RFK Jnr, don't trust him but maybe he's the only plunger in the American toilet

He's converting some unfairly labelled madhatter subjects into serious conversation.

I’m appreciative of Karl Sanchez’s intelligent posts. I made a comment on his page which I replicate, with mild adjustment. It’s evidence of the journey of my opinion, my reactionary poop trail through American politics in 2023 (and with expection of more splatter than flushing in 2024).

"I remember seeing an elaborate and complicated automatic washing machine for automobiles that did a beautiful job of washing them. But it could do only that, and everything else that got into its clutches was treated as if it were an automobile to be washed. I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." - from Abraham Maslow's ‘The Psychology of Science’.

RFK Jnr is likeable but I don't trust him (nor other candidates). His charm possibly comes from him being comfortable with power, and charm is dangerous hypnotism.

It makes no sense for his potential to be the result of dynasty whilst he positions himself against the elite, even if he seems to think that’s defined as only the Deep State and their politicians.

Ironically, it's his family's royalty history that makes him a superior version of Vivek Ramaswamy who, as both an Indian and a Hindi, will never be accepted by American racism. Ramaswamy may be the smartest of all the candidates, but his constant ability to quickly respond with popular words makes me think that's marketing rather than belief, and that his only angle is to get a position of power in a Trump administration, or a favourable business outcome.

If Trump were removed from the field, Chris Christie would win more Republicans over. However, more Republicans would then vote for RFK Jnr. Even if Trump continues running, RFK Jnr would be in a tough position as his perceived association with conservatism would cost him Democrat support. He's interesting to folks now, but, in the long run, they're creatures of habit (and bias).

It's an interesting race that cannot be called. A lot of shit will happen in the next year, from Ukraine and natural disasters to election dirt and a candidate possibly dying. And I've no idea what role the CIA and FBI will play.

It's too convenient, as some apologists do, to dismiss RFK Jnr’s excessive support for Israel as only a strategic move to get power. Supporting the existence of Israel is realistic and moral, but being in with the Zionist lobby is emblemic of maintaining the current fucked-up status quo of paid-for Power versus the People, and ‘Christian’ Americans in favour of dead or imprisoned Palestinian children.

Although I agree with RFK Jnr on a bunch of conspiracies, he goes too far with some, relying on his oratory skills to sound convincing rather than be factually convincing.

Nevertheless, I consider him to be the most useful tool at hand because he's saying a lot of things that need to be said in order to convert unfairly labelled madhatter subjects into serious conversation. He’s needed for constipation in the USA, for it is only through laxative that empires find their knees.

That this South African has an opinion surely means the USA remains the most successful narcissist saying "Look at me."

PS: In keeping with the metaphor, I should have, for example, parodied with: “When you don’t have a plunger, you don’t want everything to look like a toilet.” But I decided to give credit to the original deep thinkers.