Health and Politics
In late August, underdog candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. essentially dropped out of his campaign for President, endorsed Trump, and lambasted the establishment Democrat Party for turning its back on its core values refined over the previous century:
As you know, I left that party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with. It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big AG, and big money.
Many of us have noticed the same thing. Due to my alternative health interests from an early age, I’ve been following RFK’s work in the field for about two decades. Although I’m not clear on what a president can actually do going up against the machine that is big pharma and captured regulatory agencies, I was still excited to see Bobby running for president, even if the only result was an Overton window shift toward the issues I care deeply about — human individual health freedom, chronic disease reversal, agriculture, and environmentalism. I’m what could be described as a “single issue” guy, although, as we’re seeing more and more clearly, it really is all one thing.
The party we call the Democrats have unequivocally taken a side in stark contrast to their claimed aims on almost every important issue, as RFK claims: health, first amendment rights, freedom of speech, and opposition to war. In the near-decade that Trump has been daily front-page news in the political sphere, the DNC has used the never-ending “emergency threat” of a MAGA uprising to cover the phenomenon of a complete and utter political realignment, which, for the first time in my adult memory, has directly infringed upon the rights and freedoms of millions of Americans in a way that is impossible to ignore. However, beyond the party being captured, I’ve noticed, more than any other political faction, that the participants (people that vote for Democrats) have absolutely no problem with this shift, have no real principles to speak of, and, unfortunately, are the biggest brainwashing targets, the biggest “marks” if you will, of anyone.
Of course, long-time conservatives and libertarians will snicker at such a late realization, and they’ve earned that right. I write this as someone who once ran, somewhat by default, in progressive circles, and this is written to hopefully awaken some deeply brainwashed liberals from their dangerous slumber, of course, I’m not holding my breath. I’d also argue that the track record for standard conservatism with respect to human health and the environment is less than stellar, and further evidence of a dramatic political realignment that we all feel since the Trump era.
I think everyone has a degree to which they’re interested in politics. Some are absorbed by it and make it the center of their lives. Others are more impartial observers. I always fell into the latter category, and still do. I remember my first year of college, my first opportunity to vote for president (presumably for Obama), I declined to participate. “It just feels dumb”, I remember thinking and saying. I can still picture the shock and horror of the faces of my friends and classmates when I told them this — I was equally shocked by their shock, thinking that this was a totally reasonable stance to have. Perhaps my intuition was more honed than I’d realized.
Admittedly, I fell for the Bernie Sanders hype — and voted for him in his first run at the Democratic primary nominee. I believe this was the first time I had ever officially voted for anything, and I believe it was the last. At that time in my life, I was deeply focused on the environmental and health issues I invoked earlier, and I fell for the con that Sanders was in any way a threat to the architects of our problems. Of course, whoever these architects are, they didn’t prefer Sanders per se, but as we all saw in real time (cough 2020), he rolled over and did his job without hesitation, with an added cherry on top of masterminding the COVID CARES act, telling all his followers to take an experimental Pfizer product, and stay faithfully locked in your apartment with an N95 mask properly fitted at all times.
COVID
Which brings me to COVID, of course.
Hindsight is always 20/20. What became crystal clear during COVID was evident in the years (decades?) preceding it, with red flags abound. I remember questioning, very gently, the modern USA childhood vaccine schedule in the back half of the 2010s on various platforms, only to be scolded and ridiculed by so-called progressives and liberals. This feels weird, I remember thinking — like this sudden polarity shift wasn’t organic, was engineered from the top-down. Of course, it was, and not only with respect to vaccines, but essentially every major health and environmental topic — the genetic modification of huge swaths of our farmland percentage and food supply, the decision to spray said crops with ever-increasing quantities of RoundUp weed killer (among countless other poisions), questioning medical and pharma ethics and alignments, regulatory capture — being on the “wrong” (correct) side of these issues would suddenly be grounds for dismissal from polite society, being labeled a conspiracy theorist, a crank, “Q-anon” (a personal favorite of mine).
The stage was set. One had to choose between reality and illusion. Quite literally the blue pill or the red pill (Bob’s, perhaps?) … and what confused me was how easy it was for liberals, leftists, progressives, “communists”, etc. to buy up an illusion sold to them by evil industries, actors, and forces who have nothing but bad intentions for them and humanity at large. I mean it when I called Democrat voters the biggest marks around. I say this without an ounce of vitriol or hatred in my heart, but rather out of deep sadness and confusion. How else do you explain falling, hook line and sinker, for Russia Gate, mRNA vaccine efficacy, Gretchen Whitmer kidnappings, wet market COVID origins, climate “models” and resultant fear-mongering — to count just a very select few?
Liberals trust the mainstream media more than any other political group (conservatives, independents) and that trust increased during an eight year stretch where MSM truth and accuracy fell off a cliff, from an already laughable track record. The lack of intellectual curiosity, gullibility, and all-around allergy to the truth is disconcerting, and I can’t have anything to do with it whatsoever anymore — not that I was ever invested in the first place. I know, I know, “conservatives fall for shit too!”, but it’s just different. There’s a stark energy to the liberal denial of base-reality that is incredibly troubling, and I’m not sure how we talk about this. Anyone with even slightly heterodox views compared to liberal orthodoxy knows how difficult, nay, impossible it is to have a reasonable conversation with a TV-brainwashed liberal (TV being a stand-in term these days for instagram reels, Tik Tok, pick your flavor). This is especially challenging when it is a long-term friend — who have a penchant for de-friending you over the “wrong” stance on mask mandates or puberty blockers for kids.
In my personal lives, it was the conservatives that fought for my choice to refuse a Pfizer product. It was the conservatives who had the more open ear, and a more honed skepticism of institutions that clearly were lying to us. I’ve noticed from my more centrist-rational-yet-dem-voter friends that they will generally catch up about 3-5 years too late on any given topic — after the high stakes season has passed, after deferring to the bog-standard side on any issue, after others courageously fought for them to sheepishly admit a well-known truth. But the dyed-in-the-wool liberals and progressives are living in another dimension entirely, it seems. Two movies, one screen, as Scott Adams puts it.
I think that over the last century, many voices and activists in the natural health, free speech, and environmental spaces got labeled as “progressives”, and the liberal-progressive-dem matrix adopted that as a platonic ideal, never meant to actually fulfill or uphold. Also, I am highly critical of standard conservative policies that got us into huge messes environmentally, regulatory-wise, and health-wise — Reagan’s national vaccine injury compensation act and his administration’s push to deregulate glyphosate, GMOs, and other environmental poisons and endocrine disruptors are glaring examples.
However, the current Democrat establishment has zero interest in being a foil to these policies, and instead has completely absorbed them. When Nicole Shanahan, RFK’s running mate, was pleaded with by the Kennedy family to rescind support of the presidential candidate — a mindfuck in its own right — they asked what it would take for her to consider a different path. She stated “just remove the liability shield that vaccine manufacturers have for their products on the children’s vaccine schedule”, the Kennedys responded with “let us check”, followed by a “we can’t do that, sorry”.
Of course, this begs the question, why are the Kennedys ambassadors against their own relative’s political aspirations — born out of a desire to clean up the environment, our food supply, and our medical corruption? Who are they checking with when they say “let us check”? Why do they need to check in the first place? These are things I guarantee a normal liberal voter has never even pondered. If they did, they might reconsider their political alliances.
What most alarms me isn’t how the Democratic Party conducts its internal affairs or runs its candidates. What alarms me is the resort to censorship, media control, and weaponization of the federal agencies. When a U.S. president colludes with, or outright coerces, media companies to censor political speech, it’s an attack on our most sacred right of free expression. And that’s the very right upon which all of our other constitutional rights rest.
In retrospect, it was a masterful stroke of decades-long propaganda to paint RFK, a man who helped clean up the Hudson River by holding polluters accountable, who wrote a book on the horrors of corruption within the COVID regime, who fights for removing environmental pollutants from our children’s bloodstreams and brains, as the wack job, the conspiracy theorist, the untrustworthy one, compared to Biden, Harris, Clinton, Walz, AOC, and others.
Dear Liberals
I don’t see a way back for the true believer liberal Democrat voters. I miss being able to talk to them about important issues, because I know the conversation won’t go anywhere interesting or truthful. I’ll just be talking to the TV, to Don Lemon or Rachel Maddow. I don’t know how to explain that they truly aren’t “pro-vax” and they definitely don’t despise “anti-vaxxers”, if propaganda weren’t involved in the calculus. Liberals often condescendingly refer to their friends they lost to “MAGA” or “Q-Anon” — I’ve lost the liberals in my life. They’re still there, but the conversations are hollow. I think it’s obvious that their political project has morphed into one that is wrong — both morally and factually. It’s not only wrong that mRNA vaccines are safe or stop transmission, but it’s wrong to censor people who speak the truth on such subjects — or cheer on those who do.
Many months ago, I promised the American people that I would withdraw from the race if I became a spoiler and altered the outcome of the election, but I had no chance of winning. In my heart, I no longer believe that I have a realistic path to electoral victory in the face of this relentless, systematic censorship and media control … Furthermore, our polling consistently showed that by staying on the ballot in the battleground states, I would likely hand the election over to the Democrats, with whom I disagree on the most existential issues: censorship, war, and chronic disease.
I don’t believe in the liberal nonsense of “pinching your nose and voting for a less-than-ideal candidate” because the Democratic establishment directly supports evil that I don’t support and am incredibly concerned about — censoring truth, forcing kids to take harmful medications in order to attend school, leveraging technology corporations and the judicial system against political opponents, funding useless war and financial aid to everyone but actual Americans. The mask is off and the juice isn’t worth the squeeze any more — it never was for me, but it shouldn’t be for you, either.
If you never questioned putting you kid in an N95 for ten hours a day, or why the entire establishment is dead-set against Trump, RFK, or why the New York Post was censored from posting a true news story showing a Democratic candidate in bad light, I’m not sure you’re ever going to get it. However, I’ll be waiting for you on the side of sanity with open arms, and will always be willing to have a good faith discussion about any of these topics.
I’m not an RFK or Trump superfan by any stretch of the imagination, and have my doubts regarding what could even be accomplished by such a cabinet. Again, I’m not holding my breath — I decided in 2016 that I would never vote again in my life. However, to ignore the blatant nonsense spouted by the other side over the last four to ten years is something I’m not willing to do. Many have claimed we are being fooled by the establishment yet again and RFK is playing sheepdog. RFK directly opposed his enemies, while Bernie told you to vote for his. I implore you to read RFK’s drop-out speech. If not, enjoy voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz — by the way, he created a snitch-on-your-neighbor COVID 1-800 hotline and is on record opposing the First Amendment. I’m sure “both sides are the same”.
Vice President Harris has expressed no interest in addressing this issue. Four more years of Democratic rule will complete the consolidation of corporate and Neocon power, and our children will be the ones who suffer most. I got involved with chronic disease 20 years ago, not because I chose or wanted to. It was essentially thrust upon me; it was an issue that should have been central to the environmental movement. I was an essential leader at the time. But it was widely ignored by all the institutions including the NGOs who should have been protecting our kids against toxins. It was an orphaned issue, and I have a weakness for orphans. I watched generations of children get sicker and sicker. I had 11 siblings and I have 7 kids myself. I was conscious of what was happening in their classrooms and to their friends. And I watched sick kids, these damaged kids in that generation, almost all of them were damaged and nobody in power seemed to care or to even notice.
For 19 years I prayed every morning that God would put me in a position to end this calamity. The chronic disease crisis was one of the primary reasons for my running for president along with ending the censorship and the Ukraine war. It’s the reason I’ve made the heart-wrenching decision to suspend my campaign and to support President Trump. This decision is agonizing for me because of the difficulties it causes my wife, and my children, and my friends, but I have the certainty that this is what I’ve meant to do, and that certainty gives me internal peace, even in storms.
This is what courage looks like. Bernie, Noam Chomsky, etc. take notes.
Cheers
-Psi
Just saw on twitter, Haircut Glen is looking dope!
Spot on.