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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) did the unthinkable: he spoke powerful truths about the Democratic Party that reverberated around the world.
The truth has a price. RFK Jr. not only ran for president independently in defiance of the Democratic Party leadership, he also committed the unforgivable sin of endorsing Donald J. Trump. What he did required great courage and fortitude. He became one of the courageous figures his late uncle, John F. Kennedy, wrote in 1955.
Let me go on a bit of nostalgia. Kennedy and I were both born in the 1960s, so we have a lot in common. We were both Baby Boomers, born in 1954, so we were less than two months apart. Ours was a time of political protest, civil rights, and patriotism.
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We both had front-row seats to the birth of social movements that empowered women, gays, blacks and environmentalists, and we witnessed the assassinations of Presidents John F. Kennedy (1960), Malcolm X (1965), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (April 1968) and Robert F. Kennedy SR (June 1968). Although the assassinations shocked us, we grew up in an era when it was normal for kids to believe that living in the greatest country on earth and being an American was something special to cherish.
Most importantly, we both grew up in times when we wanted to serve our country. Many of us remember a powerful line from my late uncle’s presidential address: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Those words held powerful meaning for a generation old enough to ponder their meaning.
As RFK Jr. pointed out in his speech announcing his campaign’s end, the national Democratic Party in the 1960s was seen as “the defender of the Constitution and civil rights.”
The Democrats opposed authoritarianism, censorship, colonialism, imperialism, and unjust wars. We were the party of workers, the working class.
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But today’s Democrats are different. They have rejected everything that made America the great nation in the world. They have rejected competitive elections, where candidates compete and debate for the presidential nomination. Instead, they have come to field hand-picked candidates recommended by the media.
While Democrats condemn racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, and other great evils, there is a pattern of using members of identity groups to achieve their own ends, even though those ends are often contrary to the interests of the American people. The Democrats today are the party of elitism, wealth, big money, big pharma, and judicial activism, and they will use legal battles to punish their political opponents, even if that means passing laws that invent crimes that were not recognized as crimes until the party realized it had an interest in defeating its opponents.
Kennedy said what most alarms him is the party’s “resort to censorship, media control and weaponization of federal agencies. For the president of the United States to collude with media companies or overtly force them to censor political speech is an assault on our most sacred right of free expression – a right on which all our other constitutional rights are founded.”
In fact, propaganda and media control have robbed Americans of the open and honest debate that comes with a free society. That’s evil, but it’s getting worse.
Democrats plan to destroy the independence of the Supreme Court by packing it with liberal justices who will make the decisions long sought by progressives who want to turn America into a socialist state. To get the simple majority needed to change the size of the Supreme Court, Democrats are willing to make dreamy promises. Struggling Americans are seduced by promises of “free” solutions to their problems: free housing, free health care, free education, free transportation, almost anything they want. Of course, if this comes to fruition, America will go down the same path as Venezuela, Cuba, and other failed national experiments.
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I left the Democratic Party in the early 2000s and, like RFK Jr., was an Independent until 2009. I realized many years ago, as RFK Jr. did recently, that the Democratic Party was not truly about freedom. That prompted my evolution. (You can read more about my journey in my free e-book,Democrat to Republican: A Southern Black Woman’s Journey to Freedom,” is available on Be the People News. I wrote, “Being black, Christian and a Democrat was as natural to me as breathing.”
My departure from the Democratic Party was gradual and closely linked to my conversion to Christianity in the late 1990s, which was a natural progression from my progression from Democrat to Independent to Republican.
As part of this journey, I was a political appointee to both George W. Bush and Barack Obama when I was an Independent, and then, after becoming a Republican, I was appointed by President Trump to his short-lived 1776 Commission, serving as Vice Chairman for less than a month.
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Today, as a conservative Christian, I praise and welcome RFK Jr. in whatever role God has given him.
If President Trump is re-elected, Kennedy may have the opportunity to use his knowledge and experience to achieve badly needed health care reform under the next Republican administration. Whatever Kennedy Jr.’s future holds, we should be grateful that there are still a few Democrats with the integrity, vision and savvy to stand up and hold their party accountable.