A Letter to Liberals Quotes

“The majority of Democrats appear to believe that the Demos—the people—can no longer be trusted to govern themselves and that it is, therefore, permissible for elites to manipulate the public with propaganda, and even to censor information that might infect the population with dangerous thoughts.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals

“Unable to defend the scientific underpinnings of their ideology in debate, liberals rely on book bans and an arsenal of coercive muzzling strategies including deplatforming, delicensing, doxxing, gaslighting, defunding, retracting, marginalizing, and vilifying scientists, physicians, journalists, and vaccine-injured Americans who complied but now refuse to toe the official line. The hallmark of Lockdown Liberalism is a bullying form of censorship called “cancel culture,” which disappears not just the heretical language, but also the heretic who uttered it.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals

“Like Galileo’s colleagues, the “Lockdown Left” has abandoned the discipline of evidence-based medicine. Instead of scientific citation, they rely on appeals to often undeserving authorities who have manufactured “scientific consensus” by cherry-picking data to support a predetermined policy. Sanctimonious bromides to “follow the science,” “trust the experts,” most often mean blind dogmatic trust in the official—and often whimsical—pronouncements of amoral pharmaceutical companies and their venal government vassals at captive agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH, and WHO.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals

“Liberals have long agreed that censorship of dissent is the emblem of totalitarian systems. The new strategy of silencing government critics like myself is therefore repugnant to liberalism’s foundational values and is clearly offensive to the American Constitution’s guarantee of free speech.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals

“According to an August 18, 2021, Pew Research Center Survey, 65 percent of Democrats currently support government censorship of unauthorized opinions.2 That astonishing result suggests that Democrats have lost their faith not only in their party traditions, but also in democracy. The majority of Democrats appear to believe that the Demos—the people—can no longer be trusted to govern themselves and that it is, therefore, permissible for elites to manipulate the public with propaganda, and even to censor information that might infect the population with dangerous thoughts.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals

“We Democrats once took pride in ourselves as the party that understood how to read science critically. We confronted—and mercilessly deconstructed—the fatally flawed faux-science contrived by the carbon industry’s PhD biostitutes to support climate change denialism. We also exercised healthy skepticism toward the corrupt drug companies that brought us the opioid crisis and that have paid $86 billion in criminal and civil penalties for a wide assortment of frauds and other crimes since 2000.1 We were disgusted by the phenomenon of “agency capture” and felt a deep revulsion for Pharma’s pervasive control of Congress, the media, and the scientific journals. How is it, then, that today’s Democrats become angry at the mere suggestion that the prevailing COVID drug and vaccine narrative may be heavily manipulated through orchestrated propaganda by a Pharma cartel with billions at stake in promoting COVID countermeasures?”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals

“Democrats were once the party of intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and faith in scientific and liberal empiricism. Liberalism’s foundational assumption, after all, is that freedom of speech and expression are essential to a functioning democracy; the free flow of information yields governing policies that have been annealed in the cauldron of fierce, open debate before triumphing on the battlefield of ideas.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals

“Conventional FDR/JFK liberalism prided itself on its open-minded tolerance of contrary opinion, its implacable protectiveness of the right to dissent, its embrace of new ideas, and its fearless love for contention and disputation.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals

“I am an FDR/Kennedy liberal, but my choice to openly question government policies for managing the pandemic—under both Presidents Biden and Trump—has made me pariah, primarily in liberal circles. Many traditional liberals—reacting to the orchestrated fear and propaganda—have embraced “Lockdown Liberalism,” an ideology that departs dramatically from the tenets of traditional liberalism.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals

“It is my hope that this short book will remind all Americans that blind faith in authority is a feature of religion and autocracy, but not of science nor democracy.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals

“According to an August 18, 2021, Pew Research Center Survey, 65 percent of Democrats currently support government censorship of unauthorized opinions.2 That astonishing result suggests that Democrats have lost their faith not only in their party traditions, but also in democracy.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals

“Liberals are missing a great opportunity here to reenfranchise the working class by acknowledging the inequitable impact of so many of the pandemic policies that Donald Trump and leading Democrats fast-tracked and green-lit with patriotic fervor.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals

“The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist…. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government…. The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. We must … be alert to the … danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals