On RFK, Jr. Throwing Help to Donald Trump

Dr. Richard Moskowitz is an elder statemen who has been a valued member of the vaccine harm consciousness neighborhood and AofA contributor for a few years. He was a volunteer doctor at Woodstock! (That is a dinner dialog I would get pleasure from. Do not eat the brown acid.) A Harvard educated MD, he practiced homeopathy in his Massachusetts household observe for greater than 50 years. He wrote Vaccines A Reappraisal for Skyhorse Pubishing in 2017 (one among many revealed items.) I had the pleasure of assembly him in individual in 2019, earlier than Covid hit. He is a kind of individuals who immediately conveys a quiet authority, and kindness. Beneath are his ideas on RFK, Jr.’s determination to withdraw from the Presidential race, and assist Donald Trump. Spoiler alert: He’s NOT comfortable. As ever, our mission precludes endorsing any candidate. Our readers come from all political persuasions. Thanks to Dr. Moskowitz.  Be happy to remark, and if you happen to disagree, please stay civil. I imply it. Thanks.  Kim

By Richard Moskowitz, MD

I used to be away final week when RFK Jr. threw his assist to Trump, of all folks, which felt to me like a surprising betrayal of rock-bottom American values that I and so many others really feel most strongly dedicated to, a few of which he nonetheless claims to carry pricey, like aiding and defending essentially the most primary wants of peculiar folks, and particularly the poor, sick, aged, and deprived, as towards the profit-driven agendas of the obscenely wealthy and the large companies.

Particularly offensive was the truth that not so way back he was a hero to me and plenty of others, for serving to to show and publicize the hazards of vaccines, and for calling out the drug corporations, not just for their greed, for which they had been already well-known, but in addition for his or her fraudulent science, which helped them to take over the CDC, FDA, and NIH, and finally management these Federal businesses that had been supposed to control and restrain them. This too ought to be a signature situation for the Democrats, because the social gathering of FDR and the New Deal, who created these businesses for exactly that function.

He was subsequently completely proper to spotlight that situation, to take the Democratic Get together to process for failing to acknowledge it, and to be outraged when the Democratic Nationwide Committee refused to take it significantly sufficient to ask the voters about it, dismissed him as a nut case, and sidelined his personal political ambitions, simply as they’d completed with Bernie Sanders in 2016, each as a result of and despite his successful main after main.

However as a substitute of arguing it out with the social gathering management, as Bernie did by persuading the Platform Committee to undertake a lot of his reforms (which the Biden Administration really enacted after 2020), RFK Jr. opted to run on his personal, first as a insurgent Democrat, and finally as an Impartial, declaring conflict not solely on the Democratic Get together, however on the two-party system itself, which, for all its faults, is the system we have had for generations, such that the center of a Presidential election marketing campaign is totally essentially the most inappropriate time to alter it, if that is what must occur.

The unwisdom of that alternative is much more obvious within the current occasion, the place one of many candidates not solely got here near overturning the results of the final election on the premise of voter fraud with out offering any proof of it, however brazenly advocates overthrowing our democracy by changing into a dictator if he wins it, and thus rendering future elections pointless. To serve that finish, he has primarily gained over the nation-wide Republican Get together equipment, together with its well-oiled equipment for suppress-ing eligible minority voters, to his agenda. On prime of that, there’s the well-known and certainly infamous reality of his unapologetic and certainly triumphantly psychopathic persona construction, his easy mendacity to the purpose of denying even the opportunity of goal fact, his legal file of rape, sexual abuse, stiffing his contractors, and taxpayer fraud. And there’s the truth that he gained in 2016, and has sufficient of a nationwide following to guarantee a really shut election and to confidently threaten to overturn this one as properly if he loses.

In brief, this imminent, outspoken, and deadly-serious menace to our democratic lifestyle upstages the everyday maneuvering and takes priority over the traditional give-and-take of our electoral course of, cries out for the broadest doable coalition of voters to stop that from taking place, together with the By no means-Trumpers and pro-choice girls from his personal social gathering, disaffected Democrats rightly disillusioned by the willful blindness of their very own Nationwide Committee and high-end donors, and even the mother and father and pals of vaccine-injured youngsters who dearly wish to consider within the insurance policies RFK Jr. purports to face for.

Underneath these circumstances, RFK Jr.’s candidacy was a possible disaster-in-the-making even when it started. He’s one man, filled with concepts, not a nationwide social gathering backing candidates on the state and native stage. Thus, even with the spectacular numbers of the disaffected who’ve naively positioned their hopes in him, even when he managed to get on the poll in each state, and even when he attracted mega-donors to his trigger, all of which he has the truth is completed or practically so, he may by no means presumably have gained the election. To place it in another way, the one doable success of his candidacy was to win voters from both or each of the nationwide events, and from the independents or uncommitted.

Within the shut election that everybody has been anticipating, these Kennedy voters may even have swung the election in a unique course; however Trump was at all times the probably beneficiary. That was and is partly as a result of his candidacy originated from such widespread and justified dissatisfaction with the Democrats over vaccination, and partly as a result of the Republicans have alertly seized upon the problem and made a present of taking it significantly.

That was dangerous sufficient.

However the truth that now, realizing he cannot win, he has withdrawn from the race, and requested his supporters to vote for Trump, implies that he aspires to and hopes for a job sooner or later Trump Administration, and iseven ready to miss Trump’s psycho-pathology and his outspoken menace to our democracy due to it.

To me that claims loud and clear that his essential goal is and certainly at all times was merely to be “a any person,” as Marlon Brando stated in “On the Waterfront,” to be a serious contender on the extent of his celebrated father and uncle, though siding with Trump and certainly making his victory that rather more doable would make each of them flip over of their graves. It’s past perception that somebody as astute and skilled as he may significantly beieve that, even when he did assist Trump win, and if Trump really named him as Secretary of Well being, Training, and Welfare, he may really obtain the coverage adjustments his supporters are hoping for.

Absolutely he should understand that the Democrats are clueless about vaccines and their menace to human well being as a result of they naively “belief the science” that their docs are promoting them, whereas the Republicans mistrust it as a result of they hate the very concept of the CDC, the FDA, the NIH, the civil service, and the federal govern-ment itself, as having authority over their on a regular basis lives, such that they might hate and mistrust them much more in the event that they did their jobs faithfully and successfully. If RFK Jr. would not know that, or has forgotten it within the warmth of his ambition, he’s as misguided as his most naive disciples. If, as I think, he’s properly conscious of how our system works, he’s merely on a colossal ego journey.

Both manner, I am down on my knees begging, imploring, and pleading together with his followers, a lot of whom are my pals and esteemed colleagues, to withstand voting in response to what of their hearts they wish to be true, and as a substitute to vote towards the psychopath whose said goal is to carry a couple of new state of affairs wherein they’ll not want or be allowed to vote in any respect.

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