Jordan Peterson & RFK Jr.: Views on the Democratic Party and Vision for its Future
On June 5, 2023, in a Jordan Peterson interview, that has since been removed from YouTube, Robert Kennedy shares his views on the state of the Democratic Party and his vision for its future. Expressing his concerns, Kennedy believes that the Democratic Party has lost touch with its democratic values and has forgotten the Party's bedrock: the working and middle class. It has become the Party of war, censorship, fear, neocons, and Wall Street.
Key Talking Points
- Kennedy states that the Democratic Party got derailed.
- It has become the Party of war, censorship, fear, neocons, and Wall Street. The party has forgotten the people: the middle class and the bedrock.
- Using fear as a tactic goes against Franklin Roosevelt's premise – "all we have to fear is fear itself". Fear is a weapon of totalitarian control.
- Neocons have used violence as a means of control.
- Kennedy ran as a Presidential Candidate, before it was even viable, as he knows there are federal laws to stop the censorship of a Presidential Candidate.
- Peterson asked people within the Democratic Party (Senators and Congressmen) "When does the left go too far?". He notes that this is the issue facing the 20th century and he suggested to them that the trigger of going too far is when they push for "equality". Their response was generally, that "equity" means "equality of opportunity".
- Peterson states that they actually mean "equality of outcome" not the "equality of opportunity"- a very different approach. Democrats have shifted to a direction opposed to the working and middle class because they cannot understand this distinction.
- Peterson states that there is a strain of “illiberalism”, with corporate fascist collusion as represented by Kennedy's discussions on the collusion with power elites and Big Pharma. They do not see a distinction between themselves and the radicals. Peterson does not think the Universities are salvageable.
- Peterson asks Kennedy if the Democratic party is salvageable.
- When questioned about the party's salvageability, Kennedy highlights the lack of alternatives within the two-party system, leaving little choice but to work towards revitalizing the Democrats.
- He is a lifelong Democrat and the party is being taken away due to a departure of common sense.
- Sharing his perspective, Kennedy emphasizes that many of his campaign supporters are drawn to his vision for the party's future and a return to the "Kennedy Democrat" ideology, reflecting their best interests and values.
- Kennedy note that the Democrats have been highjacked by extreme ideology and irrational thought patterns.
- Kennedy urges the Democratic Party to embody the values of its voters and reclaim "common sense" by countering the influence of extreme ideologies and irrational thought patterns that have hijacked the party. He believes people desire this as reflected by the polling and his interaction with people on the street and social media.
- Peterson ends by reviewing that the core Democrat ideology of equity is indistinguishable from Marxist ideology in the 20th century - prevailing now in China. The Democrats have not taken this seriously and it is "producing stage pathologies on the cultural front".
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Key Data and Evidence Points
- Robert Kennedy is doing well in favorability in polls.
- There is an ongoing challenge in how people view their parties (Republican and Democrat) and there are major differences that have unfolded within each of the parties, likely due to societal demographic changes.
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- Democrats have been increasingly identifying as "politically liberal" over the last 2 decades particularly pronounced among non-Hispanic white Democrats who are college educated and less likely to be religious. The party's ideology has moved away from that of JFK while he was in office.
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