Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running for the Democratic nomination to be President and his outsider status speaks to the current deplorable state of his party.
His late uncle, John F. Kennedy, was the last great Democratic president who, if he were trying to run today, would be more at home with the Republicans. JFK would be shunned by Democrats for not appealing to enough of the fringe leftist elements who have taken control of the Democratic Party.
It was JFK who, in accepting his party’s nomination in July 1960, spoke of a “New Frontier . . . of unknown opportunities and perils.”
JFK in that acceptance speech called for sacrifice by the citizenry to meet these goals and challenges, a call he repeated many months later in his inaugural speech by issuing the challenge: “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”
These days, we have Clueless Joe and other Democratic figureheads trying to bribe voters with handouts. They ask simply how much it will take to secure your vote, the country be damned.
Somewhere between JFK and the present, we’ve become a nation fixated on equality of outcome instead of merely equality of opportunity. It simply goes against the laws of nature to expect everyone to achieve equally academically, financially, spiritually, even athletically. You provide the opportunity and then it’s up to the individual’s merits and work ethic to produce either success or failure.
But, in this era of we’re-all-winners, the reality has been obscured by psychobabble.
Every staff picture can’t “look like America,” despite the fact that we have inept political and educational leaders insisting this must be so even as they show themselves to be more interested in popping up for photo ops on every running trail, or cutting cakes to celebrate yet more ginned up “achievements.”
The Democrats have locked up the media, the education system and, increasingly, leftist billionaire supporters, not to mention weaponizing supposedly nonpartisan government operations such as the IRS, FBI, CIA and the Department of Justice in general to persecute political opponents.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attempted to inject reality into this bastardized world, challenging Clueless Joe for the party’s nomination and pledging to “end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening now to impose a new kind of corporate feudalism on our country.”
He promises protection of civil liberties, economic revitalization and governmental transparency. This is a Democrat for whom I could vote.
RFK Jr. also sounds a lot like former Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower who, in his farewell address, warned of the dangers of the “military-industrial complex.”
The Democratic spin machine already is hard at work, painting RFK Jr. as an anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown nut (even though this stance has been proved to be correct in the case of COVID responses).
RFK Jr. is anti-censorship and pro freedom of speech.
He’s an environmentalist, but not to the degree that humans should be eliminated to make this a more pristine world, as the child autistics currently leading the discussion seem to prefer.
RFK Jr. also wants to rein in deficit spending and get the United States closer to an even footing where international trade is concerned. And he doesn’t think the U.S. should sacrifice lives and national treasure trying to fight wars for everyone else.
Bottom line: RFK Jr. doesn’t have a snowball-in-hell chance of winning the nomination, just as his uncle JFK wouldn’t thrive in this era of the far-left Democratic Party. And that speaks volumes regarding our nation’s decline.
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