There is confusion or misinformation about Kennedy's political bent. Democrats scream "ANTI-VAX" repeatedly to claim that RFK Jr is a Ted Cruz Republican. Republicans point to RFK Jr's enviromentalism and other positions to claim he is a Bernie Sanders Democrat.
Kennedy's site details many of his plans and positions :
https://www.kennedy24.com/Below is a summary taken from his campaign site. The overall truth is that RFK Jr is left-leaning. He is not a hard-left Bernie Sanders / Liz Warren liberal, but he is not a Republican at all.
He may be comparable to Mayor Bloomberg in terms of mixing liberal views with a few conservative views sprinkled
Democratic policies / ideas:- $15 minimum wage
- Support unions; criminally charge corporations that try to break up unions
- Give federal tax deduction for union dues
- Offer free childcare
- Vastly reduce military spending; divert military budget funding to infrastructure, education, healthcare
- Make student debt dischargeable in bankruptcy, remove interest rates on student loans, and allow refinancing
- Lower tuition costs by making schools responsible for defaults
- Offer government-backed mortgage loans to lower high interest rates on mortgages
- Incentivize transition to zero-waste cycles and clean energy sources
- Protect wild lands by blocking the expansion of mining, logging, oil drilling
- No need for a 2,000-mile wall along the border
- Expand legal immigration
- Reduce / restrict government surveillance
- End War on drugs; give amnesty to nonviolent drug offenders
- Move prisons' focus from punishment to rehabilitation
- Incentive police to refrain from making unneccesary arrests; prioritize de-escalation and mediation training
- Set aside federal money to rebuild black infrastructure, such as schools and farms in black areas
- Establish low-cost or free addiction healing centers on organic farms, open for the whole public
- Expand government-funded programs for youths, such as job training and social service
- Free passport cards for any and all U.S. citizens, ensuring all citizens have government-ID
- Protect Native American land and sacred sites and restore any land that has been taken illegally
- Break up "too-big-to-fail" banks and monopolies
- Promise to bail out homeowners, debtors, and small businesses if crisis occurs
- Promote alternative and holistic therapies to reduce health-care cost
- Refuse to reduce any veteran benefits
- Redesign Peace Corps to function as job training college alternative: offer 4-yr program with benefits akin to military
BiPartisan:
- Secure border and halt illegal immigration
- More funding for immigration courts and border agencies
- Reverse chronic disease epidemic
- Promote government transparency, prosecute corruption, rein in lobbyists
- Dismantle censorship-industrial complex in the Big Tech companies
- Never weaponize the law against political opponent, nor hold politicians above the law
- End school to prison pipeline
- Establish a Veterans' Council in President Executive Office to address veteran issue
Republican policies / ideas- Limit trade deals to stop low-wage countries from getting American jobs
- Reduce foreign aid (e.g. Ukraine), end proxy wars, and reduce American military presence abroad
- Biden admin has failed USA on border security; they dismantled technology like motion sensors at border
- Ensure Covid-era lockdowns never happen again
- Vaccine skeptism
- Promote trade schools over 4-year college
