My vote is for miracles, but then I believe in miracles. No belief, no miracle. We need some right about now.
I know it is difficult to observe all that is transpiring, seeing so many of the moving parts at work, and to add up what it is pointing to. It's easier to continue to consider and test different ways of stopping it. And I don't know, but perhaps some of it can be stopped despite the centuries over which this plan has been moving inexorably forward.
Would stopping it then solve the problem, or would it just buy us a little more time? I said "centuries" but in truth this day has been millennia in the making, over which we have been buying time as technology -- in particular -- has continued its advance. When time is up, it's up. After thousands of years of trying things that only helped for a while, maybe it's time to try something different.
Consider that from our history, beginning to end, we may have succeeded in demonstrating conclusively that the root problem is _us_, and that we are incapable of correcting it by ourselves. And pray for miracles. There might be somebody waiting and listening. Wouldn't that be a surprise?
I have a long list of things I like about Kennedy, and I am indebted to him for writing “The Real Anthony Fauci”. But I will not do anything that would empower the socialist ‘defund the police’ party, so if he got the nomination to be the Presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, I could not vote for him. The party elites will never allow him to come to power anyway; his book exposes the entire batch of lies and crimes committed by them during the Covid debacle, which would politically ruin every one of those insiders. I would bet that Kennedy is astute enough to realize that they will ignore him and disparage him until his campaign runs out of money.
So here’s my best-case scenario: his candidacy will lead a few million more citizens to read his book, which will open their eyes, change their minds, and cause them to lend their copies of Kennedy’s book to their friends, and the word will spread. People will then read other books, such as Dr. Malone’s and Dr. Kory’s, and outrage will build. Here’s where my vision gets really pie-in-the-sky - everyone wakes up and chucks the whole corrupt Deep Swamp. So yeah, not likely to entirely happen.But there could be progress, and ultimately - decades from now - vindication!
What could be interesting in this election season is an unexpected event. What if Biden dies before the nomination convention? What if Trump dies, and the full might of the Republicans Party falls to De Santis? What if the Ukrainian situation comes perilously close to nuclear war before the Presidential election? We could certainly still be in for a riveting election year, with everything unpredictable!
There is no denying that the "Kennedy Democrat" is not the prototypical Democrat of today. Kennedy conceded as much in his speech.
For Kennedy to prevail in the primaries AND position himself to address the issues he enumerated in his speech, he is going to have to mount an almost Trumpian (is that a word? It is now! :D ) takeover of the Democratic Party.
In an earlier era, I would not have given such an effort a snowball's chance in Hell of succeeding. After Trump pulled off what amounted to a hostile takeover of the Republican Party apparatus in 2016, I can't rule Kennedy out completely, although he definitely has a battle ahead of him.
Trump showed that it can be done. Kennedy has to show that he can do it.
(Your pie-in-the-sky vision is not as radical as you might think. While Goldwater lost to Johnson in 1964, his campaign also marked the beginning of Ronald Reagan's political ascendancy, which culminated in his Presidency in 1980. Kennedy might lose....but yes, he could pave the way for another Reaganesque figure, particularly if he hews close to the libertarian ideals he espoused in his speech).
Yes. The fundamental difference between Kennedy’s view and mine is that he sees the Democratic Party as salvageable and readily able to be returned to the party of his youth. I do not.
Here in Minneapolis, the Democratic Party has been an entrenched political machine for more than fifty years. 80% of the populace votes Democrat no matter what. During the past few years, socialist and woke activists have come to dominate the party, and they are enacting the same policies that have pretty much destroyed San Francisco and Portland. Crime, homelessness, and drug addiction have soared - yet everyone keeps voting for the same party! I see their daily posts on Nextdoor.com, complaining about car thefts, armed robberies, drug addicts passed out on their lawns, etc. - but they do not seem to be able to match up cause with effect. It’s pretty frustrating. The only way for Kennedy’s vision to become reality is for everyone to WAKE UP. Can they? My hope is that enough people read books like “The Real Anthony Fauci” and all the brilliant authors on Substack , and change the course of this Titanic before it hits the iceberg.
But you are right - huge political upsets have happened before, and there IS still hope. There IS still time. America is an amazing nation!
Besides, space aliens could invade. Elvis could come back from the dead and run for President. I’m really grasping for straws in this election; the prospect of another long slog between Biden and Trump is just...TEDIOUS!
My vote is for miracles, but then I believe in miracles. No belief, no miracle. We need some right about now.
I know it is difficult to observe all that is transpiring, seeing so many of the moving parts at work, and to add up what it is pointing to. It's easier to continue to consider and test different ways of stopping it. And I don't know, but perhaps some of it can be stopped despite the centuries over which this plan has been moving inexorably forward.
Would stopping it then solve the problem, or would it just buy us a little more time? I said "centuries" but in truth this day has been millennia in the making, over which we have been buying time as technology -- in particular -- has continued its advance. When time is up, it's up. After thousands of years of trying things that only helped for a while, maybe it's time to try something different.
Consider that from our history, beginning to end, we may have succeeded in demonstrating conclusively that the root problem is _us_, and that we are incapable of correcting it by ourselves. And pray for miracles. There might be somebody waiting and listening. Wouldn't that be a surprise?
I have a long list of things I like about Kennedy, and I am indebted to him for writing “The Real Anthony Fauci”. But I will not do anything that would empower the socialist ‘defund the police’ party, so if he got the nomination to be the Presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, I could not vote for him. The party elites will never allow him to come to power anyway; his book exposes the entire batch of lies and crimes committed by them during the Covid debacle, which would politically ruin every one of those insiders. I would bet that Kennedy is astute enough to realize that they will ignore him and disparage him until his campaign runs out of money.
So here’s my best-case scenario: his candidacy will lead a few million more citizens to read his book, which will open their eyes, change their minds, and cause them to lend their copies of Kennedy’s book to their friends, and the word will spread. People will then read other books, such as Dr. Malone’s and Dr. Kory’s, and outrage will build. Here’s where my vision gets really pie-in-the-sky - everyone wakes up and chucks the whole corrupt Deep Swamp. So yeah, not likely to entirely happen.But there could be progress, and ultimately - decades from now - vindication!
What could be interesting in this election season is an unexpected event. What if Biden dies before the nomination convention? What if Trump dies, and the full might of the Republicans Party falls to De Santis? What if the Ukrainian situation comes perilously close to nuclear war before the Presidential election? We could certainly still be in for a riveting election year, with everything unpredictable!
There is no denying that the "Kennedy Democrat" is not the prototypical Democrat of today. Kennedy conceded as much in his speech.
For Kennedy to prevail in the primaries AND position himself to address the issues he enumerated in his speech, he is going to have to mount an almost Trumpian (is that a word? It is now! :D ) takeover of the Democratic Party.
In an earlier era, I would not have given such an effort a snowball's chance in Hell of succeeding. After Trump pulled off what amounted to a hostile takeover of the Republican Party apparatus in 2016, I can't rule Kennedy out completely, although he definitely has a battle ahead of him.
Trump showed that it can be done. Kennedy has to show that he can do it.
(Your pie-in-the-sky vision is not as radical as you might think. While Goldwater lost to Johnson in 1964, his campaign also marked the beginning of Ronald Reagan's political ascendancy, which culminated in his Presidency in 1980. Kennedy might lose....but yes, he could pave the way for another Reaganesque figure, particularly if he hews close to the libertarian ideals he espoused in his speech).
Yes. The fundamental difference between Kennedy’s view and mine is that he sees the Democratic Party as salvageable and readily able to be returned to the party of his youth. I do not.
Here in Minneapolis, the Democratic Party has been an entrenched political machine for more than fifty years. 80% of the populace votes Democrat no matter what. During the past few years, socialist and woke activists have come to dominate the party, and they are enacting the same policies that have pretty much destroyed San Francisco and Portland. Crime, homelessness, and drug addiction have soared - yet everyone keeps voting for the same party! I see their daily posts on Nextdoor.com, complaining about car thefts, armed robberies, drug addicts passed out on their lawns, etc. - but they do not seem to be able to match up cause with effect. It’s pretty frustrating. The only way for Kennedy’s vision to become reality is for everyone to WAKE UP. Can they? My hope is that enough people read books like “The Real Anthony Fauci” and all the brilliant authors on Substack , and change the course of this Titanic before it hits the iceberg.
But you are right - huge political upsets have happened before, and there IS still hope. There IS still time. America is an amazing nation!
Besides, space aliens could invade. Elvis could come back from the dead and run for President. I’m really grasping for straws in this election; the prospect of another long slog between Biden and Trump is just...TEDIOUS!
Trump vs Kennedy, on the other hand, could be entertaining.
Kennedy is the policy wonk that Trump isn't, and Trump is the showman that Kennedy isn't.
Spot on analysis, Mr. Kust, as usual!