When I was a teenager in the mid-1970s, I considered myself to be an environmentalist. I wanted to protect natural habitats and wildlife because I loved them and I was interested in them. Those positive feelings had been inspired by my own experiences with nature and animals, as well as by Marlin Perkins’ Wild Kingdom and other animal television shows. Plus, there were still the lingering vibes of the nature and ecology movement from the ‘60s and early ‘70s. My family used to have one of those green “e” (for ecology) flag stickers on our house’s front window. If you’re around my age (63) or older, you probably remember that stylized e symbol.

But when is the last time you even heard the word “ecology”? That word implies an understanding and appreciation of the ways in which nature works—the ways in which wildlife interact with one another and their natural habitats and the ways in which humans interact with nature. Those were the kinds of things that I was interested in—just because I found them to be fascinating topics. And I remain interested in, and loving of, wildlife and nature today.

Unfortunately, somewhere along the line, people stopped talking about ecology, wildlife, and nature in ways that expressed love and genuine interest. Nowadays, kids will tell you that all the polar bears are going to drown and die because of global warming, but they probably can’t tell you anything about what polar bears eat, where they live, or how they behave. There seems to be none of the curiosity and joyful fascination I had as a kid about the basic scientific and zoological facts of the natural world. There is only the cramming of ever more doom-and-gloom into the little skulls full of mush (to borrow a phrase from Rush).

The joyful spiritual aspects of environmentalism have been totally replaced by dark fear-mongering authoritarianism. The nature-loving ecology/environmental movement of the ‘60s and ‘70s has been replaced by the joyless, depressing climate change cult of today. The flower child hippies have transformed into computerized regulatory bureaucrats and ESG enforcers. People are not encouraged or persuaded to want to protect nature out of love and joy. Instead, they are bludgeoned to comply with authorities’ strict directives and dark propaganda designed to provoke fears of climate armageddon. And this modern-day propaganda tends to self-centeredly focus on how the impending end times will impact human civilization, with little talk about the natural world of plants and animals and ecology.

This change in the environmental discussion caused me to lose my connection with the discussion. I disconnected myself from it. I don’t want to be constantly bombarding with climate change, net zero by 2050, no more than 1.5°C, clean green obscene bullshit propaganda. I ain’t interested. It’s exaggerated BS, it’s depressing, it’s hateful, it’s politically motivated crap. It’s not designed to protect nature or “save the planet.” It’s designed to grow the power and profits of globalist elitist authoritarians and to cement their absolute control over our lives. I’m not supporting that crap. If that’s what they call being an environmentalist today, it ain’t me, babe.

Love, not fear

Robert F. Kennedy Jr and Charles Eisenstein had a refreshingly insightful discussion about these issues on a May 16 podcast. I urge you to listen to it. It reminded me of why I still love and want to conserve the beautiful natural world.

In the podcast, Kennedy gives his personal perspective on environmentalism—a perspective that seems to be based on his strong spiritual beliefs and religious faith. He values the preservation of species and natural habitats out of the love that he developed for nature during his youth. He characterizes the loss of any species or animal or plant as a diminishment of God’s greatness and God’s creation—and why would a loving person want to diminish God’s work in that way?

I was struck by that idea, which I had never thought of before in that way. And I find this beautiful concept to be a much more attractive, compelling, and honest argument for protecting the natural environment than the self-righteous, fundamentalist, fire-and-brimstone lectures about civilizational and planetary destruction that we usually hear from public figures.

Although Kennedy says that he believes in the importance of addressing climate change (something that I remain very skeptical about), he acknowledges that climate change has become an extremely divisive issue that believers cannot force on others and that his own views on it have relied on information that he has heard from various “experts.” His lack of expertise in climate science, he notes, contrasts with his knowledge about air and water pollution and drugs and vaccines—subjects on which he has educated himself in great scientific detail and which he has expertly litigated for decades as a successful environmental lawyer.

Kennedy and Eisenstein bemoan the current excessive, obsessive focus on carbon dioxide among environmentalists, at the expense of other, more tangible threats to the environment. They explored that particular issue in depth in a podcast on May 2, 2022.

Now, that’s the kind of independent, clear-thinking, anti-establishment, nonauthoritarian environmentalism that I can support—and that I can vote for. That’s the kind of environmentalism I believed in the ‘70s.

Podcasts and interviews

As I have watched many of Kennedy’s interviews over the past month—since he launched his campaign for the presidency with an amazing almost-two-hour speech on April 19, I have found many other reasons to strongly support his candidacy. I especially like his overall theme of “the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening now to impose a new kind of corporate feudalism in our country.” He has repeatedly condemned the spread of authoritarianism and globalism, along with the lack of genuine free market capitalism in the United States. What other Democrat talks like that these days? A few Republicans mention those issues, but they rarely get into the kind of detail and depth that Kennedy easily and knowledgably discusses.

For example, Kennedy can discuss the complexities of the Ukraine war in detail, including the provocation of the war by the United States with its meddling in Ukraine over the past several years, the prolongation of the war to benefit the American military-industrial complex, and the insidious behind-the-scenes influence of the neocon/neolib globalists in the conflict. It’s almost unprecedented to see an American political candidate speak intelligently about such complex not-allowed-to-talk-about issues! I’ve always liked Trump, but his simplistic statements about Ukraine (Putin never would have done that if I were president, I just want people to stop dying) pale in comparison with Kennedy’s obvious depth of understanding.

By the way, there are many Kennedy podcasts posted on Spotify, dating back to February 2, 2021, so he was expressing his “controversial” views on issues for quite a while before his presidential announcement. Throughout this essay, I am directing your attention to certain podcasts by giving the dates of the shows. You can then scroll through the list of shows to find them, if you care to. Or, just scan through the list on your own and check out the titles that sound interesting to you. Two of the podcasts in which Kennedy discusses the war in Ukraine are dated May 10, 2023 and May 5, 2023.

Depth of understanding is important to have for a president, because that will provide the backbone he needs to prevent himself from getting rolled by the Deep State bastards. Trump lacks the depth and intellectualism of Kennedy. That’s why I have no confidence that he would be able to stand up to the neocon warmongers regarding Ukraine. After all, when he was president, he sent weapons to Ukraine at the urging of the warmongers around him. Trump’s good instincts were not and are not enough. He got rolled then and he would get rolled again. Kennedy’s depth of understanding would allow him to stand strong, fight back, and prevail against the warmongers.

The worst matter on which Trump got rolled by the permanent swampy insider class was COVID. The lockdown, the masks, the vaccine push, and all the other fascist Fauci-Birx nonsense. Kennedy literally wrote the book on Fauci (June 19, 2021 podcast) and the movie (January 16, 2023 podcast), and he would never allow that kind of crooked lying unconstitutional shit to happen in his administration.

Kennedy is probably best known for being “anti-vaccine” and a “vaccine skeptic.” Those are derogatory put-downs used to dismiss him, because he has had the courage to speak out against the corrupt collusion between government and pharmaceutical companies in pushing unsafe and ineffective drugs and vaccines—with the COVID jabs being the most recent and prominent example (August 3, 2022; March 17, 2022). He has also suggested that his own neurological speech problem (spasmodic dysphonia) may have originated as an adverse reaction to a drug.

The COVID issue really hits home for me, because I have a science background, I knew that the masks were useless and that vaccines were potentially dangerous—and I lost a job as a result of my refusal to comply with Biden’s damn vaccine mandate. So, I will champion anyone who speaks out against that government-corporate wickedness. America has become a frightened hypochondriac nation that is addicted to pharmaceutical products, with everyone stuck in some form of unnatural drug-induced trance. Having a president who is knowledgeable and articulate about these issues could be extremely educational and beneficial for the American public. And it would be wonderful to see the lies of the medical establishment (October 31, 2022) and pharmaceutical companies (March 18, 2022) exposed by a U.S. president.

It should not surprise anyone that government and corporations have colluded to force harmful drugs and vaccines on the public, considering that they have been colluding for decades to put disease-causing toxic chemicals in our environment (June 10, 2021), food (March 9, 2022), and various consumer products (May 19, 2022). Kennedy built his legal career on fighting such polluters and merchants of disease, and that makes him uniquely qualified to battle them from the bully pulpit. He has a record of legal accomplishments protecting health and the environment that should win praise from any real environmentalist—but not the phony, self-proclaimed, carbon-obsessed “environmentalists” of today.

Yet another modern-day American problem with which Kennedy is uniquely poised to battle is the growing attack on free speech and the spreading wave of Big Tech censorship (May 16, 2022). The elite know-it-alls who control media platforms have been trying to shut him up and discredit him for years regarding his truth-telling on corrupt, profiteering pharmaceutical and chemical companies. Referring to the lengthy speech he was giving to announce his presidential candidacy, Kennedy said, “This is what happens when you censor somebody for 18 years. I got a lot to talk about. They shouldn’t have shut me up for that long because now I’m really going to let loose on them for the next 18 months.”

Kennedy has also said that his first action as president would be to pardon Julian Assange (March 17, 2023), and he wrote on Twitter, “Instead of championing free speech, the U.S. actively persecutes journalists and whistleblowers. I’ll pardon brave truth-tellers like Julian Assange and investigate the corruption and crimes they exposed. This isn’t the Soviet Union. The America I love doesn’t imprison dissidents.”

Besides being condemned by the conformist media propagandist sheep as a vaccine skeptic, Kennedy is also often put down as a “conspiracy theorist.” That’s because of his bold outspokenness in exposing the many government-promoted lies that are ingrained in our culture and society, including government lies about the killings of his uncle (December 9, 2021) and father and other CIA deceptions (December 4, 2022).

For speaking out about those lies, the sheep call him a nut. But anyone who keeps on believing the constant stream of government bullshit has to be the real nut. What the hell does it take to wake some people up? Perhaps it will take the never-before-heard truth coming out of a White House with a new Kennedy as president.

Not normal times

Kennedy has stated that he would never be running for president if these were “normal times,” and that he was prompted to run because these are not normal times. He has expressed his alarm at the rise of globalist authoritarianism and at the corruption of his Democrat Party, particularly in regard to COVID, the Ukraine war, and censorship. And, again, he stresses the overall theme of government-corporate collusion in this authoritarian advance. In listening to his discussion of these issues in his many podcasts and interviews, it is clear to me that he is much more anti-establishment than Trump, as well as far more articulate about his reasons for being anti-establishment. That is why I am supporting Kennedy over Trump for the 2024 presidential election.

Most talking heads say that Kennedy has no chance to win. As Kennedy himself has noted, he, like his dad in 1968, is running against a powerful Democrat establishment and war machine. His dad was also initially brushed off as having no chance. But RFK Sr’s victory in the California primary showed that he might very well win. Then right after that primary victory, he was killed. That happened five years after his brother John, who also opposed the American war machine, was killed.

A lot of American hope was killed with the assassinations of John and Robert. Much more hope has been killed since. But Robert’s son is a living connection to those more hopeful times of the ‘60s. Can that seemingly dead hope be brought back to life via this blood connection?

Are there enough thinking, caring, knowledgeable Americans left to support the messenger of such hope? Can Kennedy break through the media wall of censorship and propaganda to even get his message widely heard? Does America have enough virtue, goodness, and self-respect left to listen to the message and to be moved to action?

In all honesty, my gut tells me “no.” There is no way that the thoroughly decadent America of 2023-24 will support an RFK today the way that many Americans supported an RFK in 1968.

The country is now just too damn lost, corrupt, sick, and stupid. But I don’t care. I am supporting him anyway. My hope for RFK Jr is allowing me to cling onto some small remnant of hope for a nation that I had totally given up on—and for an environmental cause that I had abandoned.

Interesting interview

Finally, I suggest that you watch an especially interesting 50-minute interview of Kennedy handling some pretty tough questions from crazy-ass leftie Krystal Ball and her friend Saagar on Ukraine, vaccines, climate change, Biden, Trump, and other things. I think his answers show why many folks on the right are finding him attractive, including on environmental issues and climate change.