America's Historic Beliefs and Principles are in a State of War
RFK, Jr.'s Campaign, an Emergent Recession, and an Angry Mother Nature
It’s been a couple of days after the annual celebration of being an American. There were firework displays. Televised acts of entertainment.
The corporate media tried in vain to make it appear that everything was fine within the American Empire. Patriotism, national prosperity, and a general sense of happiness were pumped through America’s airwaves.
But something was not right. Like bad Jazz music, the sound was off-key.
Americans at home viewed mostly small crowds at most of these televised venues - pretty much like at most major league ballparks these days. The crowds looked as if they were rented rather than being truly excited about being present to celebrate America’s exceptionalism.
Specifically, and noticeably, this year’s self-congratulatory exercises felt a bit….Listless. Lethargic. Overwrought. Forced.
In short, America did not appear to be in the expected mood to commemorate its historic origins. Something was decidedly wrong. It just didn’t feel right.
If you were one of those tens of millions of Americans on Tuesday - you were not alone, or wrong.
America is going through a rough patch. It politics. Its economy. Its national environment. All are troubled. Americans are looking for answers. And, to be truthful, there are not many to be found.
Presently, we are at the threshold of another American presidential election. Nobody does it better than America. It’s Showtime! It is a media extravaganza - par excellence. Damn it, we just know how to entertainment US voters - which barely half participate on the first Tuesday of November.
The current campaign of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is steadily becoming a Cormac McCarthy novel — like The Road or No Country For Old Men. RFK, Jr.’s quixotic political odyssey throughout America, fundamentally, represents an honest argument in a nation that badly desires one, but his political journey, in 2023, contains an element of existential darkness that can not and will not be avoided.
Hence, RFK, Jr.’s present political mission would fit nicely in one McCarthy’s brilliant and unnerving novels that defines and depicts the most basic human challenge - life and death. A challenge being played out in a foreboding and menacing environment.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s father, Robert Kennedy, was shot in Los Angeles after winning the California primary on June 4-5, 1968. His uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was murdered in Dallas on 22 November 1963. And, his other uncle, Ted Kennedy barely eluded death, in June 1964, a few months after JFK’s death, in an airplane crash in western Massachusetts.
Without argument, the Kennedy name elicits dreams of what might have been for millions of Americans. But, it also produces emotions of dread and memories of enormous pain and sorrow for these very same voters.
The Democratic Party, in 2023, has clearly lost its way. In fact, the Democrats lost their political compass over forty years ago. The Party abandoned American blue-collar voters during the Reagan Revolution. These American workers have not forgotten. Bernie Sanders got their support in 2016, and RFK, Jr. is gaining support amongst them today - but slowly.
In 2023, the Democratic Party has already decided that it will not conduct nor support any debates during the upcoming campaign season. Yet, historically, debates have been one of the fundamental pillars of American democracy.
What’s going on?
Well, America finds itself trapped in a national conundrum. For now, RFK, Jr. is the leading opponent (polling 20% amongst Democratic voters) to the reelection of current US president, Joe Biden, as the Democratic Party’s standard bearer.
The Democratic Party’s establishment is desperate to protect a visibly aging president. However, their fanatical intentions fly in the face of most polling of Democratic Party voters. They have irrefutably shown (upwards of 60% of Democratic Party voters) that they want someone else to represent the Party in the November 2024 presidential election.
RFK, Jr., like his father in 1968, is a longshot, but a dangerous candidate. Like his father, RFK, Jr. is challenging a sitting president in his own party. Like his father, RFK, Jr., has become the target of vicious attacks by the liberal establishment. Smears and untruths have become commonplace. But an increasing number of American voters are not buying the propaganda spewing from the basement of the Democratic Party in Washington, DC.
In truth, like his father, RFK, Jr., is gathering critical momentum by-the-day. He has received important endorsements and has raised millions for the arduous campaign ahead. He has been interviewed by all the major podcasts in America. He has been interviewed by all the local TV stations in America. The corporate media’s national blackout, TV and print, has hardly slowed the RFK campaign.
Thus, the Democratic Party, and America, will soon face an uncomfortable dilemma. First, are we still a nation that believes in the spirit and truth of democracy. Secondly, will the voters demand that RFK, Jr. get his day in debate.
I believe the answer to both questions is yes.
The brilliant but often contradictory Thomas Jefferson often expressed the core foundational belief that debate of ideas are critical for a stable democratic society. Hence, a debate in ideas is always preferable to the tyranny of ill-founded opinions and manufactured untruths.
This historic belief will become even more vital with the current state of the US economy and the dangerous advancement of Climate Change.
The US economy has shown negative numbers in critical areas for the past fourteen months. Unemployment has risen steadily. Companies in all sectors of American business, are laying off, or firing, hundreds of thousands of workers.
Businesses are closing. And, thousands of companies, domestically and internationally, are now considered “Zombie” entities. Thus, they are businesses in name only; who have (or been) become profitless over the past few years. Kept alive with low-interest rate loans and/or with Pandemic money.
Both sources of revenue are gone now.
Hiring has wilted significantly. The weekly job creation numbers promoted by Wall Street are no longer believed. Companies are now openly talking about implementing AI technology to replace high wage workers — especially those who have refused to come back to the office.
In short, a labor war is at hand. The US corporate media has not (and will not) publicize this battle. Nevertheless, American workers are fighting for their very financial survival. This conflict between business and labor with absolute certainty will play itself out in the upcoming 2024 presidential campaign.
A final note. The Global debt now stands at 92% of Global GDP at the end of 2022.
I will make it easy for you. US debt and Global debt have gotten much worse the last six months. A global recession is just the first wave of the oncoming financial storm.
Finally, Mother Nature is mad — at us — and for good reason. America and the world have been dragging their asses when it comes to Climate Change. There is no argument anymore. The data does not lie. Nor is it very comforting for the (8) billion passengers on the planet Earth.
As I write this article for substack.com, the world, not just America, the whole WORLD, has for the last two days (July 4-5, 2023) experienced the hottest temperatures ever recorded in modern history.
Need I say more?
Politics. Economics. Environment. It’s time we take back our country.
Time is not our friend.