Put ‘Hope’ Back on the Ballot in 2024
By Louis Conte, Headlines Editor, The Kennedy Beacon
By Louis Conte, Headlines Editor, The Kennedy Beacon
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Both the Democratic and Republican parties have candidates who want the American people to believe that their economic records are great.
Donald Trump says that he gave America the greatest economy ever. Joe Biden says that “Bidenomics” has the economy humming along.
Both men are wrong.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted the following video and then this on X on March 14:
Kennedy wrote: “This is why I’m running for president. This experience is increasingly common and the strongest driving force behind voters’ desperation for change. I will work tirelessly to earn your vote between now and November.”
While the video of the young woman has been removed, her moving testimonial endures: it shows where things really are in today’s economy. Inflation has wrecked her life. She is working long hours and still cannot afford to eat and keep a roof over her head. This month she hit the wall. She says she will not be able to pay her rent. Her feelings of frustration, desperation, and hopelessness are palpable.
No one this young should have eyes that look that old.
When I was a teenager, I recall my father once telling me that my job in life was to create a better world for the next generation. I am now 63 years old. Watching this young woman in her situation left me feeling ashamed and angry because we have not given her a country where she has hope for better days ahead.
Excuse me, Joe Biden. Excuse me, Donald Trump. A good economy is not about rising stock markets, low unemployment rates, or corporate profits. Excuse me CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and all the rest of the mainstream media, which try to gaslight Americans into believing the economy is doing well while they struggle to put food on the table. It is time to get honest and start thinking about what we are leaving to the next generation. Right now, we are bequeathing them an unsustainable debt-plagued mess.
This presidential election needs to be about making the world better for the next generation. In 2024, hope needs to be at the top of the ballot.
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Cómo recuperar la “Esperanza” en las boletas electorales de 2024
Por Louis Conte, editor de titulares, The Kennedy Beacon
Tanto los partidos demócrata como el republicano tienen candidatos que quieren que el pueblo estadounidense crea que la situación económica es excelente.
Donald Trump dice que le dio a Estados Unidos la mejor economía de la historia. Joe Biden, por su parte, dice que la “Bidenconomía” hace que la economía crezca.
¿La realidad? Ambos están equivocados
El candidato presidencial independiente Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hizo este post en X ayer:
“Es por eso que me estoy presentando a la candidatura presidencial. Este deseo de cambio ha venido aumentando y la desesperación de los votantes es cada vez más fuerte. Trabajaré incansablemente para ganar su voto desde ahora y hasta noviembre”.
El post de Kennedy enlaza a un video de una mujer joven, el cual fue eliminado posteriormente. El conmovedor testimonio de la joven muestra la realidad de la economía de hoy y cómo la inflación le ha arruinado la vida. Ella trabaja largas horas y aun así no puede garantizar su alimentación o mantener un techo. Este mes su situación llegó al límite y dice que ya no podrá pagar su alquiler. Sus sentimientos de frustración, desesperación, y desesperanza son palpables a través del video.
Nadie tan joven debería tener ojos que parezcan tan viejos
Cuando era adolescente, recuerdo que mi padre una vez me dijo que mi propósito en la vida era crear un mundo mejor para la próxima generación. Ahora que tengo sesenta y tres años me siento avergonzado y enojado con la situación de esta joven porque no le hemos dado un país en el que tenga la esperanza de un mejor futuro.
¡Perdón, Joe Biden! ¡Perdón, Donald Trump! Pero una buena economía no se refiere al aumento de los mercados de valores, a las bajas tasas de desempleo o las ganancias corporativas. Perdónenme CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, y el Washington Post y todo el resto de los principales medios de comunicación que intentan engañar a los estadounidenses, haciéndoles creer que la economía va bien mientras la lucha diaria continua por poner comida en la mesa.
Es hora de ser honestos y reflexionar en lo que le estamos dejando a la próxima generación. En este momento, nuestro legado es un desorden insostenible plagado de deudas.
Esta elección presidencial debe tratar de hacer que el mundo sea mejor para la próxima generación. En 2024, la mayor esperanza debe permanecer en el proceso electoral.
One day in June 2008 both Obama and Clinton disappeared from the campaign trail. Their campaigns had no explanation for their absence. In fact they met at a rural Virginia hotel with David Rockefeller, who told Hillary that she would be dropping out. Two days later she did. This confirmed the conclusion of years before that by Gore Vidal that American political conventions were gatherings of the two American parties to choose presidential candidates from shortlists provided to them by David Rockefeller.
I can trace the effort of the American powers that be to control the political process in America back to the 1930s. Its control over everything in America has become tighter over the years. The goal is to make a few aristocratic families very wealthy at the expense of everyone else.
Biden is part of this effort. What he says and what he does, mostly behind-the-scenes, are two different things. He cannot be unaware of the economic terror descending upon most Americans. And yet he dishes out pablum to them about the glories of Bidenomics.
Trump may have presided over a time when things got better for working people. He is certainly an outsider to the group I complain of. Nevertheless the Republican party is just as much a part of that group as the Democrats. Trump is a red herring.
Two great Americans have fought this system in my lifetime. They were brothers and respectively uncle and father of RFK Jr. who now follows in their footsteps. That is why he is so maligned by the spokespersons for the real American government: the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Bobby will bring economic security back for common Americans. I was too young to vote for President Kennedy. My vote for Bobby will be the most important one of my life. Please join me.
This short article touched my heart. I have no children of my own, but I cannot stomach what is being done to the youth of this country, to the future of our planet, to humanity all over the world. I find so many who own homes, educate their children and care nothing about those outside their nuclear family. We are here in this life to do more than work endless hours, be mindless consumers, visit “sick care” professionals, find ways to escape reality. I find comfort that I’m not alone, when I connect with other Kennedy supporters. Thank you for caring, for having a heart, and for supporting a man who stands for what’s valuable in life.