• Cyborganism
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    26 days ago

    Maybe I am an idiot. I’d be willing to admit it if I was presented with the evidence that RFK is a complete crackpot.

    But I have a gut feeling that there’s something bigger at play here and that the American media, which is extremely biased in general towards either the Democrats or the Republicans, might actually be doing a smear campaign against him because he is very much anti-capitalist. Or at least anti-corporation.

    He has been praised in the past for doing good deeds for working class people and the environment and fighting the system.

    On the other hand, the pandemic really had brought out the worst in some people. And maybe that was the case with RFK. I’m still learning more about him.

    For example, I’ve distanced myself from one of my best friends from childhood since the pandemic because of his views on vaccines and mask mandates and every other measures implemented and all the conspiracies surrounding them. I’ve been encouraging people to get vaxxed and to follow the measures in place because I knew it was for our collective best interest and to help minimize infections and deaths and allow us to get out of that pandemic as quickly as we could. That period really brought out the worst in him and that was mostly because he started to follow more conservative channels, and the whole internet algorithms simply pulled him further down that path.

    • CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
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      25 days ago

      But I have a gut feeling that there’s something bigger at play here and that the American media, which is extremely biased in general towards either the Democrats or the Republicans, might actually be doing a smear campaign against him because he is very much anti-capitalist. Or at least anti-corporation.

      The reason it’s always D vs R is systemic. Our election system punishes similar candidates that run against each other. Because of this, our political parties are more like coalitions, made up of a number of different groups who strategically send out only one candidate, which is decided in primary elections.

      As a result, the people who end up running third party for president are usually delusional, looking for attention, or intentional spoilers. So the fact that RFK jr has a screw loose is not surprising, and I would be more concerned about a conspiracy if our media elevated him to the level of the other candidates when it is undeserved and detrimental.