I am trying to resist the tidal wave of programming pushed at me about Secretary Kennedy. I hear friends and family parroting anti-everything talking points that gloss over reality and try to dehumanize and derail every word he says. Instead, I pause and actually listen. I want context, not spin.
Please don’t get triggered. I’m just trying to explain what I feel when I hear the Secretary announce this and that. It’s not as black and white as the talking heads want you to believe.
We’ve never experienced someone in this kind of position with his level of passion combined with his level of carte blanche authority. I don’t think he’s trying to get rich, and people saying he is stupid are clearly pawns of backroom propaganda.
If anti-vax, anti-science, or undermining the medical establishment are the first things you hear when his name comes up, you may need to ask yourself whether you’ve absorbed programming you didn’t realize.
Honestly, I think he’s in the position of his life and seems imbued with a level of urgency that might actually result in change. He really seems to be on the side of the American public and unpartisan in that sense. It’s not something we’ve experienced much of, so I understand why people are suspicious to a degree.
These propaganda machines make no sense to me, and neither does the susceptibility of people drinking it all up. They push vapid claims, unredeemable vitriol, and out-of-context clips to insinuate manufactured nonsense for someone who hasn’t earned that treatment.
As for me, I’m cautiously optimistic that the status quo, which we can all agree is problematic in so many ways, might finally be at risk. If Kennedy is wrong, whatever he accomplishes can be undone. And frankly, once he is out of office, the powers against him will likely undo everything he manages to accomplish anyway. Sigh.