And the Good evening. It's Monday, June 12th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update,

our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 PM Eastern exclusively here on

Rumbull, the free speech alternative to YouTube. Tonight, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

has long followed a trajectory that made him an ideal Democrat and a beloved liberal.

He obviously bears the name of one of the most admired political families of the 20th century

in the Democratic Party.

His father was the attorney general of the United States, a senator from New York, and one of the most consequential primary

challengers to a sitting American president having driven President Lyndon Johnson out of the

race in 1968 with his surging campaign based on his opposition to the Vietnam War, which

L.B.J. had championed and that campaign ended only when his father was assassinated.

And with a pedigree from Harvard and the London School of Economics, he was also a long-time

environmental lawyer. But rather than simply slotting himself into the easy path available

to him as the progeny of one of America's most storied political families,

he has instead chosen the much more difficult path

of being an independent thinker, a dissident

to some of the political establishments most cherished

pieties and is now featuring a deeply heterodox and

trans-partisan platform on the basis of which he's seeking the

Democratic Party nomination against the incumbent President Joe Biden.

It's hard to pin down RFK Jr.

ideologically, as is true of almost anyone interesting these days.

He has become an outspoken opponent of the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine, a vehement critic of the U.S.

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