I like the Retro Liberal.
“Because of my family’s commitment to these issues, I spent 200 hours at Wassaic Home for the Retarded when I was in high school,” Kennedy said, referencing the Wassaic State School for the Mentally Retarded in Wassaic, New York.
“So I was seeing people with intellectual disabilities all the time. I never saw anybody with autism.”
So, as a teenager RFK was qualified to diagnose autism?
“All of us are subject to those gravities of agency capture,” Kennedy said, calling on the audience to “be conscious of that gravity because it’s going to be pulling you every single day of your career. We want to break away from this so we can make our kids healthy.”
The speech sent many FDA staffers reeling, which was undoubtedly the point.
How does this statement make anyone “reel?” To begin with, it’s absolutely true.
Not only that, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have said this many times.
Maybe they don’t like the emphasis on children’s health??