ThatOwlWoman
Leftist Vermin
When Karl Marx said that history repeated itself first as tragedy then farce, he could have been thinking of the Kennedy family. Senator Robert Kennedy was murdered in June 1968 in the ascendancy of his career. Fifty-five years later, his son Robert Kennedy Jr is a leading American conspiracy theorist challenging Joe Biden for the presidency.
America, as Richard Hofstadter wrote a few years before RFK’s death, suffers from periodic waves of paranoia.
Today’s America is in the middle of one of Hofstadter’s waves. Its most visible elements are on the right. Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign is based on the premise that Biden stole the presidency from him in 2020.
https://www.ft.com/content/2c0d5ce2-c8bc-42a5-829b-f6a15162bb21
It's easy to dismiss RFK Jr. as a crackpot. But he has a fervent group of ̶b̶e̶l̶i̶e̶v̶e̶r̶s̶ supporters. Two of them are friends of mine -- one of my profs and her mom. Both are well-educated (prof has a masters, mom a BS). They love him on one single issue -- the environment, which is their passion. At first I read all the glowing stuff they've been posting on social media about him. Then I read some other stuff. Told them that I simply cannot support an anti-vax (all vaxxes, not just the mRNA ones) candidate. The end.