RFK,Jr. - liberal, Boomer, idealist
Unfortunately, it was the liberal Boomer idealists who got us into this mess. We need a far more robust conceptual structure to push back against this attack on culture.
I was heartened last weekend to hear that Robert F Kennedy Jr was throwing his support behind Trump’s campaign for president.
My thoughts on this race, in a nutshell, are that while I have doubts and questions about Trump, the forces arrayed against him are so clearly, blindingly, obviously, malignant that he is — incredibly — the only sane choice. The corporate-uniparty-progressive cabal that holds power right now absolutely must be put back in its box. As I’ve said before, I’m only a populist now because the elites who are in charge of everything are so incompetent and corrupt. If we had a caste of enlightened, talented, and fair overlords I probably wouldn’t call myself a populist at all.
So the more the merrier, when it comes to defeating this monstrosity that gaslights children into thinking they can change sex, forced millions of people to inject themselves with a dubious (to be generous) Big Pharma boondoggle, incites racial hatred, and starts foreign wars with no concern for the people who actually fight those wars — as well as probably a hundred other crimes.
There is a lot to like about RFK, Jr. As I’ve also said before, his childhood vaccine stance is not something that influences me either way. I simply am not a vaccine voter — COVID being an exception — and I cannot adjudicate the merits of the arguments. I do see the sinister power these companies have, I am deeply concerned about industrial agriculture and have been for years, and who does not want clean rivers and healthy air? I think Bobby’s stance on the Palestinians is spot on, and he seems like a decent person who has lived through some very dark stuff.
And yet, as I wrote in June of last year, I would not have voted for him. And his speech last week announcing the suspension of his campaign — while eloquent and substantive — reminded me exactly why.
He said of the health crisis affecting America right now:
“This is an issue that affects all of us far more directly and urgently than any culture war issue and all the other issues that we obsess on and that are tearing apart our country, this is the most important issue, therefore it has the potential to bring us together."
Well, I beg to differ. Not because the health crisis is not serious, but because the culture war is part and parcel of that health crisis. The culture war is the spiritual and moral element of the health crisis. The culture war is an assault on the essence of humanity, which attempts to detach us from our human patrimony, our tradition, and all that is beautiful and sane. It creates false parallels and causes us to be at war with not just our neighbours, but our own minds. Almost every element of the corporate-uniparty-progressive cabal’s agenda seeks to colonise our thoughts and steer us toward making the least healthy choices for ourselves and our children — because it gives them either profits or control, or both.
To take an example that RFK, Jr would approve of: the food that we eat. The immensely complex food chain starts with the all-important soil, but it ends in our lifestyles and why we buy what we buy. Who does the most buying of food? Mothers. Changing our perception of motherhood from being the competent, calm, central command of the family to harried, put-upon and resentful woman who hates having to cook for her family, has had a direct impact on what millions of people eat. Mens sana in corpore sano, after all. “Liberating” women from the family, denigrating stay-at-home moms, and encouraging girls to flee from domestic skills has made families less healthy. Of course, it wasn’t working mothers that crushed small agriculture and created a toxic food environment — huge market forces and top-down government policies did that. But those factors went hand in hand in hand with a sea change in the culture that told the female half of the population that cooking for their husbands and children was literal oppression.
Another example: the “medical-industrial complex” and Big Pharma’s and role in trans-ing kids. How can this not be a central theme in the campaign of a man who rightly crusades against the medicalisation of childhood, and the sickening of American children aided and abetted by these corporate behemoths’ capture of government policy? I went to the Children’s Health Defence website, and typed transgender into the search bar. Only two relevant articles came up — and neither was a robust repudiation of the idea that children should have access to sex change operations.
People who undergo sex change operations are patients for life — or as the companies that make the drugs and the tools used on these people would see it — walking profit centres. As Jennifer Bilek says in this speech: “There’s a whole lot of very, very, wealthy people in the biotech, pharmaceutical, technological and financial industries that are driving this ideology.”
And the Culture War is where the rubber meets the road. It’s the interface where malevolent schemes for societal control become ‘the new normal’ among the general population.
My guess is that Bobby Kennedy, Jr, mistakenly see the transgender issue as part of the fabric of gay rights, and Bobby remains at heart a liberal Boomer idealist. That means sexual freedom — especially of the high priest class of gay men — is not to be questioned in any way.
Unfortunately, it was the liberal Boomer idealists who got us into this mess. So while I have a personal fondness for Bobby, like the many other liberal Boomer idealists who I love dearly in my own personal life, we need a far more robust conceptual structure to push back against this attack on culture.