On RFK, Jr. Throwing Support to Donald Trump
Dr. Richard Moskowitz is an elder statemen who has been a valued member of the vaccine injury awareness community and AofA contributor for many years. He was a volunteer physician at Woodstock! (That's a dinner conversation I'd enjoy. Don't eat the brown acid.) A Harvard trained MD, he practiced homeopathy in his Massachusetts family practice for more than 50 years. He wrote Vaccines A Reappraisal for Skyhorse Pubishing in 2017 (one of many published pieces.) I had the pleasure of meeting him in person in 2019,
before Covid hit. He's one of those people who instantly conveys a quiet authority, and kindness. Below are his thoughts on RFK, Jr.'s decision to withdraw from the Presidential race, and support Donald Trump. Spoiler alert: He is NOT happy. As ever, our mission precludes endorsing any candidate. Our readers come from all political persuasions. Thank you to Dr. Moskowitz. Feel free to comment, and if you disagree, please remain civil. I mean it. Thank you. Kim
By Richard Moskowitz, MD
I was away last week when RFK Jr. threw his support to Trump, of all people, which felt to me like a shocking betrayal of rock-bottom American values that I and so many others feel most strongly committed to, some of which he still claims to hold dear, like aiding and protecting the most basic needs of ordinary people, and especially the poor, sick, elderly, and disadvantaged, as against the profit-driven agendas of the obscenely rich and the big corporations.
Especially offensive was the fact that not so long ago he was a hero to me and many others, for helping to expose and publicize the dangers of vaccines, and for calling out the drug companies, not only for their greed, for which they were already famous, but also for their fraudulent science, which helped them to take over the CDC, FDA, and NIH, and ultimately control these Federal agencies that were supposed to regulate and restrain them. This too should be a signature issue for the Democrats, as the party of FDR and the New Deal, who created these agencies for precisely that purpose.
He was therefore entirely right to highlight that issue, to take the Democratic Party to task for failing to recognize it, and to be outraged when the Democratic National Committee refused to take it seriously enough to ask the voters about it, dismissed him as a nut case, and sidelined his own political ambitions, just as they had done with Bernie Sanders in 2016, both because and in spite of his winning primary after primary.
But instead of arguing it out with the party leadership, as Bernie did by persuading the Platform Committee to adopt many of his reforms (which the Biden Administration actually enacted after 2020), RFK Jr. opted to run on his own, first as a rebel Democrat, and ultimately as an Independent, declaring war not only on the Democratic Party, but on the two-party system itself, which, for all its faults, is the system we've had for generations, such that the middle of a Presidential election campaign is absolutely the most inappropriate time to change it, if that's what needs to happen.
The unwisdom of that choice is even more glaring in the present instance, where one of the candidates not only came close to overturning the result of the last election on the basis of voter fraud without providing any evidence of it, but openly advocates overthrowing our democracy by becoming a dictator if he wins it, and thus rendering future elections unnecessary. To serve that end, he has essentially won over the nation-wide Republican Party apparatus, including its well-oiled machinery for suppress-ing eligible minority voters, to his agenda. On top of that, there is the well-known and indeed notorious fact of his unapologetic and indeed triumphantly psychopathic personality structure, his effortless lying to the point of denying even the possibility of objective truth, his criminal record of rape, sexual abuse, stiffing his contractors, and taxpayer fraud. And there is the fact that he won in 2016, and has enough of a national following to assure a very close election and to confidently threaten to overturn this one as well if he loses.
In short, this imminent, outspoken, and deadly-serious threat to our democratic way of life upstages the typical maneuvering and takes precedence over the normal give-and-take of our electoral process, cries out for the broadest possible coalition of voters to prevent that from happening, including the Never-Trumpers and pro-choice women from his own party, disaffected Democrats rightly disillusioned by the willful blindness of their own National Committee and high-end donors, and even the parents and friends of vaccine-injured children who dearly want to believe in the policies RFK Jr. purports to stand for.
Under these circumstances, RFK Jr.'s candidacy was a potential disaster-in-the-making even when it began. He is one man, full of ideas, not a national party backing candidates at the state and local level. Thus, even with the impressive numbers of the disaffected who have naively placed their hopes in him, even if he managed to get on the ballot in every state, and even if he attracted mega-donors to his cause, all of which he has in fact accomplished or nearly so, he could never possibly have won the election. To put it differently, the only possible success of his candidacy was to win voters from either or both of the national parties, and from the independents or uncommitted.
In the close election that everyone has been expecting, these Kennedy voters could even have swung the election in a different direction; but Trump was always the most likely beneficiary. That was and is partly because his candidacy originated from such widespread and justified dissatisfaction with the Democrats over vaccination, and partly because the Republicans have alertly seized upon the issue and made a show of taking it seriously.
That was bad enough.
But the fact that now, realizing he can't win, he has withdrawn from the race, and asked his supporters to vote for Trump, means that he aspires to and hopes for a role in the future Trump Administration, and iseven prepared to overlook Trump's psycho-pathology and his outspoken threat to our democracy because of it.
To me that says loud and clear that his main objective is and indeed always was simply to be "a somebody," as Marlon Brando said in "On the Waterfront," to be a major contender on the level of his celebrated father and uncle, even though siding with Trump and indeed making his victory that much more possible would make both of them turn over in their graves. It is beyond belief that someone as astute and experienced as he could seriously beieve that, even if he did help Trump win, and if Trump actually named him as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, he could actually achieve the policy changes his supporters are hoping for.
Surely he must realize that the Democrats are clueless about vaccines and their threat to human health because they naively "trust the science" that their doctors are selling them, whereas the Republicans distrust it because they hate the very idea of the CDC, the FDA, the NIH, the civil service, and the federal govern-ment itself, as having authority over their everyday lives, such that they would hate and distrust them even more if they did their jobs faithfully and effectively. If RFK Jr. doesn't know that, or has forgotten it in the heat of his ambition, he is as misguided as his most naive disciples. If, as I suspect, he is well aware of how our system works, he is simply on a colossal ego trip.
Either way, I'm down on my knees begging, imploring, and pleading with his followers, many of whom are my friends and esteemed colleagues, to resist voting according to what in their hearts they would like to be true, and instead to vote against the psychopath whose stated objective is to bring about a new state of affairs in which they will no longer need or be allowed to vote at all.
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Harris' new campaign theme song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apBWI6xrbLY
Meanwhile.....
Middle class economics:
"It turns out the bakery that Sen. Tina Smith and Tim Walz are at in this photo, Daube's Cakes, closed its doors for good after over 30 years in June 2020 due to Walz' covid lockdowns"
https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1831694110069080410
Inflation Leaves the Middle Class Too Poor to Shop at Dollar Stores
"The malaise is hardly confined to this one retailer. Dollar General, Dollar Tree’s main competitor, saw a similar fate recently, with its shares shedding one-third of their value. The discount chains—once considered havens during economic downturns—are now emblematic of something more troubling: the weakening of consumer confidence across the board. The administration has promised economic recovery, but these results suggest a fundamental fracture at the heart of their policies.
“Inflation has continued to negatively impact these households, with more than 60 percent claiming they have had to sacrifice on purchasing basic necessities due to the higher cost of those items,” Dollar General CEO Todd Vasos said on an analyst call."
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/09/04/breitbart-business-digest-inflation-leaves-the-middle-class-too-poor-to-shop-at-dollar-stores/
Posted by: Emmaphiladelphia | September 05, 2024 at 05:57 PM
I am not a fan of either candidate, but will vote for Trump, the lesser of the two evils. This doctor does not sound like an independent, free thinker - like RFK Jr is - and therefore, will probably never understand why RFK did what he did... Honestly it sounds like he is suffering badly from TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).
Posted by: Ally | September 03, 2024 at 09:24 PM
why post this proven / debunked lies of "overthrowing democracy" when there is plenty of proof of voter fraud?
Posted by: Greg Lin | September 03, 2024 at 03:11 PM
Benedetta
Glad to be missed - sometimes I think I’ve run out of things to say.
Dick
If we just consider the grotesque brutality of the treatment of RFK Jr by Democrat politicians when he testified before the House last year I see no mitigating aspect to their performance, nothing to have truck with. What hope do these people offer our children - and if they are left to get on with it it will just be a thousand times worse in four years time. It’s not like we haven’t lived through a century of Hitler, Stalin, Mao…and it is not as if giant corporations are not behind it all.
Posted by: John Stone | September 03, 2024 at 10:58 AM
John Stone; Way over in the UK; You sure have been silent for a long while. This American woman
is a real piece of crap for threatening people right on the TV, while millions can see her, is taped, is recorded. Threats and heavy handed tactics is not going to go over well for them in the end, so take heart. There is going to be a big push back.
Richard Moskowitz, MD W
Hear this and hear it well; Vaccines do cause autism, and a group of leaders (just people) calling themselves the Democratic Party is a bunch of criminals trying to make you a serf. You are on your knees begging- by choice for now.
Posted by: Benedetta | September 03, 2024 at 09:23 AM
Agree with Foss.
Posted by: Jill in MI | September 03, 2024 at 08:35 AM
Dr M I want to make one more comment.
Had the Dems not played games with the party processsx (super delegates etc) instead of letting the process play out, Bernie would have won and Trump never would have been elected.
They are the ones who should have learned their lesson. They are doing the same exact thing. They might get it if they lose in 2024 again but how many more babies will be injured while we wait for them to finally listen? Countless.
This is 100% on the DNC. This is an act of self defense with the person who took the first shot playing victim.
It breaks my heart as a long time Democrat. But the DNC broke all the rules especially the one agout how the primary allows the party to truly listen to their people when done right. It prevents the splinter into independent runs. The DNC has broken our democratic processes since 2016 . It's wrong and again I say, this is on them.
Even in 2016 I called the party and reps and said that Trunp was going to get the vote of vax injured parents if they didn't start to GAF. And his margins were so slim o am sure I was right but I think their Pharma bribed pollsters (my assumption no proof) wouldn't let them know the depth of actual real people who care about this issue . Or they did know and persuaded themselves that it's okay to have collateral damage if enough money is to be made. Just close your eyes and pretend every vaccine is the same as polio just like every fentanyl tablet is the same as an aspirin tablet. Can't go banning any vax cuz polio. Can't go banning tablets cuz aspirin. And other asinine logical fallacies they use to continue causing brain injuries in newborns and toddlers and now all of us.
Posted by: Carolyn Kylesmom | September 03, 2024 at 08:17 AM
Dr M, I understand where you are coming from, being a long time Democrat myself. However, today I am filing out the forms to get my adult son the help he still needs, that I have long hoped he would not still need, and I have a different perspective as a parent.
While I fear that this decision by Bobby alienated people I have desperately hoped to change, I have encountered this resistance to our plight first hand --the most dramatic being hearings in Sacramento kin 2015 or 2016 where Bobby came to talk at the statehouse and only a hand full of Dems even bothered to attend and learn. Thousands of parents testified so that the philosophical exemption was not removed. But we were met not by curiousity or an attempt to understand but by ice cold or ridiculing stares. From the Dems we had elected. People had come in buses. We were silenced and could only say our name and location but most of us said our reason anyhow to their angry smirks. Some brought their children even in wheel chairs. Some had been at this since before the Green our Vaccines rally in I think 2006? This attempt to change Dem minds has been going on for decades. Republicans are mostly not better and Trump canceled the vaccine commission betraying us all. However if you read Profiles in Courage by JFK you will see stories of people so committed to the truth and their cause (such as abolition) that they joined forces with the other tribe to be heard and to make a statement when their tribe refused.
I hear your angst as a wonderful caring doctor but I do not know if you have the same desperation as me who thought my almost employable son might be forced to get a shot to go to community college a shot that would send him back to baby Alzheimer's. Which was what it was like when he was first injured at 14 months. We were so lucky google helped us find out we should stop his shots but now that path for newly injured is being silenced. Bobby speaking on trumps stage even though that speech was of course barely covered at least gets rally attendees a chance to hear this message. He might save some starfish on the way to what I fear will happen, an argument with Trump where he ends a up silenced again . I do not want Trump to win due to some of his troubling actions and statements but if he does Bobby will be a stabilizing force and a point of hope. I have seen zero interest in the Dems working with Bobby. If I had I would agree with you. But as far as we could see they didn't even bother to call him on the phone. They looked right through him and right through all of us just like they have for over a decade. And the irony had they just let him be in the primary or stay on the ballot or join the debates? Yes we could have possibly made a difference then. But we were silenced like my sister in law proverbially shutting the door in our face in Covid Thanksgiving despite our willingness to take tests and use thermometers.
This act by Bobby is on the DNC not Bobby. They made it happen by refusing to listen or give him a chance.
I still don't know who I will vote for. Probably Democrat but it depends. If they continue to spend all their money attacking Bobby and thus attacking me and my son and all of us, I might vote another way . And since I left CA over this issue I am now in a swing state.
Posted by: Carolyn KylesMom | September 03, 2024 at 07:59 AM
This is what you are up against - this is someone who should not be in office ever.
https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1828489827463115255
Posted by: John Stone | September 03, 2024 at 06:55 AM
I got a few sentences into Dr. Moskowitz' view's on RFK Jr. throwing in his support for Donald Trump's run for presidency, and I came across this line about RFK Jr: "declaring war not only on the Democratic Party, but on the two-party system itself, which, for all its faults, is the system we've had for generations, ..." This is a sentence coming from someone not seeing the big picture. The two party system is one that prevents innovative third parties from ever having their ideas heard. The two parties who have been in power for the last 100 + years are the Democrats and the Republicans, but mostly the Democrats. These two parties - indebted to the corporations that fund them - are mostly responsible for the chaos in our country today. Why would someone honor the two party system "for all its faults" when history has shown that they've lied to us and ruined the future of America. Then he goes on to say about Trump: "but openly advocates overthrowing our democracy by becoming a dictator if he wins it, and thus rendering future elections unnecessary." OMG! Really? This is infantile propaganda baloney, and anyone regurgitating such bile as Dr. Moskowitz has doesn't deserve my time to finish reading his article. I also question why such a narrow view of the RFK Jr. topic is posted on a website with such great and informative articles. I agree with Andrew Foss.
Posted by: Michael S. | September 03, 2024 at 04:24 AM
Jonathan Rose, that's quite a statement! Since 2014, there have been only a handful of regular commenters here. I haven't seen a post from you in a long time until today. There is no view counter or "thumbs up" for AoA. Do you have insider info on the viewership count on this blog? Does the DNC or RNC have operatives that read this blog? Are AI digital bots tracking it? Inquiring minds want to know....
Posted by: Emmaphiladelphia | September 02, 2024 at 09:51 PM
To EmmaPhilly-Some of the swing states removed his name while a few did not. He won't be on my Florida ballot(altho not a swing state). He has stated he will be on 40 state ballots that he knows right now. He also did say you can vote for him- Getting 5 % will allow special funding for a coming election.
However, regarding Trump, you cannot say that if he is jailed, the spot is empty. The Republicans could do the same undemocratic thing that Biden did and name the VP as candidate without any democratic vote. It's a crazy world and getting crazier every passing second.
Maurine Meleck
Posted by: mauine Meleck | September 02, 2024 at 06:34 PM
I wonder what % of Kennedy voters will switch their vote to trump. Does anyone have any evidence on that?
Posted by: Dr. William H. Gaunt | September 02, 2024 at 06:20 PM
Given the choice, Kennedy did the best thing available. The democrat party is not the party I once belonged to as RFKjr. has vocalized. I feel his pain. Harvard credentials may cloud one from the truth when the levers of power, money, and persuasion are in line with the hand rewarding those with acceptance and elevation if they repeat the party line. Power and position are hard to descent from when there is no reward but consistency in conscience. I feel the pain RFKjr has been through and I am so touched by his wife standing by him. I don't think Trump is an ideological saint, but he has aligned himself with Constitutional principles. This Trump the dictator is nothing, but party Pablum sloganeering for the blind in the masses who would and do accept anything the Democrat's say usually amplified by a corporately bought or at least subsidized media. I hope Dr. Moskowitz could understand his delusions and re-asses RFKjr.s truths. I appreciate Dr. Moskowitz seeing some of the vaccine dangers, but her fails to see the dangers of the present day democrat party.
Posted by: visitor IH | September 02, 2024 at 05:39 PM
If you ask, Bill, what RFK is doing to help the disabled, he is trying to eliminate all the toxins that are disabling our children. Yes, Dr. Gaunt, RFK could do great things if Trump wins the election and appoints him to an important government job, but those are two very big ifs. I feel conflicted about his endorsement of Trump. His campaign might have retained more credibility if he had built it into a permanent third party that would stand as an alternative and challenge to the two established parties. Trump has certainly been grossly irresponsible, but Biden/Harris efforts to censor the internet and pack the Supreme Court would effectively end democracy. The New York Times and the Guardian have now openly called for an end to the First Amendment: https://www.racket.news/p/liberalism-removes-its-mask?utm_source=substack&publication_id=1042&post_id=148364169&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=7zc00&triedRedirect=true
And once all that nonsense about free speech has been quashed, what's the first site they'll shut down? You're reading it right now.
Posted by: Jonathan Rose | September 02, 2024 at 05:30 PM
"But the fact that now, realizing he can't win, he has withdrawn from the race"
FACT CHECK
Three days ago, RFK Jr. admitted in an interview:
"I haven't actually terminated my campaign..."
VIDEO 1:19:20
In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReB5UHfKCG8
RFK Jr. claims he "suspended" his campaign and was only removing his name from swing state ballots. Now he is claiming that these states will not allow him to remove his name from them. Technically, he is still a viable candidate. Why did he publicly throw his support to Trump? Some have theorized that there is still a possibility Trump could be jailed before the election due to his Grand Jury conviction. Because the sentencing date is late September, no new Republican candidate could be legally put on the ballot if the RNC dumped Trump because they didn't want a jailed candidate. RFK Jr. would be positioned to become the Republican candidate. Only time will show the truth of the matter. Either way, the Globalist Uniparty will prevail.
Posted by: Emmaphiladelphia | September 02, 2024 at 04:50 PM
Hi, Kathy. I tried to be clear in my intro. I know it's frustrating to many AofAers, and so does Dr Moskowitz. Thanks. Kim
Posted by: Kim | September 02, 2024 at 02:47 PM
I am not a Trump supporter but neither am I a Harris supporter. I, for a year and a half, was totally a Kennedy supporter., which leads to my major conundrum.
Yes, Kennedy's support for health choies, vacine studies and the like are of major importance and his most important one. But don't forget he has voiced other issues that need to be changed. Ending forever wars and ending censorship-both equally important.
I, as a student of political scince and history and a continued interest and lots of reading into my old age, perhaps view all this with a different critical eye. For me, both parties have gone lower on the democraic steps than I ever thought they could go. To claim for years that the U.S. represents the finest democratic country in the world and one that others should always look to for quidance is a bit of a joke. If people knew and understood U.S. history they may cringe with full understanding. The U.S. decimated the Native Americans(still doing it) brought African Americans to America for slave, became a massive imperialistic country beginning in 1898 with Teddy Roosevelt. We still run a few dozen protectorates outside the US. We've invaded countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Vietnam etc for selfish reasons only-for more power and resources. Where is the democracy in the Democratic party.? Do people actually believe that all our lawmakers are ignorant with regaards to fake pandemics and vaccines and all the Big Pharma has to offer.? But they do believe in their money to support them. They never gave Kennedy a chance to speak for them, with them, much less than Bernie Sanders. They censored them by autocratic authority. The administration forced Russia to invade the Ukraine by promising to surround Russia with increased NATO countries. I could go on and on. Neither party suits me which is why a third or fourth party sounded so good.But being the undemocratic country we are right now, it couldn't happen. If you think this is depressing, you should read my memoir of raising my grandchild, who was vaccine injured and has autism.
Maurine Meleck
Posted by: mauine Meleck | September 02, 2024 at 01:05 PM
https://x.com/HealthRanger/status/1830387602538557910
"We are now watching one of the most hilarious political pivots in history, where Democrats, reacting to the exploding #MAHA movement (Make America Healthy Again) with RFK + Trump, are now openly siding with processed foods, junk foods, pesticides, GMOs, toxic food ingredients and of course Big Pharma's deadly vaccines. To be a Democrat in 2024, you have to now embrace and even endorse mass-production toxic food factories, the mass vaccination of pregnant women, the mass murder of unborn babies, the mass poisoning of our youth with toxic food ingredients, all while claiming to want to "save the planet" with "green" policies. It's beyond hilarious. The Democrats stand for nothing but DEATH. They are the DEATH PARTY, pretending to be the party of "joy." Exactly like the Third Reich. Years ago, I marched in the streets of Austin as part of the "March Against Monsanto." It will filled with bleeding heart liberals who believed in clean food and organics. Today, those very same people believe in toxic processed foods, toxic vaccine jabs and toxic agriculture. The real CLEAN FOODS movement is now RFK+Trump."
Posted by: Nothing left to defend | September 02, 2024 at 01:02 PM
Agreed Andrew Foss.
One question: Why does Age of Autism keep featuring this drivel from Dr. Moskowitz? It brings up my breakfast.
Posted by: Kathy Sincere | September 02, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Well maybe it is better to spell it ditto.
Ditto Andrew Foss
Posted by: Benedetta | September 02, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Dido Andrew Foss
Posted by: Benedetta | September 02, 2024 at 12:40 PM
I also agree with Andrew Foss.
Posted by: Lori | September 02, 2024 at 12:10 PM
2 party politics seems wholly inadequate in these days of media narratives, making it difficult to pierce the opacity of politics.
Biden/Harris owns the CMS mandates that ruptured US healthcare.
Even after removing the CMS mandates:
"CMS’ quality measures assessing the proportion of health care workers who are vaccinated for COVID-19 remain in place. "
Trump owns Warp Speed and lockdowns.
RFK Jr will have a fight on his hands for sure, may the Irish in him win.
Posted by: greyone | September 02, 2024 at 10:42 AM
Dr. Moskowitz identified how we can judge this move by RFK Jr. If Trump wins and Kennedy is placed in a powerful position, will he be able to achieve substantial improvements in vaccine safety and an obvious reduction in chronic diseases in children? If yes, it should be judged as a good move. If no, then not a good move. What would improvement in vaccine safety look like? Many or most vaccines would be eliminated because they have far more risk than benefit and they directly cause many of the chronic diseases in children. Any vaccines that survive would be tested by honest, objective, unbiased science to determine their risk/benefit profile. Tests should be developed to predict which children are most vulnerable to vaccine injuries. VAERS should be revamped so it would pick up the majority of vaccine injuries as opposed to the current situation where only a tiny percentage of injuries are recognized. If Trump wins, I hope he will not be as bad as Dr. M predicts.
Posted by: Dr. William H. Gaunt | September 02, 2024 at 10:23 AM
To heck with both of those candidates. They are doing very little to help those with any disability let alone "autism'. Kennedy is not an exception; he is doing very little to benefit people with disabilities. i do not care about the vaccine controversy I do care about affordable housing, healthcare, and education for those with disabilities autism or not.
Posted by: Bill | September 02, 2024 at 10:22 AM
If you're interested in why RFK Jr did what he did, they why don't you hear it in his own words. He gave an interview on the All In podcast this week. About 1:19 minute into the podcast, Bobby gave his POV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReB5UHfKCG8&t=484s. We all need to listen both sides and not just media sound bites.
Both parties have abandoned our children....
Posted by: Si Mason | September 02, 2024 at 09:58 AM
Robert Kennedy Jr efficiently and eloquently explained, in his campaign *suspension* speech, his reasons for running for president and his reasons for putting that on hold. There is no reason for Dr. M to have to speculate about RFK Jr's methods or motives. He summed it up at the end by reminding us, "We need to love our children more than we hate each other." People need to stop sipping the Kool-Aid with Red 40 or Blue 1 in it being handed out by extremists on *both* sides. Rhetoric and propaganda are not facts. Kennedy spoke in Facts. His language is the language of the future of our children.
Posted by: Lisa M Adams | September 02, 2024 at 09:08 AM
Agreed Andrew Foss!
Posted by: Marianna | September 02, 2024 at 09:03 AM
"To serve that end, he has essentially won over the nation-wide Republican Party apparatus, including its well-oiled machinery for suppress-ing eligible minority voters, to his agenda." Wow! What a bold faced lie! Sources please? Please give specific examples of the Republicans suppressing minority voters cause I have never seen proof of that. Or do you subscribe to the Democrat belief that minorities are not clever enough to get IDs? I know of none who do not have ID -do you personally? And I taught college students for many years. It seems like we know what news media the Dr. follows... I used to be impressed, now not so much. And frankly a much bigger concern is how Democrats are racing to let thousands of illegals who are not citizens vote in our elections. I applaud RFK for stepping across party lines and swallowing his pride to do the best he can for our children. I pray every day Trump wins and RFK becomes Secretary of HHS.
Posted by: MelissaD | September 02, 2024 at 08:57 AM
Oops, typo in paragraph one of my comment: respect, not reapect!
Posted by: Alison | September 02, 2024 at 08:36 AM
While I think Dr Moskowitz brings up valid issues to discuss, and I reapect his knowledge and experience, I disagree with his assumptions (and I am troubled that he MAKES assumptions).
One may certainly disagree with Bobby's decision, but Dr. Moskowitz lost me when he ascribed motive, firstly because he provided no evidence, and secondly, because that's the whole problem with what both sides have been doing to each other since the day the covid vaccines were [mistakenly , at best] approved.
Democrats: "you selfish antivaxxers don't care if you harm or even kill someone with your germs"
Republicans: "you selfish mandate pushers don't care if government harms or even kills people with their shots"
If we wanted the other side to be willing to carefully listen to Bobby's reasons for shining a spotlight on reasons to distrust vaccine safety and efficacy, then we need to carefully listen to his reasons for joining Trump.
My takeaway was that it is about anything BUT his ego: it's about the writing on the wall that another 4 years of Dems in control will cause an even greater loss of personal autonomy, especially with regards to decline vaccination, and that he sees this as a greater problem than even the potential dangers of a Trump win.
I do think that valid arguments can be made on both sides regarding Bobby's decision, and we should consider them all as objectively as possible, without pretending that we can ever know what's truly in the hearts of any of the candidates.
And then at the end of the day, we need to follow our gut.
Posted by: Alison | September 02, 2024 at 08:34 AM
I want to comment. But as you have always said, this is not the place for politics.
It seems Dr. Moskowitz' political beliefs in the Democrat Party faction and all of its prejudices against Trump far outweigh his dedication to the cause.
Posted by: Andrew Foss | September 02, 2024 at 08:05 AM