As an independent voter who often voted Democrat, I am personally thrilled to see this bipartisan crossover. You would think my liberal friends would also be elated to have a lifelong Democrat like RFKJr (someone they hailed as a hero for several decades) overseeing and pushing for these changes. Unfortunately, their amygdalas cannot allow them to see past blue or red. It's uncanny.
Thank you for a fine article. What should be made clear is that a great deal of this divisiveness is rooted in what is being taught to our children in K-12 education.
Children should be taught HOW to think, specifically how to be Critical Thinkers. NONE of that is being done in US K-12 public schools. Worse, children are actually being trained to be the opposite of Critical Thinkers: to be conformists.
US children are not only taught WHAT to think, but the what is steeped in progressive ideology.
About 4 million students graduate from US high schools every year. Most of them soon become voting citizens.
You figure out what will happen when 3± million voters who have been propagandized with progressive ideology, and who are trained to be lemmings, are added EVERY YEAR.
Now tell me why no major US Conservative organization is doing anything meaningful about this? In other words we have effectively abandoned what is taught to our children (the curriculum) to the Left. I seem to be one of a handful of people fighting this (e.g., see my substack <https://criticallythinking.substack.com/p/superior-videos-about-critical-thinking>.)
The tsunami is in sight, so we need to wake up and stop this travesty.
Health isn't political. The government should have *nothing* to do with health. But since the tyrants have forced illness upon us and stolen our money in the name of health, well... it does creep into the political world.
RFK did run for President so he is tainted a bit with politics.
But yes, health should have nothing to do with politics.
This is so sadly true. The vaccine issue along with intense dislike and distrust of President Trump seen to lie at the root of why many progressive liberals cannot endorse the positive progress being made on health. Along with corporate influencing against Mr Kennedy.
What is amusing is the conservatives accuse RFK of being liberal, while the liberals accuse RFK of being tainted by being part of the Trump administration. The collective public can't make up their minds!
Thank you for putting into words the feeling that I do believe most people are align with. There are always those who seem to oppose, but those who do are not looking for their health to expand based on what MAHA is trying to do.
While one cannot help but agree with the spirit of Ms. Hunt's assertion, reality unfortunately, says otherwise.
For nearly a century the chiropractic profession has been aware that the opposite of Ms. Hunt's desire for rationality and fairness is the rule . To this day, despite scads of clinical evidence, doctors of chiropractic cannot advertise that chiropractic care can help with a variety of conditions that the government decrees may only be handled with pharmaceuticals.
Once the government decided to insert itself, via the Flexner report over a century ago, into the process of determining what does and does not qualify as "health care", or to what extent free American citizens might use their paid for insurance benefits to cover the health care services they choose to use for themselves and their families, the politicization of MAHA was baked into the cake.
Indeed, it was quite instructive, from a psychological viewpoint, to observe leftist doctors of chiropractic dissolve into puddles of cognitive dissonance as they attempted to balance their loyalty to the democrat party of 2024 with the reality of said party's open and vitriolic hostility to the science and principles of the chiropractic profession.
Of course hypocrisy, or at the very least, willful ignorance, is not confined to one side. We are told that we are in the midst of a health care affordability crisis. We are supposed to believe that politicians on both sides have their sleeves rolled up as they sit stroking their chins in brow-furrowed concentration trying to determine how to handle this situation. And yet despite the miles of files of both clinical and research data showing the obviousness of chiropractic's viability as a means of taking a significant chunk out of our nation's health care expenditures, all we hear regarding chiropractic care is a deafening chorus of crickets.
Why? I'm not sure. But I'm thinking it's because politics is influencing MAHA. The same former granola-head, ex-hippies who 10 years ago thought that the sun rose and set out of RFK's baby blue irises as he proved the toxicity of mercury are now slavering with hate filled rage because their grandkids might not receive 82 vaccines before they leave high school! And gee, what bloc votes the most? It sure as hell isn't the black masked Antifa dweebs who melt into festering pools of shrieking fear when hauled into custody. Nope, it's the boomer radicals who switched sides faster than the French government in 1940.
One of my favorite quotes is, and I might be paraphrasing a bit, "you might not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you". You might think that MAHA isn't political and should remain so, but that's not what the politicians think.
difficult to believe that the people so long in the forefront of these movements have abandoned them. Seems to me to be the messaging is wrong. There are those who wish to see those guilty of lying these last 50 years punished. But more we want the progress made understood and the tasks to be done laid out. And one should not hesitate to point out that these "well-thy" benefits have enormous positive impact on current and future healthcare costs.
Ive lost 1/2 of my organic groupie friends, their hatred for Trump/Kennedy
has ruined their brains/soul. They dont care about toxins in va$$ines, the Govt making foods
healthier, stopping dangerous wind turbines, cleaning up the public hell-th fraud etc...
I cannot understand them.
Strange.
Evil has taken hold of them, thats the only thing that makes sense.
Good, maybe in their ignorant spitefulness they will remove themselves from the picture entirely.
As an independent voter who often voted Democrat, I am personally thrilled to see this bipartisan crossover. You would think my liberal friends would also be elated to have a lifelong Democrat like RFKJr (someone they hailed as a hero for several decades) overseeing and pushing for these changes. Unfortunately, their amygdalas cannot allow them to see past blue or red. It's uncanny.
Excellent essay, Courtney Hunt! Thank you. We ignore the naysayers and carry on…
''The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of a passionate intensity. '
William Butler Yeats.
Thank you for a fine article. What should be made clear is that a great deal of this divisiveness is rooted in what is being taught to our children in K-12 education.
Children should be taught HOW to think, specifically how to be Critical Thinkers. NONE of that is being done in US K-12 public schools. Worse, children are actually being trained to be the opposite of Critical Thinkers: to be conformists.
US children are not only taught WHAT to think, but the what is steeped in progressive ideology.
About 4 million students graduate from US high schools every year. Most of them soon become voting citizens.
You figure out what will happen when 3± million voters who have been propagandized with progressive ideology, and who are trained to be lemmings, are added EVERY YEAR.
Now tell me why no major US Conservative organization is doing anything meaningful about this? In other words we have effectively abandoned what is taught to our children (the curriculum) to the Left. I seem to be one of a handful of people fighting this (e.g., see my substack <https://criticallythinking.substack.com/p/superior-videos-about-critical-thinking>.)
The tsunami is in sight, so we need to wake up and stop this travesty.
Health isn't political. The government should have *nothing* to do with health. But since the tyrants have forced illness upon us and stolen our money in the name of health, well... it does creep into the political world.
RFK did run for President so he is tainted a bit with politics.
But yes, health should have nothing to do with politics.
This is so sadly true. The vaccine issue along with intense dislike and distrust of President Trump seen to lie at the root of why many progressive liberals cannot endorse the positive progress being made on health. Along with corporate influencing against Mr Kennedy.
Liberalism is a mental illness.
And willful ignorance.
Could it be seen as an idealogue's mindset of unquestioning belief in the power of science, technology, and government to save us?
What is amusing is the conservatives accuse RFK of being liberal, while the liberals accuse RFK of being tainted by being part of the Trump administration. The collective public can't make up their minds!
It would be funny to watch if it weren't a rather serious matter!
Break out the popcorn and enjoy the show. Laughter is healthy!
Agreed! but pregnant women downing Tylenol, and children subjected to 70 vaccinations, mutilation, etc. is not fun to contemplate.
It is terrible! Humans need to wake up and stop being manipulated by politics!
If only we could help them. My personal failure rate is 100%. Some eyes are opening, however, and maybe it will start to snowball.
It's pretty hard to help others. They need to want to help themselves. Too many of them want to prove a point with their own stupidity.
Thank you for putting into words the feeling that I do believe most people are align with. There are always those who seem to oppose, but those who do are not looking for their health to expand based on what MAHA is trying to do.
While one cannot help but agree with the spirit of Ms. Hunt's assertion, reality unfortunately, says otherwise.
For nearly a century the chiropractic profession has been aware that the opposite of Ms. Hunt's desire for rationality and fairness is the rule . To this day, despite scads of clinical evidence, doctors of chiropractic cannot advertise that chiropractic care can help with a variety of conditions that the government decrees may only be handled with pharmaceuticals.
Once the government decided to insert itself, via the Flexner report over a century ago, into the process of determining what does and does not qualify as "health care", or to what extent free American citizens might use their paid for insurance benefits to cover the health care services they choose to use for themselves and their families, the politicization of MAHA was baked into the cake.
Indeed, it was quite instructive, from a psychological viewpoint, to observe leftist doctors of chiropractic dissolve into puddles of cognitive dissonance as they attempted to balance their loyalty to the democrat party of 2024 with the reality of said party's open and vitriolic hostility to the science and principles of the chiropractic profession.
Of course hypocrisy, or at the very least, willful ignorance, is not confined to one side. We are told that we are in the midst of a health care affordability crisis. We are supposed to believe that politicians on both sides have their sleeves rolled up as they sit stroking their chins in brow-furrowed concentration trying to determine how to handle this situation. And yet despite the miles of files of both clinical and research data showing the obviousness of chiropractic's viability as a means of taking a significant chunk out of our nation's health care expenditures, all we hear regarding chiropractic care is a deafening chorus of crickets.
Why? I'm not sure. But I'm thinking it's because politics is influencing MAHA. The same former granola-head, ex-hippies who 10 years ago thought that the sun rose and set out of RFK's baby blue irises as he proved the toxicity of mercury are now slavering with hate filled rage because their grandkids might not receive 82 vaccines before they leave high school! And gee, what bloc votes the most? It sure as hell isn't the black masked Antifa dweebs who melt into festering pools of shrieking fear when hauled into custody. Nope, it's the boomer radicals who switched sides faster than the French government in 1940.
One of my favorite quotes is, and I might be paraphrasing a bit, "you might not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you". You might think that MAHA isn't political and should remain so, but that's not what the politicians think.
difficult to believe that the people so long in the forefront of these movements have abandoned them. Seems to me to be the messaging is wrong. There are those who wish to see those guilty of lying these last 50 years punished. But more we want the progress made understood and the tasks to be done laid out. And one should not hesitate to point out that these "well-thy" benefits have enormous positive impact on current and future healthcare costs.