Source: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Senior campaign advisor Charles Eisenstein expands on why he believes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should be the next president. RFK Jr., Eisenstein says, has the honesty and humility required to represent a massive, growing popular movement of Americans who want trustworthy leaders and solutions from outside the two-party system.
TRANSCRIPT (Charles Eisenstein):
If you had asked me a year ago if I would be involved in a political campaign, I would have thought you were crazy, because I had pretty much given up on politics and on any change happening from within the electoral system. But when I met Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a dormant hope that I didn't even know I had was awakened. And I thought, “Yeah, maybe, actually the system can change through the electoral process.”
You know it's irrational. It is irrational. Why is it that hope is awakened again? Maybe it's because the conditions of our country and our planet have deteriorated to the point where a lot of people are so alienated that they are no longer mesmerized by the dominant narratives that keep us all in place. And through the cracks in that narrative, hope can arise again.
And that hope is not that somebody is going to come and fix it. That's not what this campaign is about. This is not about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. coming to fix our country, and we just elect him, and the job is done.
He is the face of a massive popular movement of a lot of people who, like me, are experiencing a new awakening of hope – again. Despite the betrayals — piercing the cynicism.
And I think one thing that speaks to me most deeply about the candidate is his authenticity. He's not saying stuff because that is what the voters want to hear. Everything he says, he means it. And at bottom, there's nothing else that is going to change the direction of our country other than honesty. If there's no honesty, there's no trust.
And even when he's saying sometimes, “Yeah, I don't know what to do about this problem,” like, that's really refreshing. I've been waiting my whole life for a politician who's willing to admit that he doesn't have all of the answers, who's willing to admit that there are valid moral positions on both sides of an issue, who's willing to look for solutions that are outside the existing opinion camps.
The possibility is here now to make this a real democracy again.
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