No major presidential candidate ever seemed genuinely concerned about health care in any meaningful manner until Marianne Williamson in 2019, when the self-help author went viral on the Democrats’ debate stage for highlighting the epidemic of chronic disease.
“We don’t have a health care system in the United States. We have a sickness care system in the United States,” Williamson said. “We just wait until somebody gets sick, and then we talk about who’s going to pay for the treatment and how they’re going to be treated. What we need to talk about is why so many Americans have unnecessary chronic illnesses, so many more compared to other countries.”
Enter Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. four years later, when the environmental lawyer would go on to tackle the “sick care” system as a primary pillar of his own run for the party’s presidential nomination in a race that again featured Williamson. Both, however, were sidelined by Democrats more eager to find ways to compel taxpayers pay for everybody else’s inflated health care costs blown up by too much “weed” or runaway obesity under the corporate-sponsored banner of “Body Positivity.”
Conservatives, on the other hand, have begun to embrace healthy alternatives to the lucrative “solutions” from pharmaceutical elites who capitalize on decades of blatantly bad diet advice from America’s corrupt medical “experts.” In the Republican primary, tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy picked up the epidemic of chronic disease to slam Big Pharma as a Wall Street project determined to profit off treatments over
