> love to meet some of these people IRL to see how their brain ticks

The most popular car colours are white, grey and black [1]. People don’t generally want opinionated cars. Driving a Tesla is now politically opinionated.

> I live in a pretty left leaning areas with many Teslas

If everyone drives a Tesla it’s not opinionated. I live in a small blue town in a deep red state. Folks are dumping their Teslas.

Nationally, Teslas have depreciated 10% over the last year, Cybertrucks 60% [2].

[1] https://www.edmunds.com/most-popular-car-colors/

[2] https://www.cargurus.com/research/price-trends/Tesla-m112