LIVE: RFK Jr.’s confirmation hearing for health secretary resumes (youtube.com)
RFK's confirmation now in its second day. I guess there might be some resistence to health direction that doesn't involve doing whatever BigPharma says.
I watched at least a few minutes. Because RJK is not a typical interview subject for Congress. He knows what it's like to be a senator. He has experience with difficult, controversial subjects (conspiracies) and with subjects that have political opposition (restrictions on BigPharma and government freedom to implement health policy on citizens). He's also really sharp and also really sincere-seeming. And he's mature.
Senator Blunt Rochester during the RFK confirmation hearings took up diversity really strongly, prefacing with RFKs statements that he wants more diversity but then accusing with the end of DEI programs, which raises another point of DEI programs in government, which is that without special programs, no higher up is responsible, really for any lower official, because the lower official was either the best for the job or had a special individual mutual-advantage relationship. However, with any special program like DEI, it is more likely the case that people will hold offices who really just owe it to their higher-up, and that person often shares a tribal identity with that person, a further disincentive to popular benefit. If a DEI hire (who is not a top candidate otherwise) were to lose their job, they can't go find another one at the same level. This would make them more loyal to their boss.