Current Events > If RFK want such a kook about vaccines and all, he'd be a good candidate

(+) Yeah! (+)

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

Well that and the Nazi signaling

Well that and the Nazi signaling

We are going to remake public institutions to serve the public. We will roll back the secrecy and make government transparent. We will protect whistleblowers and prosecute officials who abuse the public trust. We will rein in the lobbyists and slam shut the revolving door that shunts people from government agencies to lucrative positions in the companies they were supposed to regulate, and back again. We will get money out of politics. We will open our institutions to real citizen involvement

Our administration will take racial healing seriously through a program of Targeted Community Repair. Our operating principle is not guilt for the sins of ones ancestors, but rather compassion. We will invoke the authentic desire in all Americans, white and black, liberal and conservative, to improve the condition of our Black and Native brothers and sisters.

Our soils are depleted, the weather is wacky, trees are dying, and the water in many places is toxic. Chronic disease is at an all-time high. Were going to address these problems at their root causes. First, we will shift agricultural subsidies so as to encourage regenerative practices. Today, a new generation of farmers and ranchers is building soil, replenishing groundwater, and detoxifying land, all while producing just as much food as conventional farmers and earning a decent livelihood. Secondly, we will incentivize the transition of industry to zero-waste cycles and clean energy sources, and forge agreements with other countries to implement these policies throughout the global supply chain. These first two policies will vastly reduce the toxic waste, industrial poisons, and pesticides that make people and ecosystems sick. Finally, we will protect wild lands from further development, by curbing mining, logging, oil drilling, and suburban sprawl. We will become a global advocate for rainforest preservation and marine restoration. We will rethink development policies that promised economic growth while ignoring ecological sustainability, and ended up delivering neither.

Government assistance to the nations most vulnerable is a high priority, but even more important is to reverse the policies that have led to such poverty in the first place. We will rebuild the industrial infrastructure, ruined by forty years of off-shoring and misguided free trade schemes. We will enact policies that favor small and medium businesses, which are the nations real job creators and the dynamos of American enterprise. We will support labor in reclaiming its fair share of American prosperity. We will break up too-big-to-fail banks and monopolies, and when crisis strikes, bail out the homeowners, debtors, and small business owners instead.

It is time to end the imperial project and attend to all that has been neglected: the crumbling cities, the antiquated railways, the failing water systems, the decaying infrastructure, the ailing economy. Annual defense-related spending is close to one trillion dollars. We maintain 800 military bases around the world. The peace dividend that was supposed to come after the Berlin Wall fell was never redeemed. Now we have another chance We will bring the troops home. We will stop racking up unpayable debt to fight one war after another. The military will return to its proper role of defending our country. We will end the proxy wars, bombing campaigns, covert operations, coups, paramilitaries, and everything else that has become so normal most people dont know its happening. When a warlike imperial nation disarms of its own accord, it sets a template for peace everywhere. It is not too late for us to voluntarily let go of empire and serve peace instead, as a strong and healthy nation.

We will end the failed War on Drugs and grant amnesty to nonviolent drug offenders. We will shut the school-to-prison pipeline, and transition prisons away from a punishment paradigm to a rehabilitation paradigm. Prisons will be an intervention in a life gone wrong, and a way to prevent offenders from harming others again. Instead of defunding the police, we will transform the police. We will incentivize them to prevent violence, not make unnecessary arrests. We will train them in deescalation and mediation skills and partner them with neighborhood organizations. No longer will their relationship to the public be adversarial

Heres some stuff from his campaign website I like

A bunch of irrelevant platitudes and outright lies because he's a goddamn Neo Nazi.

Also the white supremacy, that's a bit of a sticky wicket.

The guy has lost his mind.

Others have mentioned the antisemitism, but he's also cozying up to all the right wing bigots, misogynists, racists, and ghouls.

glad I wasn't the only one who noooticed the 1488

I guess Im not familiar with the significance. Explain ?

I guess Im not familiar with the significance. Explain ?

Same as above. Im not saying I dont believe it - Im admittedly not following RFK super close. I just like some of the the stuff I read about his policy priorities.

Does his antisemitism regarding Covid get lumped into his "kookiness" about vaccines?

https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/1488

Does his antisemitism regarding Covid get lumped into his "kookiness" about vaccines?

I'm not fooled.

The right wing are trying to promote this guy as a moderate to libs and centrists, while his insane views on vaccines and antisemitic conspiracies appeal to the far right.

(I guess thats like a very small chance its coincidence)

including new-to-me red flags

Maybe you should do some self-reflection on the fact that you so easily got the wool pulled over your eyes from vague platitudes about transparency that you missed all the red flags.

I still think the policies are pretty good, and would vote for someone else who had them.

Yes vote for the fascist in the primary. Tc wants to vote for the person saying slavery was good.

He doesn't only suck on vaccines, he's also a huge Putin penis holster.

I get that this guy was at one point of his life very positive and fighting for the right side of issues, however he's no longer that person.

A lot of people do the right thing only because they want attention and accolades. The fastest way to get both of those things though is to engage in right-wing nutjobbery, as you'll instantly have a worshipful fanbase and all the attention you could want.