Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., stood before the Republican Midterm Convention last Thursday night and delivered a message especially for those who traditionally vote Democrat. Kennedy spent most of his 72 years identifying with the Democratic Party. His father was a Democratic senator, attorney general and presidential candidate. His uncle was President John F. Kennedy. Yet Kennedy told Republicans, “I mourn the fact that neither my father nor my uncle would recognize the Democratic Party of today.”

Kennedy was asking longtime Democrats a simple question: Does the party you support today still represent the principles that caused you, your parents, or your grandparents to support it?

Kennedy described the Democratic Party of his youth as the party of working people, laborers, police officers, firefighters, and the middle class. He recalled that John Kennedy campaigned for tax cuts, strong national defense and opposition to communism. Kennedy remembered Democrats as defenders of the Bill of Rights, particularly what he called “unbridled free speech,” and as skeptics of concentrated government and corporate power.

His argument is that the party gradually became dominated by political, corporate, and cultural elites while becoming increasingly comfortable with government intervention in Americans’ lives.

If you are a Democrat or are considering voting for Democrats, Kennedy’s warning deserves serious examination.

Kennedy charged that Democrats had “systematically obliterated the Bill of Rights,” especially during COVID. He pointed to government pressure on social-media companies over speech; COVID mandates shutting down churches and public gatherings; vaccine mandates involving employment and personal medical decisions; and government actions infringing on privacy, property and due-process protections.

Kennedy has criticized both parties over constitutional liberties, but says the assault intensified under Biden. His broader argument is that a party once suspicious of centralized authority increasingly embraced institutional power to accomplish its objectives. He also charged that opposition to Donald Trump became such an overriding Democratic political cause that it displaced the principles and policies that once defined the party.

Political parties change. Candidates change. Platforms change. Our responsibility before God remains. Jesus said in Matthew 7:16, “You will know them by their fruits.” That is a pretty good standard for politics, too.

Look beyond television commercials, party labels, personalities, and inherited loyalties. Examine what candidates advocate, what their parties actually do, and what fruit their policies produce.

Kennedy changed his political allegiance after concluding that the party of his father and uncle had radically changed. Every voter, Republican, Democrat, or independent, should periodically conduct that same examination. Elections require choices, and those choices deserve something deeper than habit or family tradition.

Know the fruit. Discern the truth. Then vote your conscience. Share this with your Democrat friends and family.

Christian News | The Daily Jot

Sources:

Fox News, “RFK Jr details the demise of the Democratic Party,” September 11, 2026
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6404907833112

Just the News, “Kennedy slams Democratic Party: ‘Democrats systematically obliterated the Bill of Rights,’” September 10, 2026
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/kennedy-slams-democratic-party-democrats-systematically-obliterated

Democracy in Action, RFK Jr. Libertarian National Convention speech transcript, May 24, 2024
https://www.democracyinaction.us/2024/libertarian/kennedy052424spt.html

Associated Press, Kennedy’s 2024 remarks criticizing Biden and Trump over pandemic-era civil liberties
https://apnews.com/article/53a857aadbeafbb2207ca3eb6b6775cc

Comparing the safety analysis Pfizer prepared for full FDA approval in April 2021 with Anthony Fauci’s newly released communications now shows senior health officials knew there were significant health risks of the COVID mRNA shot.

In March 2021, The Daily Jot obtained a confidential copy of Pfizer’s report from an anonymous source and held it for about a month while verifying its authenticity before reporting it. By February 2021, Pfizer already had received 42,086 case reports containing 158,893 adverse events involving cardiovascular, neurological and blood conditions, anaphylaxis, pregnancy losses and lack of efficacy. Pfizer nevertheless repeatedly concluded its reviews raised no new safety concerns.

Fauci’s own communications show that he knew significant safety concerns were being discussed and that officials were privately debating the uncertainties. Pfizer’s report already listed myocarditis, pericarditis, thrombosis, and a sweeping range of cardiovascular, neurological, immune, and inflammatory conditions as adverse events of special interest, possible side effects serious enough to warrant further investigation.

FDA acknowledged that more serious adverse reactions requiring longer follow-up might emerge. Pregnancy was one example where there was insufficient data. Fauci acknowledged a theoretical miscarriage association. Yet the Biden Administration, government, Pfizer, and the corporate news media continued the “safe and effective” narrative despite considerable evidence to the contrary.

Thousands died alone in hospitals and nursing homes, while those facilities received substantial reimbursements. Military personnel, health-care workers, government employees, students, and private-sector workers faced losing, and in some cases lost, careers and livelihoods for refusing the shot, and business failures in the wake.

Long-term safety comparisons were weakened after placebo recipients were offered vaccination. Then the bureaucracy took over. FDA at one point proposed a timetable stretching roughly 75 years to release the records. A federal judge rejected that approach and ordered the agency to release 55,000 pages every 30 days.

Government demanded unprecedented public trust and extraordinary compliance while putting bureaucratic roadblocks between Americans and the information they needed to find the truth.

Considering what those in charge knew and when they knew it, a disturbing picture emerges. Fauci, the FDA, Democratic officeholders demanding shutdowns and vaccine compliance, Pfizer, and the news media have retreated behind plausible deniability as consequences emerged. Meanwhile, healthy people I know who took the shot have since suffered strokes, cancer, heart problems, blood clots, and other serious conditions they believe are connected to it. And they got COVID anyway. They are left with questions and little accountability from those who demanded their trust and compliance.

That may be COVID’s harshest lesson: Be very careful whom you trust, especially when questioning authority is discouraged.

2 Timothy 3:13 warns, “But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.”

Sources:

Pfizer, “Cumulative Analysis of Post-authorization Adverse Event Reports of PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) Received Through 28-Feb-2021”
https://downloads.regulations.gov/FDA-2022-N-0904-17940/attachment_1.pdf

U.S. Senate, Senators Johnson and Paul, “Additional Texts from Dr. Fauci’s Government iPhone,” August 16, 2026
https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2026/08/16/senators-johnson-paul-release-additional-texts-from-dr-faucis-government-iphone/

FDA, “Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Meeting, Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine,” December 10, 2020
https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download

FDA, “Leading the Way Forward: Biden Administration Actions to Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations,” March 17, 2021
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/congressional-testimony/leading-way-forward-biden-administration-actions-increase-covid-19-vaccinations-03172021

FDA, Clinical Review Memorandum, Comirnaty, August 23, 2021
https://www.fda.gov/media/152256/download

Fauci, Lane and Redfield, “Covid-19 — Navigating the Uncharted,” New England Journal of Medicine, February 28, 2020
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387

Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency v. FDA, January 6, 2022 order
https://foiaproject.org/case_detail/?case_id=34599&style=foia&title=on