By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is the son of Bobby Kennedy and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, this week watched his former political party nominate a President without a single primary vote or without publishing her policy.
He had attempted to run in that primary, but claims to have been frozen out by the party.
The Democratic National Convention arrived a month after Kennedy watched his former political party — a party in which both his father, uncle and other Kennedy family members had served — oust a sitting president of the United States, one they elected.
“In an honest system, I believe that I would have won the election,” Kennedy said Friday in a press conference. “The kind of system my uncle and father thrived in — a system with open debates, fair primaries and with truly independent media untainted by government propaganda.”
On Friday, a day following the closure of the Democratic National Convention, Kennedy suspended his campaign and endorsed Republican Donald J. Trump for President. He offered a rounding rebuke of the Democratic Party.
Kennedy recalled being six years old when he attended his first DNC in 1960, and beginning his candidacy as a Democrat.
“Back then, Democrats were the champions of the [U.S.] constitution, of civil rights, against authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, against imperialism, and unjust wars,” Kennedy said. “We were the party of labor and the working class. The Democrats were the party of transparency. Our party was the bulwark against big corporate interests and money and power. True to its name, it was the party of democracy.”
About 10 months ago, Kennedy left the Democratic Party and on Friday offered more reasons a member of the most notable family in the party’s history not named Jefferson or Roosevelt would leave.
“I had left because it had departed so dramatically from the core values I grew up with,” Kennedy said. “It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Ag and big money.”
So, he ran as an independent, and had the best chance to compete since the 1992 campaign of H. Ross Perot, the little man with big ideas from Texas.
“The mainstream of American politics and journalism derided my decision,” Kennedy said, and he claims they worked together to ensure his defeat.
He compares the exposure the media gave Perot in 1992. Kennedy claims that same legacy national media gave him two interviews, when he never denied an interview request. He was on more than that with Fox’s Sean Hannity.
Added Kennedy: “I’m sorry to say that while democracy may still be alive at the grassroots, it has become little more than a slogan. In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set itself toward dismantling it.”
He called the primary election this winter and spring “a sham” which was “rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden.”
And the free press did nothing, he says, because they “have made themselves government mouthpieces and stenographers.”
As he tuned into the DNC this week in Chicago, on just the opening night, Kennedy recalls the utterance of Trump’s name 147 times.
“Who needs a policy when you have Trump to hate,” he said.
He cites three causes for his departure from the party of Joseph Kennedy: free speech, war in Ukraine, and the war on children.
“The war in Ukraine has been a disaster for our country as well. We have squandered nearly $200 billion already,” Kennedy said. “President Trump says he will open communication with President Putin and end the war with Ukraine overnight. This alone would justify my support for his campaign.”
See the entirety of Kennedy’s comments HERE.