Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Survey of 2024 Presidential campaign websites

On Civil Rights: Address racial healing through Targeted Community Repair

In the case of race relations, reconciliation includes repairing the damage caused by centuries of bigotry. Our administration will take racial healing seriously through a program of Targeted Community Repair. Our operating principle is not guilt for the sins of one's ancestors, but rather compassion. We will invoke the authentic desire in all Americans, white and black, liberal and conservative, to improve the condition of our Black and Native brothers and sisters. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website kennedy24.com May 4, 2023

On Crime: Instead of defunding the police, transform the police

Instead of defunding the police, we will transform the police. We will incentivize them to prevent violence, not make unnecessary arrests. We will train them in deescalation and mediation skills and partner them with neighborhood organizations. No longer will their relationship to the public be adversarial. They will focus their attention on serious crimes, not harassing ordinary people. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website kennedy24.com May 4, 2023

On Drugs: End War on Drugs, amnesty for nonviolent drug offenders

We will also take special care to ensure the civil liberties of minorities and the poor. We will end the failed War on Drugs and grant amnesty to nonviolent drug offenders. We will shut the school-to-prison pipeline, and transition prisons away from a punishment paradigm to a rehabilitation paradigm. Prisons will be an intervention in a life gone wrong, and a way to prevent offenders from harming others again. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website kennedy24.com May 4, 2023

On Free Trade: Industry ruined by 40 years of misguided free trade schemes

We will rebuild the industrial infrastructure, ruined by forty years of off-shoring and misguided "free trade" schemes. We will enact policies that favor small and medium businesses, which are the nation's real job creators and the dynamos of American enterprise. We will support labor in reclaiming its fair share of American prosperity. We will break up "too-big-to-fail" banks and monopolies, and when crisis strikes, bail out the homeowners, debtors, and small business owners instead. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website kennedy24.com May 4, 2023

On Government Reform: Roll back the secrecy and make government transparent

We are going to remake public institutions to serve the public. We will roll back the secrecy and make government transparent. We will protect whistleblowers and prosecute officials who abuse the public trust. We will rein in lobbyists and shut the revolving door that shunts people from government agencies to positions in companies they were supposed to regulate. We will get money out of politics. We will open our institutions to real citizen involvement. We will restore integrity to government. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website kennedy24.com May 4, 2023

On Health Care: We will move from a sick care system to a wellness society

We face today a terrible pandemic—not of Covid, but of chronic disease. Autoimmunity, allergies, diabetes, obesity, addiction, anxiety, and depression afflict two-thirds of the population, up from a few percent in our grandparents' time. A Kennedy administration will go beyond making existing modalities available to all, to include low-cost alternative and holistic therapies that have been marginalized in a pharma-dominated system. We will move from a sick care system to a wellness society. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website kennedy24.com May 4, 2023

On Homeland Security: End the imperial project and attend to what's been neglected

It is time to end the imperial project and attend to all that has been neglected: the crumbling cities, the antiquated railways, the failing water systems, the decaying infrastructure, the ailing economy. Annual defense-related spending is close to one trillion dollars. We maintain 800 military bases around the world. The peace dividend that was supposed to come after the Berlin Wall fell was never redeemed. Now we have another chance. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website kennedy24.com May 4, 2023

On Principles & Values: Our priority will be to restore America's moral leadership

The country is ailing, yes, but underneath there is vitality still. America was once an inspiration to the world, a beacon of freedom and democracy. Our priority will be nothing less than to restore our moral leadership. We will lead by example. When a warlike imperial nation disarms of its own accord, it sets a template for peace everywhere. It is not too late for us to voluntarily let go of empire and serve peace instead, as a strong and healthy nation. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website kennedy24.com May 4, 2023

On Technology: Dismantle Big Tech's censorship-industrial complex

Freedom of speech is the capstone of all other rights and freedoms. Once a government has the power to silence its opponents, no other right is safe. We will therefore dismantle the censorship-industrial complex, in which Big Tech censors, deplatforms, shadowbans, and algorithmically suppresses any person or opinion the government asks them to. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website kennedy24.com May 4, 2023

On War & Peace: End the proxy wars, bombing campaigns, covert operations

Kennedy will start the process of unwinding empire. We will bring the troops home. We will stop racking up unpayable debt to fight one war after another. The military will return to its proper role of defending our country. We will end the proxy wars, bombing campaigns, covert operations, coups, paramilitaries, and everything else that has become so normal most people don't know it's happening. But it is happening, a constant drain on our strength. It's time to come home and restore this country. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website kennedy24.com May 4, 2023

On War & Peace: Find a diplomatic solution that brings peace to Ukraine

As President, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will find a diplomatic solution that brings peace to Ukraine and brings our resources back where they belong. We will offer to withdraw our troops and nuclear-capable missiles from Russia's borders. Russia will withdraw its troops from Ukraine and guarantee its freedom and independence. UN peacekeepers will guarantee peace to the Russian-speaking eastern regions. We will put an end to this war. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website kennedy24.com May 4, 2023

On Crime: We will never weaponize the law against political opponents

A Kennedy administration will respect American citizens and stop treating them like suspects and schoolchildren. We will stop manipulating the public with propaganda and targeted leaks. We will never weaponize the law against political opponents, nor hold our own officials above the law. We will return the intelligence agencies to their proper role as protectors not violators of liberty. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website kennedy24.com Aug 9, 2023

On Government Reform: We will protect wild lands from further development

We will protect wild lands from further development, by curbing mining, logging, oil drilling, and suburban sprawl. We will become a global advocate for rainforest preservation and marine restoration. We will rethink development policies that promised economic growth while ignoring ecological sustainability, and ended up delivering neither. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website kennedy24.com Aug 9, 2023

On Energy & Oil: Incentivize industry to zero-waste cycles, clean energy

First, we will shift agricultural subsidies so as to encourage regenerative practices. Today, a new generation of farmers and ranchers is building soil, replenishing groundwater, and detoxifying land, all while producing just as much food as conventional farmers. Secondly, we will incentive the transition of industry to zero-waste cycles and clean energy sources, and forge agreements with other countries to implement these policies throughout the global supply chain. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website kennedy24.com May 4, 2023

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