Comment on A monolithic and ruthless conspiracy: What was John F. Kennedy referring to?

• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I believe his observations were mostly correct, but wouldn’t tie it as closely to a “group” as he did.

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  • ehpolitical@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s amazing to me, that you were there to hear him and remember it. He’s one politician I would have loved to listen to firsthand. He seemed to say a lot of very controversial things, like when he spoke out against religious involvement in politics and named the religious groups very specifically… he was either really dumb or very brave… I imagine the latter. So do you think in this case he was maybe a bit too paranoid, or just mistaken?

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    • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I think he, personally, had made a lot of enemies because of how he spoke, and then conflated that with more general and organized resistance to his ideas instead of it being reactionary responses so his delivery.

      People are generally nowhere near as organized as we give them credit for.

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      • ehpolitical@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I can see that… it would be an easy mistake for anyone to make. Still, there are an awful lot of coincidences between what he said, what we see in fact taking place today, and that he was ultimately assassinated. Because of all that, I can’t help but believe a lot of what he said.

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