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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) did the unthinkable. He spoke a powerful truth about the Democratic Party that was heard around the world.
The truth has its price. Not only has RFK Jr. challenged the leadership of the Democratic Party by launching an independent presidential campaign, but he has also committed the unforgivable sin of supporting Donald J. Trump. What he has done takes great courage and fortitude. He has become one of the brave ones his late uncle John F. Kennedy wrote about all those years ago in 1955.
Let me wax nostalgic for a moment. As children of the 1960s, Kennedy and I have a lot in common. We are baby boomers whose birthdays were less than two months apart in 1954. Ours was the time of political protest, civil rights and patriotism.
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We both witnessed the emergence of social movements that empowered women, gays, blacks, and environmentalists. We witnessed the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy (1960), Malcolm X (1965), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (April 1968), and Robert F. Kennedy, SR (June 1968). Although we were stunned by the assassinations, we grew up in a time when children still believed that we lived in the greatest country in the world and that being an American was something special to be cherished.
Most importantly, we both grew up in a time when we wanted to serve our country. Many of us remember the powerful statement from his late uncle’s address to the President: “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” Those words had a powerful meaning for the generation old enough to reflect on the meaning of those words.
As RFK Jr. emphasized in his speech announcing the end of his campaign, the national Democratic Party in the 1960s was considered a “champion of the Constitution and civil rights.” Kennedy said:
The Democrats opposed authoritarianism, censorship, colonialism, imperialism and unjust wars. We were the party of the workers, of the working class.
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But today’s Democratic Party is unrecognizable. It has rejected everything that made America great in the world. It has turned against the competitive election of candidates who compete and debate each other for their presidential nomination. Instead, it now installs hand-picked candidates who are praised by the media.
While the Democratic Party denounces racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, and other great evils, it routinely uses members of identity groups to further its own goals, even though those goals often conflict with the interests of the American people, including members of the identity groups it claims to represent. The Democrats are now the party of elitism, wealth, big money, the pharmaceutical industry, and legal activism, punishing its political opponents through legal means, even if that means passing laws to invent crimes that were only recognized as such when the party saw an interest in eliminating an opponent.
What worries him most, Kennedy said, is the party’s “access to censorship, media control and the use of federal agencies as a weapon. When a U.S. president colludes with media companies or directly forces them to censor political speech, it is an attack on our most sacred right to free speech. And that right is precisely what all our other constitutional rights are based on.”
In fact, propaganda and media control have deprived Americans of the open and honest debate that comes with free societies. As bad as that is, it gets worse.
Democrats have a plan to destroy the autonomy of the U.S. Supreme Court by packing the courts with liberal judges who will be expected to make decisions long demanded by progressive politicians seeking to transform America into a socialist nation. To get the simple majority needed to change the size of the court, Democrats are willing to promise the moon. Americans in trouble are lured with promises of “free” solutions to their problems: free housing, free health care, free education, free transportation, pretty much anything they desire. Of course, if that were to happen, America would go the way of 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. Like RFK Jr. more recently, I realized many years ago that the Democratic Party was not really for freedom. That spurred my evolution. (You can read about my journey in my free e-book, From Democrat to Republican: A Black Southerner’s Journey to Freedom, available through Be the People News. I wrote, “Being Black, Christian and Democrat came as naturally to me as breathing.”)
My departure from the Democratic Party was gradual and closely tied to my conversion to Christianity in the late 1990s. The transition to Christianity was a natural progression that took me from Democrat to Independent to Republican.
As part of that journey, I received political appointments from George W. Bush and Barack Obama while serving as an Independent, and later as a Republican from President Trump through his short-lived 1776 Commission, where I served as Vice-Chair for less than a month.
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Today, as a conservative Christian, I applaud and welcome RFK Jr., whatever role God has intended for him.
If President Trump is re-elected, Kennedy may have the opportunity to use his knowledge and experience to push through much-needed health care reforms during the next Republican administration. Whatever RFK Jr.’s future holds, we should be thankful that there are still a few Democrats who have the integrity, vision and knowledge to stand up and hold their party accountable.
