• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    I thought this was common knowledge months ago. Didn’t Fox news even discover this shorty after they started pushing RFK Jr? I never understood why right wing media kept the RKF Jr train going after that was known.

    • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      I thought this was common knowledge months ago.

      It was, but we don’t stop election polling just because one poll was already conducted months ago.

    • Fisk400@feddit.nu
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      I think the right is trying to push him back into the left as a Biden alternative now that Biden is a lot more unpopular than the last time they tried.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        You’re supporting my point about conservatives loving a name (and thinking liberals do too), instead of an ideology. Putting his batshit craziness aside for a moment, when I look at RFK Jrs policy positions, he’s not a liberal. Why do conservatives think liberals would vote for a conservative?

        His policies appear to be:

        • anti climate change initiatives
        • anti vaccination (even for things like measles!)
        • believes abortion is a tragedy, but said he’d allow it
        • thinks US support of Ukraine is a mistake, and thinks diplomacy would solve it instead (Has he not read the Budapest Memorandum?)
        • backs Texas’s actions at the southern border
        • wants to make government backed 3% mortgages, but doesn’t talk about where the money would come from or where all the new housing would either

        source

        Its crazy to think that comparing to RFK Jr, George W Bush is more liberal.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          No. But they’re hardly the only people in America worth grifting.

          Lots of smug Radical Centrists who can get suckered in with a No Labels party.

          • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            I had to look up what a “Radical Centrist” was.

            According to Wikipedia:

            “The radical in the term refers to a willingness on the part of most radical centrists to call for fundamental reform of institutions.[1] The centrism refers to a belief that genuine solutions require realism and pragmatism, not just idealism and emotion.[2]”

            I guess I would fit that definition, but nothing about RFK Jr is realistic or pragmatic. C’mon, him being anti-vax, and anti climate change fixes? What about that is realistic or pragmatic?