RFK JR.
The Robert F. Kennedy Jr. inner sanctum afforded me the privilege and honor of inviting me as their guest to a private and very small (50 people) reception at a private home (very large) just west of Charlottesville Friday evening.
Just so everyone is clear, I would be honored to be invited and then attend any presidential candidate’s party like this. It’s like when Prince Charles asked me to come to his Dumfries House in Scotland with him several years ago. “Could you change your travel plans to come up with me?” Uhhh, yeah. I’m waiting for the other presidential candidates to invite me. Ha!
I’ve never been in that intimate a setting with a presidential candidate—at least one polling as high as he is (about 24 percent). This is not a partisan post; I’m just sharing a couple of takeaways from the event. Kennedy is 3 years older than I am. He picked 1970 as a benchmark—at that time, I would have been 13 and he would have been 16. In 1970, 6 percent of America’s children had some sort of disease; today, it’s 60 percent.
In 1970, 1 in 10,000 children had some sort of autism or verbal/social anomaly; today’s it’s 1 in 34 and in 8 years, at current trajectory, it will be 1 in 2. In other words, half of all boys and half of all girls will require special social/daily/verbal care. That should scare the pants off us.
In 1970, the phrase “food allergy” did not exist and neither did “gluten free.” In 1970, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget came 100 percent from taxpayers; today half of it comes from pharmaceutical companies. In 1970, NIH and its staff owned no drug patents; last year alone it garnered another 240; the upper level NIH staff involved personally get $150,000 per year for the lifetime of the drug, even inheriting these royalties to their heirs. Many have purchased homes, boats and other luxuries with this personal largesse.
Because Kennedy has spent a lifetime suing government agencies (nearly 150 times) he said he knows the bad guys and good guys. He said 90 percent of the agency people are good; the 10 percent at the top are bad, and he pledged to remove them. I would go a step further and remove the entire agency, not just shuffle the deck chairs, but I digress.
My biggest takeaway of the evening was President Biden’s refusal to let the Secret Service provide Kennedy with security. According to Kennedy, the Secret Service wants to protect him and has pledge their support—as long ago as two months they allegedly promised “within 2 weeks” a complete security detail. Silence since. According to Kennedy, Biden is personally and aggressively prohibiting the Secret Service from affording Kennedy the protection granted to every single similar candidate in American history.
That means that HALF of Kennedy’s campaign contributions are bled off paying for security. And if anyone needs security, it’s Kennedy. His security team noticed a fellow at a rally in California wearing a Secret Service badge; what caught their attention was how shiny it was. They apprehended him and found him literally wearing ammunition belts, two specially equipped pistols—you get the idea. Remember, Kennedy’s uncle (JFK) was assassinated after pledging to reshuffle the Central Intelligence Agency. Then his father, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated shortly after making similar pledges. This Kennedy pledges to reshuffle the CIA, the world’s number one assassin group (except maybe for Mossad).
For Biden to refuse him protection is the most heinous, despicable, hateful, anti-human thing he could do. He’s trying to bleed the Kennedy campaign dry of funds while seemingly hoping someone will do him in. For all his smiles, bluster, and “come on, man,” Biden has the heart of a devil, and no, I do not apologize for using that type of language. That the press allows him to treat anyone like that, let alone the most vulnerable, is unspeakably dirty and evil. So much for unifying the country.
Naomi Wolf, former darling of the most elite Democrat circles, spoke for 3 minutes and electrified the group by saying that the current political climate is not a contest between left and right; it is a contest between a circle of elites and all the rest of us. Her new book Facing the Beast is profound and powerful.
From my numerous conversations during the evening, I would say the group was evenly split between defectors from Democrats and defectors from Republicans. Kennedy said that for the first time, the “nonaligned” electorate is 60 percent. Normally, 40 percent align as Democrats, 40 percent as Republicans, leaving the election in the hands of about 20 percent swayable voters. Today, it’s 20 percent Dems, 20 percent Republicans, and 60 percent unaligned. That’s the level of frustration with all historical institutions.
Interestingly, he said he’s polling nearly 40 percent among people under 30. The group he hasn’t been able to reach are baby boomers (born 1947-1967) because they are still watching TV news. He said he asked his 28 year old son two weeks ago how many times he watched news on TV, and the son replied something like “does TV have news?” Breaking that aggressive mainstream media ignoring strategy is one of his biggest hurdles. But he said he only needs 34 percent to win and he’s already at 24, building 1 percent per month over the last 8 months (ever since he left the Democrats).
While I don’t know how I’ll vote yet, I’m thrilled to have a third party gaining this kind of traction. I’d like to see three more parties. More choice. More diversity.
What could possibly be wrong with that?