Isn't It Amazing?

We, the richest nation on the face of the earth, have homeless people, including veterans, living in cardboard boxes, or pushing shopping carts filled with their earthly belongings from one place to another. 

We have children who go hungry every day.

We have people who die of curable diseases because they can't afford health care. 

Or go bankrupt trying to pay for what health care they have.

We have aging infrastructure all across the nation.

We have lead and other dangerous chemicals in our air and water 

We have generations of children stuck in substandard schools, understaffed, without the basic essentials that all schools need to function.

We have people who should be in mental institutions roaming our city streets. (To be fair, some are in Congress, too)

We have easy access to guns, including military style hardware, for practically anyone.

We have school shootings on such a regular basis that they hardly attract attention, let alone shock, anymore. 

And we are constantly told that there is not enough money to solve these problems.

But somehow there is always enough money to start another war.

Always. 

Billions, trillions even, spent on killing.

Again and again and again. 

An Insult To His Father's Memory

Robert Kennedy was a great man. He worked tirelessly for both economic, and racial, equality. Perhaps most importantly, he could see the disaster that was Vietnam long before most of Washington

John Kennedy was a great man. Every major Civil Rights bill of the early 60's was begun while he was President. He, unlike J.Edgar Hoover, did not demonize Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcom X. He reached out to the Russians to try and create some workable peace, ignoring all the saber rattling coming from the right. He also reached out to Castro, hoping to build a viable relationship with Cuba. He had plans to get us out of Vietnam by 1965--see NSAM 263 -which, of course, was thrown out by LBJ, almost immediately following that day in Dallas.

Edward Kennedy was a great Senator. Born into wealth and privilege, and haunted by the deaths of his brothers, he worked tirelessly for working class people.

Did they all have flaws? Of course they did. Did they all love this country and want the best for its people? There is no doubt they did. 

It must be difficult to be part of a family, indeed the namesake of one of them, that is held in high esteem and that set high standards. And is cursed with such tragedy.

Which brings us to RFK Jr. 

To be fair, the generations that immediately follow greatness are more often than not, not great.

But Jesus Fucking Christ, Junior! 

Lil Bobby shits on the memory of his father and his uncles every goddamn day. 

And his pigheaded stupidity about vaccines, nutrition, and health care in general will get many people killed and many more deathly ill. 

(By the way, that brain worm he says he had died of malnutrition.)