If you’ve been distracted by Elon Musk setting Twitter (and Tesla) on fire, or by Trump’s latest tariff temper tantrum, you might’ve missed the rotting garbage pile that is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to “Make America Healthy.”

And trust me—the crap that he’s cooking in that pot is way worse than the smell.

When RFK Jr. was appointed as Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, we knew the future of healthcare would take a hard right. What we didn’t expect was how boldly dystopian his vision would be.

The same man who blamed food dyes for society’s collapse and spread anti-measles vaccine misinformation which resulted in the death of a 83 people in Samoa has continued to roll out his plan to "fix" addiction, autism, depression, and homelessness in America: forced labor.

In his presidential campaign documentary Recovering America, Kennedy lays out a plan that is nothing short of eugenicist rebranding. The concept? Americans with mental illnesses, addiction, or neurodivergence—people on SSRIs, Adderall, or living unhoused—should be “re-parented” by being sent to “wellness farms” where they’ll work, drug-free, tech-free, and for free until they “heal.”

A Misdiagnosis Repackaged as Natural Therapy

In Recovering America, RFK Jr. sets out to diagnose the sickness of modern America: hopelessness, homelessness, trauma, and addiction. And he’s not wrong about the symptoms—he’s just wildly off the mark about the cure.

Instead of housing, healthcare, or trauma-informed therapy, RFK prescribes a troubling vision: a national network of “wellness farms.” He romanticizes hundreds of labor farms where “clients” wake up early in the morning in a cellphone-free workplace where organic gardening and spiritual salvation collide. This “natural” solution for systemic despair, is staffed not by doctors, but by peers and overseers. 

It’s recovery without medicine. Therapy without therapists. And manual labor without pay.

He cites a rat experiment suggesting that loneliness fuels addiction more than drugs do. But his conclusion isn’t to build housing or restore social safety nets—it’s to remove people from society altogether and “re-parent” them through hard labor in newly developed wellness farms in the American south.

It’s bootstraps bootcamp—sold as healing.

During his interview with Amsterdam’s Rene Zegerius, the drug policy advisor for Amsterdam Public Health, Rene tells him how the Netherlands reduced homelessness through cross-sector collaboration—combining housing, medical care, and wraparound services.

Instead of engaging with the importance of affordable and free housing, RFK Jr. completely skips over that model entirely and instead, the documentary pivots straight to prison pipelines, linking mental illness and crime without unpacking the racist, carceral systems that created those connections in the first place.

A Dangerous History Will Repeat

While critics have compared RFK’s “healing farms” to Nazi labor camps and internment centers, this concept is deeply American. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, disabled people in the U.S. were sent to “feebleminded colonies”—farm-based institutions meant to “cure” them through labor. These colonies promised fresh air, clean living, and purpose.

Instead, they delivered forced labor, sexual abuse, mass sterilizations, and state-sanctioned eugenics.

RFK Jr.’s own rhetoric evokes this dark history. He’s claimed that autistic people “will never pay taxes,” “never write a poem,” and has pushed for an autism registry, which raises chilling concerns about surveillance and state control.

And while he insists these wellness farms would be voluntary, that promise dissolves under scrutiny. Under Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services—now overseen by RFK Jr.—it’s not hard to imagine marginalized people being coerced or court-mandated into these programs, the same way the Trump administration has kidnapped innocent students and family members without due process.

Wellness as a Rebrand for Work Camps

In the final segment of the documentary, RFK tours his preferred solution: a wellness farm devoid of licensed therapists or medical professionals, where participants stay for “as long as they need”—which could mean years. The only constants are farm work, meditation, group talks, and no medication.

In his own words, the goal is to teach them trades—baking, HVAC, electrical work—in exchange for their unpaid labor.

At scale, it’s a carceral-industrial scheme in disguise. Just like the Narco farm in 1930s Kentucky, where prisoners labored in rehab settings but relapsed at a rate of 90% after release, RFK Jr. is reviving a model that’s already failed.

The difference? Narco eventually pioneered methadone maintenance, a life-saving medical innovation that RFK now shuns in favor of kale, yoga, and “reconnection with soil.”

From Labor to Legacy: A Kennedy Rebrand

In the film, RFK Jr. rightly acknowledges that in 1963, President John F. Kennedy proposed a $3 billion mental health initiative—a visionary plan to replace abusive institutions with local, community-based care. But after JFK’s assassination, the system unraveled. The money was never fully appropriated. The centers were underbuilt. And as institutions closed, millions of Americans fell into a void with no safety net, ending up in prisons, shelters, and the streets.

RFK Jr. understands this history—and then weaponizes it. He uses his uncle’s failed dream as a jumping-off point to justify his own labor-farm revival, casting it as redemptive while ignoring the structural failures that made mental health care inaccessible in the first place.

This isn’t healing. It’s legacy cosplay, using Kennedy iconography to push a system that’s more punishment than care.

Welcome to the Kennedy Plantation

Yes, nature helps. Yes, community matters. Yes, diverse solutions are needed.

But what RFK Jr. is proposing is not healing. It’s repackaged punishment.
It’s eugenics in organic overalls. It’s organic fascism.

His vision of wellness is a cruel inversion of care designed to squeeze free labor out of all of us. It turns the most vulnerable Americans—disabled, addicted, neurodivergent, and unhoused—into a low-wage labor class, forced to toil in the name of “healing.”

This isn’t new. It’s a eugenicist fantasy wearing the mask of reform. And under a Trump administration that has already weaponized surveillance, cut social services, and leaned on prison labor, this plan doesn’t just raise red flags.

It’s a roadmap to fascist plantations.

And it’s already being drawn.

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Meet someone who shouldn’t need an introduction, Dr. Bernice A. King: a lawyer, legendary activist, and the youngest child of the late great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.

Though she comes from an iconic family, Dr. Bernice A. King has forged her own legacy as an activist with unshakeable morals and a consistent history of advocating for all marginalized communities.

I first encountered Dr. King’s work when she spoke favorably about Universal Basic Income in 2020. Given her late father’s support of a ‘Guaranteed Minimum Income,’ it came as a welcome surprise to hear her support for such an important idea.

But since then, I’ve found Dr. Bernice King on all the right sides of history: against militarism, in favor of eliminating poverty, a constant force of power against racism, and a compassionate voice against the violence happening to Palestinians.

If you haven’t already, be sure to follow Dr. King on Facebook and Instagram! She is constantly keeping her followers updated on the fight for justice in America.

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