Robert F. Kennedy Jr., independent challenger for president and anti-vaccine activist, has a cockamamie solution for drug addicts and people who use medication for depression or ADHD: strip people of their tech gadgets and send them to government-funded "wellness farms" to grow organic food. Doesn't that sound suspiciously... like a labor camp?! Kennedy extolled this […]
I don’t see why you’re downvoted. The headline is directly misquoting him.
I don’t agree with him on much, but having optional organic farms like a peace corp is not a terrible idea to help people. There’s lots of mental health benefits to getting into nature, eating healthy, being active, etc. It’s not going to help everyone, but that idea on its own isn’t crazy for a government mental health program.
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Up to the countryside and down to the mountains, then?
Or, you know, the New Deal.
The current administrations track record with things such as the COVID-19 epidemic would probably end with us smashing sparrows. I would love a proper New Deal - I hope the subsequent administration/government hires artists and architects and we spend our money on building new hospitals and painting them with murals. I would love protections for small farmers - perhaps the avian flu epidemic will devastate Tyson etc to the point small farming will be the only feasible option for a while and we can install protections so that this shit never happens again.
That is not what is happening here though. The weaponization of mental health against minoritized groups, political dissidents, and activists is clearly the plan here.
The journalism is trash. The Author may think RFK is “Batshit” but they should never include such a word in a factual news report.