You are right about the large number of independents. We certainly have become unhappy with our two main parties! We are ripe for change. Maybe Kennedy has changed, too, like I think Trump has. See, I like having two parties, so the People can always rally around a strong opposition party whose protest vote is strong enough to displace the one more-or-less in control when the People decide it's time. This keeps both parties trying to please everyone, and the Peeps stay in control, not the party establishments. So I would like to see populist outsiders like RFK and DJT change the two parties for the better (more responsive to what voters want at any given point in time) as opposed to running as third party candidates that tend to split the protest vote and leave the system unchanged. I don't know know if I'm describing this well, but regardless if the outsider RFK can change the Democrat Party for the better (or replace it!) more power to him, and you.