Joke all you want about Bobby Kennedy, the guy is plenty capable of serving as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
He’s a brilliant lawyer and a more savvy litigator than 90% of attorneys in this country. He’s taken on many major corporations in class action lawsuits, and won, so he knows a thing or two about playing chess with the big boys.
Even people who hate Donald Trump voted for him because he teamed up with Kennedy, who promised to shake things up. We’ll see what happens ,but there was zero chance a Kamala Harris administration was going to change a thing. The outsider with a raspy voice and big brain is a breath of fresh air no matter how many stories come out about dead bears and brain worms.
The American people are desperate for sincerity in our leaders, and Kennedy comes across as sincere. Whether he walks the walk remains to be seen, but nobody else in DC even comes close.
We all know that corporations, not people, are in charge. We also know that corporations will do very bad things for profit. So, when Kennedy says that companies add dangerous chemicals to food to increase profits, we believe him. And when nobody in DC does anything to help, we look elsewhere for leadership.
We didn’t vote for “anyone but Trump” or “anyone but Biden,” we voted for “anyone who isn’t part of the DC machine.” Bobby Kennedy fits the bill.
Kennedy isn’t new to public health. He became interested decades ago when he began cleaning up our rivers and getting mercury out of fish. Mothers of babies who got sick after being vaccinated with shots containing mercury read about Kennedy’s work and begged him to help. Kennedy saw the connection and got involved in the fight for vaccine safety. Nobody paid much attention, until he decided to run for president. Then he became a “nutty anti-vaxxer”. It was an odd turn of events for a guy who was getting awards for getting mercury out of fish. If mercury is unsafe in a six-pound fish, then it’s unsafe in a six-pound baby.
Countless studies show that heavy metals, like lead and mercury, are unsafe at any levels in the human body. Even the inserts inside vaccines warn parents that vaccines have more than fifty side effects, such as encephalitis and death. Kennedy wants to make vaccines safer, and do more research to determine why they have so many side effects. That does not make him a nut.
If the only thing Kennedy does over the next four years is figure out why some people are more vulnerable to vaccine problems than others, then his time will have been well spent. Nobody thinks all vaccines are always dangerous for all people, but many believe that some vaccines are sometimes dangerous for some people. This is why the federal government set up a vaccine injury compensation fund. Kennedy wants to find out who the vulnerable people are, because the only other option is to let people get sick and die.
Kennedy is hardly the first one to sound the alarm about vaccines. When my dad was born, his doctor told my grandmother never to let him be vaccinated because he had a skin condition and had been exposed to tuberculosis. When he went to school in the 1940s and 50s, he always brought a doctor’s note explaining that he was not to be vaccinated. Nobody called my grandmother names or said the doctor was an anti-vaxxer.
Years later when Dad joined the military, he was in line for a health screening when the doctor asked why he wasn’t vaccinated. Dad explained but the doctor didn’t care. He jabbed him with a bunch of vaccines and in short order, Dad was unable to wear the wool uniforms or participate in many activities. He was devastated when they told him he had to be honorably discharged because of what the vaccines had done to his health.
Kennedy has his eye on two things: the health of the American people and the corruption in DC that has deprived the American people of good health. I don’t care how many dead bears he left in Central Park. If he fixes these two things he could easily become president in 2028.
