I wasn’t planning on writing about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., but I just saw his interview on the Erin Burnett show on CNN, and attention must be paid.

The most striking thing that I heard on the interview is that Joe Biden is a bigger threat to American democracy than Donald Trump. Apparently, this is because Kennedy thinks that Biden has politicized the Department of Justice, and that no other president has ever done this before. Since that is false as to both claims, there are only two possibilities: one is that Kennedy is out of his mind (this is a good bet) and the other is that he is trying as hard as he can, any way he can, to take votes from Joe Biden. That is what makes him so terrifying. He doesn’t have to take away a lot of votes, particularly in those bell weather states.

I will give Kennedy credit for being able to list all of the problems we have in this country, domestic and foreign. He went through a laundry list of them. And he then declared that neither Biden nor Trump have a ghost of a chance of resolving any of them. He claims that the Democratic Party has given up on the working class, and that Trump is just fooling the working class to make them believe that he is working for them. But Kennedy himself, he says, is really for the working class.

You would think that he would then have given at least some hint of how he would help the working class, that he would describe some of his policies and how they would differ from the two major candidates, of how he would work with a Congress with no members who belong to the same party as President Kennedy, Jr would belong to and who would be positioning themselves immediately for the next presidential elections. But no, he didn’t go there. Didn’t go near there. He did say that there was basically no difference between the Biden and Trump policies (except on the very margins).

Of course, he also didn’t talk about the various conspiracies he subscribes to. He is very anti-vaccine (but you know that), but he says that, well, not anti-vaccine, he just thinks they need to be tested more, because as they exist today, they cause autism and peanut allergies. But apparently he is also against fluoridation of water, against acetaminophen, He accused Anthony Fauci and Bill and Melinda Gates of profiting off of COVID-19, and of forcing people to get vaccinations or have their Gates subsidies all cut off. He accused them of trying to prolong the pandemic to increase vaccine sales. He posted a picture of Fauci with a Hitler mustache. He said that COVID was engineered to attack certain groups of people, like Caucasians and Blacks, but that Chinese and Ashkenazic Jew were mostly immune. He claims that no one really knows if HIV and AIDS are related. He has also expressed doubts about Lee Harvey Oswald killing his uncle Jack (and apparently believes that the CIA might have been involved), and believes that Sirhan Sirhan did not kill his father. He believes the 2004 election was rigged and stolen and that Jack Kerry was the legitimately elected president. He does not seem concerned about guns (he says we have the same number of guns per capita as Switzerland, which is not true, I am told).

He does have a strong environmental background, both as a litigator and as a non-profit leader. You can’t deny him that (I don’t think).

His sisters Rory, Kathleen and Kerry and his brother, Joe have all come out against his candidacy, as have Joe’s son Joe III, and cousins from the Shriver and Schlossberg families.

Unfortunately, the Kennedy name still means something to some people. This is why, according to one critic, he is a candidate for the presidency and not just another crackpot.

It is unclear today how many states will put them on their ballot. That question, if you are really observant, takes us back to another of my posts from a few months ago. If Colorado cannot tell Trump he can’t go on the ballot, how can any state tell that to Kennedy? Or, if I wanted to run, to me?