See How They Robbed Us When They Murdered the Kennedys

(So Began Their Boiled-Frog Reduction of Our Lives to Wretchedness)

 

“TV commentator Chris Matthews’ book, Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit, has been a best seller since it was released last October, but there’s a lot of important material that Matthews (deliberately) left out (to cover up Kennedy's progressive politics)...Martin Luther King was relying on Bobby to enter the race, and when he did, was overjoyed, saying he would make an outstanding president. RFK had King, Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta on his side...Why does Matthews continually ignore these points? If one thinks, as his employers at MSNBC do, that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are the liberal ideal, then what Bobby Kennedy represented in 1968 was (genuinely) radical...(and must therefore be suppressed).”

 

The following comment is a revised and expanded version of the thank-you note I posted on the comment-thread of James DiEugenio's above-linked "Distorting the Life of Bobby Kennedy," courageously published by Consortium News to refute Matthews' lies of omission:

We should all be grateful to Mr. DiEugenio for his fine work, which accurately describes the real Robert Francis Kennedy: the U.S. attorney general who repeatedly intervened on behalf the Civil Rights Movement, whose mostly unpublicized interventions I learned of as a civil rights activist in East Tennessee; the refreshingly enlightened senator from my home state of New York, whose unprecedented activism I would have endorsed with my vote had I not, in 1964, still been registered to cast my ballots in Tennessee; the RFK whose policies I sometimes (triumphantly) covered as a confident young reporter and editor in New York City and adjacent urban New Jersey; the "Bobby" whose presidential candidacy reached across racial lines to mobilize a larger and more solidarity-minded majority of the 99 Percent than ever before or since; the martyr whose assassination ended forever any rational hope the United States might someday forcibly reform predatory Capitalism at least enough to enable what was allegedly "our" nation to live up to its claims of egalitarian and humanitarian ideals.
  

That is one of the many reasons I have such scorn and contempt for the Hillaryite Democratic (sic) Party; I have long been outraged by the Democrats' sneaky efforts to hide the  magnitude of their treachery by maliciously portraying Senator Kennedy as far less progressive than he actually was.

 

Indeed this alone is perhaps the most effective tactic employed by the Democrats to disguise their morally imbecilic Neoliberal savagery; they rewrite the past to portray the Kennedys as oppression-tolerant masqueraders, lending credence to breathtaking Big Lies  of "change we can believe in" while obscuring the ever-deepening  wretchedness to which they are actually betraying us. 

But even these examples of oppression by deception do not excuse our appalling ignorance of history: our willfully embraced Moron Nation anti-intellectualism as demonstrated yet again by how even the  U.S. Left -- Pseudo-left and Real Left alike -- accepts these Hillaryite slanders as unquestionable truth, as if our national slogan were "self-deception is self-protection" or some other equally damning variant of 1984's "ignorance is strength."

Though Robert Kennedy was certainly no Marxist, he was nevertheless -- as Mr. DiEugenio so aptly reminds us -- our last hope of retaining the partial Working Class empowerment we had achieved via the (contextually) revolutionary socialism of New Deal economics...

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