaps if we had just sat in caves and redistributed our berries and meat equally to fit Bernie's commie vision, we'd all have starved equally. That'd be better than all the machinations of our modern world, right?

I mean, I'd argue that this is a both/and situation, where we create a ton of awesome jobs by forging ahead with the natural human desire to explore God's universe, and that we use said growth to better fund our care for the poor.

If you disagree with me, go to your machine that magically inhibits bacterial growth by keeping things cold and pull out some cheap food that travelled hundreds of miles to you while you read this on a device that has more computing power than the rocket that got us to the moon.

Fortunately for us, Jordan Peterson has been coming off the top rope and slamming Bernie's nonsense in recent days. I'll leave you with his concise smack down of this idiocy: