Your basic point about the state of US society's treatment of the poor is beyond dispute. Your adoration of Bobby Kennedy I will ascribe to your youth at the time it was acquired. Bobby was as complete a political opportunist as any American political figure you can name. Don't forget he started out in the service of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and Joe McCarthy and as total an anti- Communist (socialist) as you can imagine. His adoption of concern for the poor was in the service of finding a platform to challenge Lyndon Johnson and later Hubert Humphrey for the presidential nomination and his resistance to the Vietnam War followed on his supporting his brother's accelerating the staffing of "advisors" begun by Eisenhower. He was also at his brother's shoulder in promotion of the Bay of Pigs and the surveillance and concern of Martin Luther King and King's "radicalism" threatening southern support for the Kennedy administration.
I subscribed so I could feel free to say all of that.
I once again urge you to get behind the welfare state and abandon socialism which is overwhelmingly rejected by the voters in this country. It is even more toxic than "defund the police", one of the most misguided political slogans of all time.
Your basic point about the state of US society's treatment of the poor is beyond dispute. Your adoration of Bobby Kennedy I will ascribe to your youth at the time it was acquired. Bobby was as complete a political opportunist as any American political figure you can name. Don't forget he started out in the service of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and Joe McCarthy and as total an anti- Communist (socialist) as you can imagine. His adoption of concern for the poor was in the service of finding a platform to challenge Lyndon Johnson and later Hubert Humphrey for the presidential nomination and his resistance to the Vietnam War followed on his supporting his brother's accelerating the staffing of "advisors" begun by Eisenhower. He was also at his brother's shoulder in promotion of the Bay of Pigs and the surveillance and concern of Martin Luther King and King's "radicalism" threatening southern support for the Kennedy administration.
I subscribed so I could feel free to say all of that.
I once again urge you to get behind the welfare state and abandon socialism which is overwhelmingly rejected by the voters in this country. It is even more toxic than "defund the police", one of the most misguided political slogans of all time.
Other than that, my Monday has been OK.
Jack