Excellent question, and I've changed the subject of my initial posting to use ORGS rather than GODS because, as you point out, this is organizational and cultural in nature.

My guess would be that these orgs include the weapons and energy industries

i'll bet my farm the evidence is damning, if only we could see it - but there's no political will to look at it.

That's exactly it, and it's why this hearing probably won't go anywhere. None of these politicians are going to kill the goose, and they all are funded by these very orgs. It makes for good political theater, though.

If RFK runs as an independent, then that could make things interesting - he's actually the most popular candidate out there by a good margin - despite media banning him at every turn. But even then, the proof is always in the pudding. Will he follow through with his rhetoric?

That's a good question! The media has just been doing everything it can to kill his chances. They're throwing everything at him.

One thing I don't get is why his claims that covid disproportionately affected specific racial groups is racist, in the sense that we normally use that word. All sorts of diseases target certain racial groups more than others. It's a scientific fact. Northern Europeans are more likely to get Multiple Sclerosis, for example. My stating that fact doesn't make me a racist.

And yet even respected media outlets run alarmist headlines such as Robert Kennedy Jr’s racist, antisemitic and xenophobic views go back decades, report says.

The above article included the following, which is a classic use of logical fallacy (guilt by association) in order to persuade, i.e., propaganda:

Earlier this summer Kennedy touted a meeting with Ice Cube, a rapper who issued bizarre antisemitic tweets, and publicly defended musician Roger Waters, who was embroiled in controversy after donning a costume intended to evoke Nazi attire at a concert in Germany.

The report says Kennedy has also repeatedly promoted and praised fringe online broadcaster James Corbett, a Sandy Hook and 9/11 conspiracy theorist who has claimed that “Hitler and the Nazis were 100% completely and utterly set up”.

So this is in part how these orgs get away with it.

I have a feeling Trump might actually win, God help us. If it ends up being a Biden/Trump fiasco, it'll be a toss up. But for the orgs, it doesn't really matter who wins.