Biden is greater threat to democracy
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Give me Liberty
Rodger Williamson
In a recent 35-minute interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. detailed his criticisms of his 2024 race opponents, former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. I share excerpts from this interview to point out some of the accusations being leveled against President Biden.
Mr. Kennedy stated that “you have both sides using scare tactics. Republicans say that if Joe Biden wins, it’s going to be the end of the republic. Democrats say that if Donald Trump wins, it’s going to be the end of democracy. And I don’t think either of them are actually going to destroy democracy. We have institutions in this country that are enduring. And if you look at both those candidates, they’re very different in their temperament. They have different ideology; the rhetoric on the issues where they actually depart from each other is a very narrow band of issues, and it’s a culture war, issues like abortion, guns, the border. They are all important issues, but they’re not existential issues. … Neither has the capacity to address the biggest issue, being the debt. We now have $34 trillion in debt. The service on that debt is more than our military spending. Within five years, $0.50 out of every dollar collected in taxes are going to go to servicing just the debt, which was created by President Trump and President Biden together in just four years each. They ran up more spending than all the previous presidents going back to George Washington up to the corona epidemic. … And it’s getting worse and worse. You’ve never heard President Trump talk about it. Never heard President Biden [talk about it]. The polarization in our country, again existential, all of these issues – neither of them has the capacity to deal with these. And all of those issues are created by a system of corporate culture. This corrupt merger between corporate power that’s absolutely subverted and undermined our democracy. And neither President Trump or President Biden has the capacity to address it because they’re part of that system. They’re both being financed by BlackRock and State Street and Vanguard, the military contractors, the pharmaceutical industries, and that system just spits out bad policies and the illusion that if you differ on culture war issues, and major radically different real things that we need to do to save our country, it can’t do them. And if you vote for President Trump, they both had their chance. You’re just going to get more of the same. If somebody actually wants change, one who will actually alter those issues, they’re going to vote for me.”
After answering a couple more questions, Mr. Kennedy went on stating, “I make the argument that President Biden is a much worse threat to democracy. And the reason for that is President Biden is the first candidate and the first president in history [who] has used the federal agencies to censor political speech or censor his opponent. You know, I can say that because I just won a case, a federal court of appeals, now before the Supreme Court. It shows that he started censoring me, 37 hours after he took the oath of office. No president in the country has ever done that. The greatest threat to democracy is not somebody who questions election returns, but a president united to use the power of his office to force social media companies Facebook, Instagram, Twitter to open a portal and give an access portal to the FBI, CIA, the IRS, the sites, the NIH, that censor his political critics, as implied for the first president in history to use the secrets of his power over the Secret Service that deny Secret Service protection to one of his political opponents. For a political reason, weaponizing a federal agency. Those are really critical threats.”
CNN’s Erin Burnett interjected that “of course, Trump tried to overturn a free and fair election. …How is that not a threat to democracy?” To which Kennedy replied, “Well, I think that is a threat to democracy himself. If we’re trying to overthrow the election, clearly a threat to democracy. But the question was, who is a worse threat to democracy? And I can argue that President Biden is, because the First Amendment is the most important. Adams, Hamilton and Madison said we put the guarantee of freedom of expression in the First Amendment because all of our other constitutional rights depend on it. If you have a government that can silence its opponent, it has a license for any atrocity. We’ve never had a president in history who has ever tried to censor political opponents. What president has weaponized?”
The full interview is available on YouTube. I’m still not going to vote for Trump, but take heart that I will not vote for Biden either. I like RFK Jr. better than either, but will vote for liberty and freedom by voting Libertarian this November.