My Response to Reason's RFK Jr. Takedown
The ideas RFK Jr. ideas is advancing and the causes he’s championing deserved better treatment than they received from Liz Wolfe and Reason.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s longshot bid for the presidency has been a lot of things—entertaining, strange, exciting, and inspiring, at various turns. One thing it has not been is boring.
The bench-pressing nephew of John F. Kennedy has been unafraid to poke at the sacred cows of entrenched powers in Washington. He has called lockdowns a violation of civil rights and the largest wealth transfer in history, and has blasted US involvement in Ukraine in what he described as a “proxy war” with Russia. He has been outspoken against vaccine mandates, and claimed “Big Pharma” has manipulated vaccine trial data.
These positions have earned RFK Jr. the enmity of legacy media, but they have generated support among dissident left-liberals, populist conservatives, Tech moguls, and a surprising number of libertarians.
Not all libertarians are having it, however.
Following a combative interview between RFK Jr. and Nick Gillespie, Reason published another video featuring associate editor Liz Wolfe titled “Why Are So Many Libertarians Suddenly Fond of RFK Jr.?” that bluntly asserts Kennedy is “not worthy of the rehabilitation tour he’s getting from various pundits, podcasters, and tech luminaries.”
Wolfe is a good journalist, and many of her criticisms of the next son of Camelot are not just fair, but important to highlight. That said, there are several problems with the monologue that deserve attention. Here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Kudos to RFK Jr for his relentless crusade against Big Pharma fascism. Sadly, he still loves Big Brother and naively believes that he can reform the Alphabet Soup Gang of regulatory agencies. He does not fully realize the realities of power and money: whenever Big Government controls what is bought and sold, politicians and regulators will be bought and sold. That said, Liz Wolf and “Reason” are an embarrassment and Controlled Opposition for the Establishment.
Jon, while JFK Jr has been good on the jabs, he has before and during (as now) Covid-1984, been bad on the environment and most especially, on Apartheid Israel.
Maybe you have not been following this Zionist/Israeli issue, view my post on it here
https://responsiblyfree.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-unconditional-support-of-israel
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