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The *second* major conspirituality influencer that we've covered has now declared a primary challenge to Biden.
RFK Jr's conspirituality runs parallel to that of Marianne Williamson (the subject of our main feed episode today). /1
RFK Jr's conspirituality runs parallel to that of Marianne Williamson (the subject of our main feed episode today). /1
MW leans with full devotion into New Age Jesus as the source of her political teleology, her battle against dark psychic forces, and her belief that meditation can help ward off COVID. /2
RFK Jr. is more opportunistic, willing to marshal apocalyptic evangelicalism and ally with the Nation of Islam to electrify his paranoid pseudoscience. /3
Both code themselves as left-of-centre populists fighting government and corporate corruption and foreign policy hawks. So on the level of topline messaging they appear to move in a sane direction. But the fuel of that movement is hot garbage. /4
Williamson made her fortune teaching a pseudoscripture that encourages magical thinking and spiritual bypassing. #acim has served as the scriptural touchstone for New Age literature for decades, melting the brains of countless erstwhile progressives. /5
RFK Jr. has made a fortune in the antivax propaganda business. In 2020 he paid himself 345K as the chairman of Children's Health Defense, and his book-length slander of Anthony Fauci is expected to gross as much as 3.8M. /6
One platform issue makes RFK Jr a far worse Democratic spoiler than MW could ever be. While she advocates for slavery reparations and M4A, RFK Jr. cynically recruits Black influencers to his anti public health crusade by inappropriately exploiting tragedies like Tuskegee... /7
...while saying nothing about the universal health care that his uncle argued for in 1962 and that would be enshrined by the Black Panthers—who ran free community vaccine clinics—as a platform policy. We'll run RFK Jr's bullshit down in the main feed soon. /end
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