Currently listening to Dr Peterson interviewing RFK. (I know those names are like sunlight to vampires to some here).
Here’s the Cole’s notes of the five main reasons why RFK is disaffected with Democrats:
1 Dems not the party of peace anymore. It’s neo-cons gravitating towards the Democrats.
2 Dems no longer the party of the working class. RFK noted in 2020, 30% wealth in the US voted Trump; 70% wealth towards Biden. Dems are the party of “big.” Big pharma, big agriculture, big business, big media, and the military industrial complex. I would add the perverse culture of Hollyweird is wholly Democrat-aligned.
3 No longer the party of frees speech, but of censorship and surveillance. Harris saying the 1st amendment is a “privilege”, that it’s the government’s duty to fight “misinformation” and “disinformation.” (I hate those Orwellian words. I can’t and won’t use them without quotation marks). Centralization of information in Democratic Party.
4 inverted, narrow environmentalism in the Democrats. It’s carbon to the exclusion of other real concerns, such as the poison of additives, other Endocrine disrupters Republicans receptive to these problems. Democrats aren’t.
5 Dems not the party of democracy. Scuttling of the primaries. Chris Cuomo at the DNC pointing to the private boxes up above the plebs. Cuomo said they are the ones making the decisions. Dems tried to silence RFK but without irony said Putin’s electoral win was because he controlled media and apparatuses in Russia.
I would add another point: It’s the Democratic machine and Democratic executive branch actively funding and promoting human trafficking across the border.
Cults are insular. After hearing RFK’s reasons for leaving, it’s obvious the Democrats are increasingly insular. They can take the **** Cheneys, but that’s hardly a bragging right of a broad coalition. It’s comical reading the cope of how MAGA is a cult. Yet MAGA has absorbed MAHA, the fresh ideas that go with it, and the admirable ideals of the Democrats from yesteryear. It’s been a swap of the Republican’s worst (Cheney) for the Democrats’ best in ideas and people.
Wasn’t 2022 the year it stayed bone dry until late October then lurched into a hard freeze (with snow for some of us) in early November? Not going to be like that west of the Cascades.