Posted on 10/11/2022 5:35:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
. Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard announced she is leaving the Democratic Party, denouncing lawmakers on the Left for promoting policies that “[racialize] every issue & stoke anti-white racism.”
In a video announcement released on Tuesday, Gabbard called on other members of the party to abandon the Democratic Party, accusing the Left of only protecting the “powerful elite.” It’s not clear what party Gabbard plans to join next or if she intends to remain independent.
“I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith & spirituality, demonize the police & protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to nuclear war,” Gabbard said. “If you can no longer stomach the direction that so-called woke Democratic Party ideologues are taking our country, I invite you to join me.”
Gabbard, a one-time presidential hopeful for the Democratic Party, retired from the House in 2021. Since then, the former Hawaii representative has been publicly critical of the party, particularly toward President Joe Biden.
“I believe in a government that is of, by, and for the people. Unfortunately, today’s Democratic Party does not. Instead, it stands for a government of, by, and for the powerful elite,” Gabbard said. “I’m calling on my fellow common sense independent-minded Democrats to join me in leaving the Democratic Party.”
I doubt that, she is a socialist, plus the warmongering neocons in the GOP would not accept her. She’s better off being an Independent.
And, as far as I know, she still wants to kill babies. But other than that, she’s OK.
“. . . will never trust what is lurking beneath.”
Agreed
Most folks take their heads out of their asses by about 10 yo.
Ms Tulsi is very late to the party.
Guess she sees the future, Dems getting whacked.
So, be “Independent” and caucus with with the Pubes to grab some power.
Maybe, but I think that's because she hasn't been is a position where they have been put to the test when in Congress.
And Gabbard had to take on the persona of an "outsider" during the Presidential primaries to have any chance of winning, which IMHO, meant adopting the "Bill Clinton/Barak Obama for primaries only centrist" persona.
Bump! I'll take Tulsi over any neocon.
Tru dat
The democrats have been this way for a decade at least.
and abortion
Funny she always voted with the rats and rubber stamped everything the botox queen and the veggie wanted! I never heard or saw her buck against the majority wishes! Sounds like she is in panic mode to save her future butt!! She is like little Girl Graham all talk and no action! She is a traitor and cannot be trusted! Do not let her in the party she has not earned the right!
Now if only 10% of republicans were so motivated to denounce the democrats
She did what Liz would have done, if she had any integrity. She was the star of the Democrat presidential debates as far as I was concerned. She was the only one on stage that I thought could garner enough independent votes to defeat Trump.
I still believe that. i.e. they had to cheat mightily to get Biden in.
I just loved how Tulsi destroyed cameltoe in the Rats debate. She took out Harris over her (Harris’s) hypocrisy it was a beautiful thing to watch. Harris never recovered.
Tulsi is terrible on domestic policy, she’s a gun grabbing socialist but she great on foreign policy. She opposes US interventionism.
Well, she’s not wrong.
Yep. Sanders is left of the “normal” D party. She’s right of it.
I don’t think so. IMO, Sanders is over and done.
Ditto.
She was the most sane of the bunch.
Wonder where she will land.
Well, finally.
[[“I believe in a government that is of, by, and for the people]]
Except,when it comes es to allowing citizens to own guns, or get abortions, or pay throughmthe nose for climate change regulations etc... then she believes in a govenrment “over the people”
She may have seen a little bit of light, but she is still blind to the fact that most of what she believes is anti-citizen, anti-country, anti-family, anti-christian. She still espouses the evil doctrines of the left in many instances.
If however liberals were more like,her, we might actually have a tewo party system that could,from time to time work together with liberals conceedignmtheir hardline liberal agenda for,the betterment of the country, even if they disagree with ohr side on some points. But today’s liberals are so,far entrenched in a demonic anti-country, anti-freedom agenda that there is no way they will ever compromise for the good of the nation.
I t3nd to agree. Sinema at least bucked her party several times on key issues- and she didn’t back down when the heat was applied either- I don’t recall Tulsa ever doing so
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