To Hell With Horse-Race Politics: I Hope RFK Jr. ‘Steals’ Votes From All the Corrupt SOBs
RFK Jr. today declared his candidacy as an independent, formally abandoning his station on the Democrat Party plantation – the overseers of which despised and defamed him, at any rate, and essentially forced his hand.
No self-respecting man would have stayed with them after what hell they put him and his family through.
The bulk of the commentary in the partisan media regarding the move is tedious speculation about which candidate – Trump (or his GOP replacement if he’s locked up on trumped-up charges) or Biden (or Michelle Obama or Gavin Newsom once the technocrats make the swap) – RFK Jr. will ultimately pull more votes from.
(After all, what are the lapdog mainstream media supposed to cover, the substance of his rhetoric? That would only implicate them in their criminal complicity with the corporate state.)
Or, in their parlance, they’re obsessed with whom RFK Jr. will “steal votes from”.
The semantics give the game away. The two wings of the uniparty genuinely believe themselves to be entitled to the support of their share of the electorate in the kabuki theatre that is national politics, no matter how despised they become and how far they sell their own constituents down the river for the sake of their precious donors.
Accordingly, they despise alternative parties and candidates that threaten their monopoly on the political machine.
The proper response to such pearl-clutching by overfed Beltway pundits is that if mainstream candidates from the uniparty want more votes, they should try their best not to suck just as much as they do. It’s not on RFK Jr. to remedy the low (and plummeting) regard they are held in by American voters.
Not only do I not shed a tear for whichever candidates RFK Jr.’s run as an independent “steals” votes from – I applaud it and desire that it sinks them entirely.
If there’s any merit to it at all, RFK Jr.’s candidacy ought to function as a metaphorical nuke that annihilates the Swamp vampires who feed parasitically on the American middle and working classes.
Here’s hoping RFK Jr.’s announcement is just a prelude to the gloves really coming off.
Give ‘em hell, Bobby!
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I’m happy to see RFK Jr. Enter the race as an Independent. He will elevate the debate and while the corporate media will continue in their role as collaborators to the ruling elite, some intelligent discussion on actual issues will happen on podcasts and other non-traditional election coverage.
While what you say about the “Uni-Party” is correct, only one party “steals votes” and that is the Democrat party. RFK Jr being forced to run outside of his multi-generational family’s political party will ultimately be a good thing for our country. No matter what the outcome of this election, the amount of cheating required by Democrats to steal this election will spectacular.
Biden is a wondering, remote controlled buffoon and Trump for all his drain the swamp talk is a pro-government egomaniacal institutionalist. We need someone who despises the state apparatus and has a personal vendetta against the powers that be. I'll roll the dice on whoever that dissident may be.