Quote (IceMage @ Aug 23 2024 02:49pm)
You've been listening to Michael Malice too long brutha.
The RFK Jr. - Trump alignment makes sense when you think about it as establishment vs anti-establishment, institutionalist vs anti-institutionalist, expertise vs opposition to expertise, etc. I mean Michael Malice is a great example... he supports dissolving the United States into separate countries.
It doesn't really matter that RFK Jr and Trump have different views on tax rates, abortion, health care systems, etc. It doesn't matter that Trump cut taxes on the rich, cut regulations, and had a hawkish foreign policy. What matters is that they both oppose and/or hate the same people, or groups of people. What matters is that they both believe a lot of kooky shit, and they want to disrupt and divide, and that appeals to a certain segment of voters who identify more with being anti-establishment than any principled ideology.
on one hand i dont disagree about the link between the two in terms of anti establishment, on the other hand i think RFK (unlike trump) has the correct target in his scope for who the problem establishment is. that being big pharma, big health, big ag, big investment, and big food. whereas trump seems to just elude to the deep state in a directionless and fact free gesture to appeal to the same group of people.
im interested in 2 answers however:
1. what are the kooky ideas rfk has specifically?
2. do those kooky ideas directly apply to his policy platform?
i can see some kook to be sure, i just dont see a worrying about of bleed into his policy platform.
edit: i do love malice, but recognize his ideas of how to fix things are entirely unrealistic. no shocker coming from a literal anarchist.
This post was edited by thesnipa on Aug 23 2024 01:55pm