Tulsi Gabbard, former Congresswoman from Hawaii and 2020 presidential candidate has recently announced her departure from the Democratic Party stating she has to leave as the party is “under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers who are driven by cowardly wokeness”.
She said, “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 and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith and 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, who served as a Democrat in the House from 2013 to the end of 2020, said in a video statement that her now former party is “stoking anti-white racism”, undermining constitutional freedoms and is “hostile to people of faith and spirituality”.
Democrats “demonize the police but protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans”, she said. “And above all, [Democrats] are dragging us ever closer to nuclear war. I believe in a government that’s of the people, by the people and for the people. Unfortunately, today’s Democratic party does not.
“Instead, it stands for a government that is of, by and for the powerful elite. I am calling on my fellow, common-sense, independent-minded Democrats to join me in leaving the Democratic party. If you can no longer stomach the direction that the so-called woke Democratic party ideologues are taking our country, then I invite you to join me”.
Tulsi Gabbard, who ran an unsuccessful White House campaign in the 2020 Democratic Primary, has repeatedly criticized her former party, including President Biden for escalating tensions with Moscow.
Over the weekend she slammed the Biden administration for not caring “about the American people”.
“Permanent Washington loots us to serve the interests of the arms-manufacturing global oligarchy while we struggle to pay for gas/food/rent and our soldiers go on food stamps”, the former congresswoman tweeted.
In February, Gabbard appeared at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC), the largest organizing conservative conference in the world.
It’s unclear where she’ll go next, as Gabbard has long been on the fringe of American politics and has been criticized for her closeness with Russia.
She was criticized by members of the Republican party, including Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) and Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), earlier this year for spreading Russian misinformation about US biolabs in Ukraine.
Here are some reactions from the social media on Tulsi Gabbard’s announcement:
Jennifer: As a Democrat I am sorry to see her go, I have much respect for her. I myself do not all things in my Democratic party but I chose to stay and try to change the things I do not like. Best of luck to her in all she chooses to do.
Eric: She was way too hot to be a Democrat anyways.
Russ: She became a Democrat when it suited her, yet nobody believed her so naturally she took the gift as far as she could before switching back to the Republican party. Its like Bernie Sanders complaining that nobody took him seriously as a Democrat (he switched just to run for president in 2015), only to switch back to being an Independent.
Harris: Tulsi Gabbard was the ONLY rational and intelligent Democrat. Now that she is no longer a Democrat, the Democrat party is nothing but a group of irrational intellectually bankrupt racists and fascists.
Jayson: Who was President when we were in the Cold War? Reagan. Who gave guns to the Afghanistan? Reagan. Who was President during Desert Storm? Bush. Who was President when we went to war with Afghanistan and they were using the guns we gave them to fight us? Bush Jr. Who invaded Iraq? Bush Jr. She is delusional. Fits right in the Republican Party.
Keith: Hopefully, she’ll join Andrew Yang’s Forward Party. Formed with dissatisfied moderate Dems & Reps.
Anthony: Military/industrial complexes need elitist cabal warmongers in order to thrive. But which political party provides the most jingoists, historically? If you leave the lesser of two evils, the greater evil is the only place left to go. Unless you go rogue.
