• jhymesba@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    We need to start nipping this in the bud. RFK Jr. isn’t your grandfather’s Kennedy. He’s more akin to a Republican in many ways.

    • Anti-Vax. The guy believes that vaccines cause autism.
    • He believes COVID 19 was engineered. He thinks it attacks Whites and Blacks, while somehow immunising Asians and Jews.
    • He believes Fauci and Bill Gates used COVID 19 to push for vaccines, to give us all autism?
    • He thinks the CIA killed JFK.
    • He thinks prescription drugs lead to mass shootings.

    There are a few things I can agree with. Yes, I do think the pharmaceutical companies have hooks in the government. I think they are joined by other corporations as well, as money = power and we follow the “He who has the gold makes the rules” version of the Golden Rule here rather than “Do unto others as you’d have them do unto you” version. And I’m sure shenanigans were done in 2004 to get Bush over the hump, though Kerry did our side no favours. But the bottom line is that this guy is going to draw away even more people from our coalition. We need to remind each other than 74 million Deplorables came out of the woodwork in 2020 to cast their vote for Trump. We’ll need every last person who does not want a Trump-Repeat to vote Biden and ignore shiny objects like RFK Jr.