The formal decision of Bobby Kennedy Jr this week to run for US President – as a Democrat, of course – has elicited a number of reactions.
The Guardian’s one line description included the phrase “anti-vaccination”. Predictable, given the old Manchester rag is funded by Bill Gates, and therefore rabid in its defence of the indefensible, and extremely tedious, as only the far-left press can be. One fears that journalists at the Australian branch of The Guardian know as much about US politics as they do about Covid vaccines. For the PGGWC (progressive, green, globalist, woke, Covid) class, Kennedy is simply a conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer nutter. And, therefore, to be given “the treatment”. Ignored, silenced, trolled, ridiculed, dismissed. Rinse, repeat. It is what they do.
Partly, the statist left’s reaction to the Kennedy run is borne of fear. RFK’s core message threatens so much of the prevailing order, as Jeffrey Tucker states:
He has a keen eye on how the public-private partnership in all industries—moguls and oligarchs working hand in glove with state power at all levels—has become the primary threat to the American system.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/rfk-jr-has-a-bead-on-the-public-private-partnership_5176821.html
The PPP is, explicitly, the foundational model for the New World Order.
Others with great sympathy for Kennedy’s various stands – not the least of which has been his evisceration of Anthony Fauci, unkindly referred to by some as “the micro-turd”, a phrase that is both sizist and turdist – think that RFK’s presidential cause is hopeless, but will give him an excellent platform for building broader support for medical freedom and freedom generally. Not to mention the restoration of integrity and transparency in public administration and the serious pursuit of system-corruption. And therefore worthwhile, even if he loses badly. He will be a thorn in Biden’s flesh.
(Kennedy’s most recent book was The Real Anthony Fauci: Big Pharma's Global War on Democracy, Humanity, and Public Health, 2022. He a so had produced a film of the same name. Bill Gates also suffered much criticism in both book and film, which added immensely to their appeal and to the impetus for RFK’s run. As the book’s Amazon blurb reads:
This is not just another political book. The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets—both conservative and liberal leaning, scientific journals, key government and quasi-governmental agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19 virulence and pathogenesis, and to muzzle debate and ruthlessly censor dissent.
Jeffrey Tucker calls the book “a modern classic”. A note on the widespread view that Kennedy’s electoral cause is hopeless also comes from Tucker:
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has officially filed with the Federal Election Commission as a candidate for president. Yes, he will run for president as a Democrat, challenging Joe Biden in the primaries. Does he have any chance? A quick quip: he has as much chance as Trump had in 2015, back when all the smart people and money knew for sure that the nomination would go to Jeb Bush.
So when you see the dismissals and chortling from mainstream media, keep that in mind.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/rfk-jr-has-a-bead-on-the-public-private-partnership_5176821.html
Still others support Kennedy’s bravery but fear for his safety. We are all familiar with what happened to his father and uncle when they took on the established criminal forces embedded in America’s Deep State. As RFK Jr says, Lee Harvey Oswald was (patently) a CIA asset, and the CIA and other elements of the USA’s military industrial complex didn’t want the Vietnam War to end. And there was just as much stench surrounding RFK Sr’s assassination in 1968. Bobby Kennedy was the anti-war candidate in the 1968 presidential election, and we all know how the American political class loves a war (and a war machine). They just don’t know how to win them, though that, too, may simply be part of the bigger script. You prolong wars, you don’t need to win them. So, some see now a large target on the back of Kennedy the Younger. For he threatens so much that the US elites wish to see protected and to remain hidden. He threatens both to challenge it and to expose it.
Finally, there are those who would welcome, for the first time in many decades, a face-off for America’s highest office between two outstanding and honourable candidates. Assuming, and hoping, that is, that the Republican candidate will be Ron DeSantis and not yesterday’s man and a decided un-hero of the Covid fiasco, Donald J Trump. (One’s real fear that Trump will now be martyred, and, hence, enabled to run again). A DeSantis v Kennedy contest would guarantee good-to-great governance and the restoration of America’s reputation for exceptionalism, whoever won. A wonderful prospect and one not seen in our lifetimes. Clinton v Bush 41? Clinton v Dole? Bush 43 v Al Gore? Obama v Romney? Hillary v Trump? No, too often observers of American elections have lamented the fact that both candidates were, well, lamentable, and have concluded that surely a great nation of three hundred million plus people could have come up with at least one good candidate for whom to vote. Two good ones would be all but unprecedented.
Apart from his famous set of initials, who is Robert Kennedy Jr? And what is he known for? He is, indeed, a warrior against medical oppression, as his detractors know. One of the greatest, in the Covid era. He wonders what has happened to the old, patriotic left. He stands up to biofascism. He has been a conservationist in the original sense of that now corrupted term. Before “green” went “red”. His foundational thinking combines the best elements of social democracy, social conservatism and classic liberalism. He is utterly fearless. He has been deplatformed (of course). And he will now be facing a war.
Will Jones draws attention to one of RFK’s biggest fights:
Kennedy is founder and Chairman of Children’s Health Defense (CHD), an organisation which seeks to protect children from harmful medical interventions and other damaging exposures. Since 2021 Covid vaccines have been prominent among its concerns. In 2020 CHD’s revenue was $6.8 million, according to filings made with charity regulators, more than double the level the previous year.
(Hilariously, Wikipedia calls what the CHD does “propaganda”. No sense of irony there. Wikipedia, in discussing the CHD, states:
Arguments against vaccination are contradicted by overwhelming scientific consensus about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Health_Defense
Safe and effective? They do, indeed, inhabit a strange and other-worldly universe of the mind).
The CHD’s online magazine is called The Defender. It has been one of a number of indispensable resources during the dark days of Covid totalitarianism.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/
He also gave what has been described as one of the great public speeches, at an anti-lockdown rally in Washington DC.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4998500/user-clip-robert-f-kennedy-jr
Kennedy’s candidacy is a breath of fresh air in American politics, boring and tainted as they have now become. His rationale is as follows, stated some time back on Twitter:
If I run, my top priority will be to end the corrupt merger between state and corporate power that has ruined our economy, shattered the middle class, polluted our landscapes and waters, poisoned our children, and robbed us of our values and freedoms. Together we can restore America’s democracy.”
Of course, he also brings that rare combination to the table – a contrarian, non-mainstream set of political messages and values combined with huge name recognition.
RFK Jr’s ideological journey will resonate with many who began their political lives with a social democratic sensibility – that is, were left-of-centre – but who have steadily, over time, become, in turn, utterly disillusioned with leftist politics, only then to turn towards right-of centre, mainstream alternatives which, subsequently, have also let them down. Those in which they have placed their trust have now formed The UniParty of big city snobs who want to run all our lives, and who have given themselves the power to do so.
As Roger Simon notes:
The Democratic Party, from Barack Obama to Joe Biden, has been leading our country poco-a-poco into the communist hands of the World Economic Forum and its brother in globalist crime: the World Health Organization.
… This announcement also is likely to make a lot of Democratic Party leaders’ heads explode. They won’t know how to deal with Kennedy, despite the haunting past.
Nor will the mainstream media that has been strangely silent on the potential of his candidacy until now. They must fear his upending their endless pro-vaccine narrative that has come close to destroying this nation.
Hence, RFK promises to restore some semblance of re-connect between the Democrats - now run by rich, entitled neo-Marxists – and normal, outside-the-beltway Americans who once supported them and knew that they had their backs. A little like the Australian Labor Party, whose loss of core values has been one of the major sad stories of our lifetimes. As a fighter for the underdog and the struggling middle class, it is as if Kennedy’s run has somehow set the natural order back in a semblance of balance.
There is, in RFK Jr’s run, also something of the magic of the Kennedy name and of the halcyon days of American politics in the sixties – Camelot, if you will – that is restored, or at least remembered with nostalgia and affection. Much of that affection for the Kennedys died with Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick in July 1969, though the stench surrounding Ted Kennedy – who was driving and who then fled from the car in which Kopechne drowned – seemed not to stop him remaining in public life for what seemed like an eternity and being a force for the very Deep State-Democrat establishment that his older brothers had so resisted.
Many would argue that, given their legendary womanising and presumed links to at least the outer edges of organised crime, the era of the elder Kennedys was no Camelot. JFK’s key adviser, Ted Sorensen, said those exact words. There were some policy bungles, too, like the Bay of Pigs. Yet Kennedy brothers (as President and Attorney General) were not a danger to system stability, good governance, political decency and public order in the way that most US (and other) administrations since have been. And that most Western Governments now are. One need only contrast JFK’s heartfelt and sensible fear of a nuclear confrontation with Dementia Joe’s palpable indifference to what is, perhaps, a greater threat to the world than even the much-hyped Cuban Missile crisis was in the sixties. Biden is as dangerous as it gets. It was not for no reason that one recent scholar assessing JFK’s reign called his book Incomparable Grace (Mark Updegrove, 2022). “Grace” isn’t a word much used these days in reference to politicians.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/our-angry-ugly-graceless-age-and-the-queen/
RFK said to Naomi Wolf in 2021:
We’re apparently the only two liberals in America who, you know, who are… I don’t know what happened to liberals. It’s really bizarre because we all grew up reading Kafka and Orwell and Aldous Huxley and Atwood, who wrote “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and Cormac McCarthy who wrote “The Road,” and they all predicted exactly what we’re going through now. And it just felt like we were all, you know, on the same page, and it is very, very strange to me, almost inexplicable, how all these people, friends of mine for life and people that I’ve admired and people whose writings that I read and have acquiesced as something that clearly is on a path to a totalitarianism and to what we used to call fascism, which I noticed you pointed out on your talk with Tucker Carlson. And Mussolini, who had an insider’s view of that, used to complain that fascism should not be called fascism, that it should be called corporatism because it was the merger of state and corporate power. And Franklin Roosevelt, who was at war with him, his definition of fascism was the domination of government by corporate power. And here today, we’re living in a world where you have government officials who are censoring criticism of pharmaceutical products that have no incentive to make them say these companies, the four companies that make, the primary company that make vaccines in this country, they’re all serial felons.
It kind-of sums up his rationale for running for high office. Yes, I told you he was good. He, no doubt, doesn’t get it right on everything. Perhaps like climate change, though good advisers would likely modify the views of a smart non-ideologue like RFK. Not many get it right on everything. The most important thing about Kennedy Jr is that he has identified the greatest current threat to mankind’s future, and has the stones to do something about it.
As Jeffrey Tucker says, God bless RFK for calling it out. Cojones?
… he has put his career, reputation, and even life on the line to stand up for what is right. This is what it is going to take to save this country.
And not just the USA. The rest of the world, too.
Paul Collits
8 April 2023
I think it adds so much to the whole situation. It will throw the Democratic Party into confusion and the MSM will be discombobulated and not be able to work our who to hate. It’s a great move. On Sky last night James Morrow and Mick Mulvaney were sagely telling each other that RFK jnr wasn’t a serious candidate and that he was Robert Kennedy’s grandson and JFK was his great uncle. So wrong!!! Sky has been so chicken hearted about the vaccine issue. I hope he or someone with integrity wins and we can see an end to useless interference in other countries.
Lee Oswald was not the guy who killed JFK...he was set up to be the target to be convicted for it; there is significant evidence to prove my agreement with that assertion. Both Kennedys were targeted for their opposition to the Vietnam War, as well as their opposition to organized crime. They were both killed by established mob strongmen, and there is much truth about both of their assassinations that the media has never exposed in the public sense, just as with a lot of other things, including 9/11. I would actually vote for Bobby Jr. if he actually campaigns, and I would encourage everyone to do the same. Biden is too old and too committed to the establishment to be in the office again; we need someone like Bobby Jr., if we want to make any progress forward toward a "more perfect union".