Eric Zuesse
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Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/)
So far, there have been only two national U.S. pollings about the “Favorable” and “Unfavorable” ratings by America’s registered voters, regarding announced and possible though as-yet unannounced U.S. Presidential candidates, that included as an option Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who announced his candidacy for the Democratic Party’s nomination, on 18 April 2023. (At least two other pollings have been done that excluded his name from the listed options.) Each of those two pollings was done by the Harvard-CAPS-Harris polling organization, and sampled 2,000+ registered voters, the first of them being taken in June, and the second one being in July. Both times, only one of the many listed announced and unannounced candidates scored a stellar-high net favorable rating, it was +21% both times, and that person was RFK Jr. (Despite this, when the Economist/YouGov Poll sampled 1,500 U.S. registered voters during 26-29 August 2023, they excluded his name from among the ones that were listed for the respondents to rate, and this is remarkable, since he was already known to have been by far the highest-rated person in each of those two prior pollings about this.)
Both of those Harvard-CAPS-Harris poll-results are described and linked-to here.
In the July Harvard-CAPS-Harris poll, the second, third, and fourth highest net-rated candidates were Vivek Ramaswamy +34%-18%=+16%, Tim Scott +33%-22%=10%, and Elon Musk +44%-35%=+9%. Trump was at -4%, and Biden at -14%.
In the June one, they were both Musk and Scott +9%, and Ramaswamy +8%. Trump was -3%, and Biden -11%.
(In the August Economist/YouGov poll, of the names that the majority of the voters knew anything about, the top-rated ones were Scott at -1% and Ramaswamy at -8%. Perhaps as they were becoming better-known, they were losing not gaining net support.)
What explains the extraordinarily high respect (or perhaps even love) that Americans have for RFK Jr.?
The CNBC cable TV channel on the economy is owned and controlled by the Democratic Party billionaire Brian Roberts, and is one of the few liberal mainstream U.S. news-media to have interviewed RFK Jr., which was headlined on August 30th, “Watch CNBC’s full interview with Democratic Presidential Nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”. By September 8th, it had 337,725 views and 3,745 comments. Here were the “Top Comments” (the most liked):
@bismuthinuffin
A real president
@zakmayo1804
Democratic party will never let him run, can you imagine if they let him debate Biden? There is no comparison, RFK speaks so much sense and exactly what this country needs.
@williston8
It’s rare to find a candidate that I believe, genuinely cares about the country and its people.
@chrystinejohnson6261
I’m happy to see mainstream media giving this man a platform to speak! Other mainstreams should follow!
@WarHammer1989
Shout out to CNBC for an actual fair interview. I didn’t know the mainstream media was capable of that anymore. Thank you!
@danfitzpatrick4112
The American people deserve/ have the right!, to see what choices they have in any Democratic election.
Whether it be between two Democrats two Republicans or a Democrat versus Republican etc!
@cm9859
Mr. Kennedy most definitely has my vote in 2024! Love ️ his intelligent responses. He talks to the lower to middle class, we are struggling. Food, gas, rent, mortgages, taxes have sky rocketed, especially since Covid. Biden needs to stop sending Billions and Billions to Ukraine. Ridiculous! We need those Billions and Billions for our own people !
@SethPattersonTheEFIguy
It’s so refreshing to listen to an intelligent politician who is not owned by corporate interests
@caseyclyde3006
Love that he is talking about real issues, and real solutions.
The Fox News cable TV channel is owned and controlled by the Republican Party billionaire Rupert Murdoch, and has interviewed this Democratic Party candidate many times (perhaps simply because he hates Biden; Murdoch is famously partisan). They did so on August 29th, headlining “Jesse Watters interviews RFK Jr from New York’s Central Park”. By September 6th, it had 243,829 views and 13,640 comments. Here were the “Top Comments” (the most liked):
@Godpleasesaveamerica
I have a lot of respect for RFK Jr. He’s what real Democrats used to be
@jameskuhn432
This is the interview I’ve been waiting for! Thank you Jesse for doing this! It’s crazy that he’s a Democrat, but FOX is the only one that will talk with him.
@changingworld7467
As a veteran, RFK jr is the best candidate of my lifetime. The Dem Party of my youth was mostly a party of peace and free speech, and bodily autonomy. Now, it is a party of Wall Street, forever wars, censorship, lockdowns and forced vaccinations. RFK jr is going to keep rising in the polls. The US needs better leaders in both parties.
@THINBLUELINE.K9-OFFICER-5558
Thank you, RFK Jr. and Jesse for allowing us to actually see & understand this. I’m not a Democrat. I have much respect for RFK Jr.
@ladikmk
RFK Jr is a humble man, who truly cares about not only the security and welfare of our country and its citizens, but humanity as a whole. He actually walks what he talks.
@Nanno00
Thank you for airing an interview with RFK Jr. If you keep this up, I may have to stop avoiding and badmouthing Fox News. As a centrist, I’m really impressed with RFK Jr so far. I hope there is a longer length continuation of this interview.
@yochevedbrachasimon4979
Whatever party RFK JR is on, I will vote for. I want my country to be restored to sanity. He is the real deal.
RFK Jr. appeals to large numbers of people in both Parties. He is the only candidate or prospective candidate, thus far, who does. Obviously, if he wins the Democratic Party’s nomination, then he will almost certainly become America’s next President. The same thing can’t be credibly said about Biden or any of the other candidates. Trump is the same as Biden: respected only by the public in his Party — not by Independents or the other Party. (So: a Trump-v.-Biden contest would be a contest between two nominees neither of which would have any chance at all of becoming the national leader in any truly democratic country.)
To get a better and fuller view of this unique candidate, RFK Jr., look at the show he put on, on 18 April 2023, in Boston, his campaign-announcement. But you might want to start viewing it at 34:00, when the introductions start. RFK Jr.’s extemporaneous 13,797-word, 108-minute-long, speech — delivered without any prepared text — starts at 46:00 (46 minutes) and goes till 2:34 (154 minutes), a total of 108 minutes. Because there was no written text, no transcript has been supplied; but someone (not affiliated with the campaign) transcribed and posted to the Web “RFK Jr. Presidential Announcement Speech” [without the introducers], and it has lots of errors. This is the sort of thing that often happens when a speech is delivered without a prepared text. Anyway, this is one instance in which one has to see and hear the speech in order to be able to understand its full meaning, about him, and about America.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s new book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
I also plan to vote for JFK in the next election because he is by far, very far, the best choice. All this and knowing that there is no chance he can possibly win in these utterly lawless and corrupt times. From the way the mainstream media, which follows orders from above, acts, they don’t even mention him as a possible candidate. They are not only silencing him but pretending he does not even exist. This shows me that the dark powers running this country fear him even more than they fear Trump. His only chance might be if he… Read more »
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I tend to think that American News is always bad news. You mean to tell me that we can get some good news for a change?
“Democratic Party billionaire Brian Roberts”—— Weasel words!
Brian Roberts, the Jewish chairman and CEO of Comcast, which is the second-largest broadcasting and cable television company in the world by revenue.
Is it still a bigoted anti-Semitic stereotype, to notice that the Jews control the Media, Eric Zuesse?
If you do a good job of smearing me as a bigoted anti-Semite, you might get your Classical Music reviews, reinstated on amazon! Laughing out loud!
Are you letting the cat out of the bag again. Shhh. You’re not supposed to mention that.
Oh wait, they brag about it themselves these days. Hey, they might as well let people know who the Boss is. Don’t want a bunch of confused Gentiles running around.
He’s repulsive not because he’s a Jew but because he’s a neocon, like all U.S. and UK billionaires are. He’s no worse than the neocons who aren’t Jews.
It’s not quite as simple as that. It’s like this. Compare a lone shoplifter to a member of organized crime. They’re both criminals, but their impact on society is quite different. So not all criminals or all neocons are created equal.
You are saying that every Jew is like your stereotype (a member of organized crime ((an organized-crime ring that includes all of the millions of Jews and no non-Jews)). Both parts (the all part, and the none part) of that, are not only false but ridiculously false, absurdly false, and so the evilness (the falsehood) there is yours, not his, and it is obvious. You display there a mindless bigotry, which is wildly at variance from reality, and it lets off the hook of blame the vast majority of neocons (U.S.-imperialists) as-if they aren’t neocons. Most neocons are not Jews,… Read more »
Most NeoCons in power ARE Jews. You don’t know what you sre talking about.
Obama’s Chief of Staff Jew Rahm Emanul, Ibamas Seniir Advisor Jew David Axelrod.
Biden’s administratiin is over ,80% Jews.
Collective punishment depends on collective responsibility, and the Jewish people on the whole, massively benefit from from their many organised crime syndicates. Take the Anti-Defamation League, who are working with the FBI to close down free speech in the United States. and the fact that the ADL even shares office space with the FBI and with the United Nations in New York. Just take a look at the ADLs, ‘Unpacking Kanye West’s Antisemitic Remarks’, to see how they can destroy anyone who calls out Jewish power in the United States. Adidas went onto terminate their partnership with Kanye West, over… Read more »
Crass, you have just now admitted that you are a racist: you treat an individual NOT as an individual but as being a member of a group that you define by its supposed traits, and you believe that guilt is collective NOT individual. So, for example: you admire Hitler, who agreed with you and who instituted policies to carry it out.
“Crass, you have just now admitted that you are a racist:”— A Racist?
I don’t even classify one of the three major species of hominin, as entirely human. Out of the three subspecies of hominin, namely the Caucasoid, the Mongoloid and the Negroid, I consider one of the subspecies of hominin, to not be entirely Human, but closer to Homo erectus than to Homo Sapiens.
I guess this make me a speciesist rather than a racist.
I have been known to descriminate myself on many occasions. I suppose that makes me a descriminating person or perhaps I am an evil “Descriminator.”
And when people use these ridiculous pejoratives like “racist” they immediately try to tie in hatred. So if my child comes home with a 600 lb date and I suggest that it may be a bad idea, I will be called an “obesist” who hates fat people. 🙂
The word “racist” is a pathetic pejorative designed to close down real debate and replace it with childish name calling. I hope we can do better than that.
Yes, but NeoCons who hold power are mostly Jews
I don’t know whether that is true, but it is irrelevant. And ANY neocon is guilty because that person, that individual IS a neocon — NOT because of the person’s ethnicity or religion.
It is Definitely relevant when you consider that only 2% of the U.S. population are Jews.
Would it be more relevant to you if they were mostly blacks, or hispanics or women or Muslims?
Of course it would.
But we have been indoctrinated to ignore the overrepresentation of Jews in positions of power and to accuse Anyone who doesn’t ignore it as an “Anti-Semite”.
Yes, we are forbidden to mention Jews or Israel in anything but a positive light.
That is the informal brainwashing that weak minded oeople succumb to.
A non-bigot doesn’t mention ANY ethnicity “in a positive light.” Nor in a negative light. A non-bigot evaluates each individual AS an individual — NOT by reference to ANY ethnicity, nor religion, nor nationality (etc.).
Your virtue signalling is cringeworthy and nauseating!
I will happily wear any of the weaponised words of lefties, such as Bigot and Racist, as a badge of honour.
Then a “non-bigot” is required to ignore reality.
Its sad to see people to jump at a candidate knowing nothing about their positions on most of the issues. Big Government? Taxes? Foreign Wars? ( not just Ukraine ) Illegal immigration? Crime? LGBTQ+? Inflation? and on and on… It’s way too early to give credence to any poll. Polls are meaningless at this point. As far as RFK JR. is concerned, he has repeatedly caved when confronted. RFK JR. cancelled “MOM’S FOR LIBERTY” speaking engagements because of criticism from the SPLC. RFK JR. slso was made to apologize profusely for a benign comment he made with Ann Franks name… Read more »
“Its sad to see people to jump at a candidate knowing nothing about their positions on most of the issues.”
It is all about the Cult of personality, with the conditioned American electorate.
In America anyone who is attacked or ignored by the msm has to be doing something right. And the Kennedy family is not exactly an unknown in American Politics. And RFK Jr. heads an organization strongly opposed to the Vax Murder Machine. Not exactly a pig in a poke. Then look at the people up against him. Most should be peeking out between bars at the Hague. So his chances of success may be slim to none, but that is just a reflexion of the rotten and corrupt political system we have here. Even H. L. Mencken would be astonished… Read more »
If you’re a mathmetician, can you calculate the following?
A safe has 4 dials and each dial has 3 letters.
Dial 1 has i J K
Dial 2 has G H i
Dial 3 had M N O
Dial 4 has G H i
The question is: How many different permutations ( combinations ) are possible? Just curious.
I think it is 3 to the power of 4, which is 81 possible combinations, but I am not a mathematician.
If the letters can not be duplicated, (as in Dial one “i” and Dial two “i” and dial four “i”, then it would make things much more interesting, although you could work out all the possible combinations in less than 10 minutes, with a pen and paper.
Thanks for that.
Mathematician? I’m not a mathematician. I’m a con artist who copies stuff and tries to fool people. I even managed to fool some major universities into giving me advanced degrees. How about that? And all with an IQ under 60. Not bad, huh?
Not bad at all.
Reminds me of “catch me if you can” Frank Abagnale Jr..