Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: "I think we're a national security state now. We've devolved away from democracy more and more towards a corporate kleptocracy. And Eisenhower, on my birthday in 1960, just Eisenhower gave his last speech in political office. Just before my uncle took the oath of office, Eisenhower warned America that the greatest threat to democracy was not a foreign enemy, but the military-industrial complex, which he said would rob us of everything that we value about this country."
"I think my uncle spent the next three years fighting against the military and the intelligence apparatus. And I think, you know, and he was killed and then my father rent office campaigning against that cartel campaign against the Vietnam war and he was also killed and i think our country since that time has been going down the path of you know of becoming a national security state."
"So interesting Eisenhower warned against that as a general it is but you know it's historically, it has been the people who actually experienced war in this country, the presidents who actually experienced war, who have done the most to try to keep us out of war. And my uncle, President Kennedy, is an example."
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