He did, according to movie reviewer Rebecca Cusey:

Shhh….Don’t tell Matt Damon, but something went sideways and he made a conservative manifesto in Elysium.
It’s pretty much a warning about what will happen to Earth if socialism wins.
Elysium takes place in the near future, after the entire earth suffers under the kind of economic meltdown threatening some of our great cities now. It’s dusty. It’s dirty. It’s unkept. No one has families or cars decent homes or fresh clothes or, apparently, showers. Jobs are dreary and dangerous and unsatisfying, if you can find them at all.
Future Los Angeles. Behold the power of socialism!
Basically, it’s Detroit.
Total economic meltdown. Here is a partial list of places where this sort of systematic economic failure has happened or looms: Detroit. California. Illinois. The Soviet Union. Cuba. Greece. Spain.
Not, say, Texas or Virginia.

Read the rest of her review – called After Watching ‘Elysium, You’ll Want to Register as a Republican’ – here.