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Gabbard should have done this years ago, but it is better late than never.

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… pic.twitter.com/oAuTnxZldf

— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) October 11, 2022

Thank you for speaking the truth, Tulsi.

Now, let’s take a look at a Newsweek write-up on Gabbard’s decision.

Gabbard, who unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in the 2020 election, made the announcement in a video posted on Twitter, in which she accused the Democrats of stoking “anti-white racism,” and “dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.”

The upper echelon of the ruling Democrats is not for or against an individual based solely on his or her skin color. The only thing that matters is class and how much money and power an individual has. There is no real support for Black Lives Matter or less radical groups. It is simply a tool for diversion and control.

The same principle applies to Republicans, including so-called MAGA Republicans. Each group or rather faction of the ruling political class has its own social, political, and economic schtick to attract different elements of a culturally diverse nation. Overall effectiveness hinges on slightly different approaches pushing the same basic neoliberal doctrine.

The vast majority of Congress and the political class can be said to be almost exclusively upper middle class to mega-wealthy.

Meanwhile, the vast majority of America has slipped into the lower middle class, what used to be called the working class. Millions more are living in poverty where there is growing childhood malnutrition and widespread violence. The Democrat elite lies when they say they are champions of the poor and downtrodden. Both Democrats and Republicans—essentially a uni-party representing corporate and banking interests—pay lip service and deliver crumbs to the vast majority of America as it is pushed deeper into poverty.

On the topic of war, Democrats have shown, especially in regard to Ukraine, they are quite frankly dangerously insane.

Historians and high school history teachers say liberal Democrats are traditionally antiwar, citing the countercultural values of the 1960s resistance to the Vietnam War.

All of that is nonsense. Democrat Truman used two atomic bombs on Japanese civilians. Democrat Kennedy sent advisers to Vietnam (following the failures of French colonialism in SE Asia). Johnson escalated Vietnam. Carter set the stage for Afghanistan and the Mujahideen that would splinter into al-Qaeda. All these Democrats were staunch “anti-communists,” especially JFK.

Clinton and NATO bombed an Eastern European country for over seventy days. Clinton also killed civilians with cruise missiles in Iraq and bombed a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan. Obama and Clinton’s wife along with NATO bombed Libya, where 30,000 died, and fueled horrific violence in Syria in an attempt to overthrow Bashar al-Assad.

Now comes the Democrat Biden and the war in Ukraine.

This is not to say political class Republicans are peaceniks. Nixon escalated Johnson’s escalation in Vietnam and spread the bloodshed and horror into Laos and Cambodia, the latter so destabilized it ended up with Pol Pot and around a third of the population butchered.

Reagan illegally supported a terrorist group in violation of the Bolan Act. He sent warships to flatten villages in the mountains of Lebanon. His warplanes killed the adopted daughter of Moammar Gadaffi, a fate Moammar would later suffer himself for the mistake of taking the USG at its word.

And, finally, the George Bushes, father, and son, instigators of two wars on one country, Iraq, with a long and inhumanely punishing sanctions regime in between, enforced by Clinton.

The corporate media is rife with lies about Russia and nuclear war. Russia has said it will resort to nuclear weapons if its existence is threatened. Vladimir Putin did not say he will use nukes in what’s left of Ukraine.

Now that Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk have voted to join the Russian Federation, any attacks on the Donbas will be considered an attack on Russia proper.

It really was the only way to stop the mass murder of ethnic Russians in Ukraine committed by Nazi-leaning ultranationalists. They have bombed and attacked fellow Ukrainians of Russian ethnicity since 2014 and the illegal USG coup that deposed the elected leader of the country. The people of Donetsk have pleaded for help for years, only to be ignored by the “democratic” “international community” of neoliberal captured governments.

Yes, Democrats should be outraged about war. Short of self-defense, it is never acceptable. But the problem here is that they are only selectively outraged, as directed by the elders of the Democrat faction of the USG Uniparty. Loyal Democrats did not complain when their hero Obama ramped up the illegal drone war (extrajudicially killing Americans, in addition to foreigners) and put together the unwarranted war that turned Libya from the most advanced country in Africa into a violent slave market.

As you may have noticed, I am not linking anything here. I have done that hundreds of times since nine eleven.

Most of what I said above is historical fact. It can be researched. If you believe I am a “conspiracy theorist,” I dare you to check out the facts, that is if you can get an accurate read with the new search engine ranking algorithms that require a deep drill, extra work, creative search criteria, and often dead ends where there was not before. I count the loss of a stellar research database, the History Commons, in the “misinformation” reshuffle of reality.

It is difficult not to be cynical. There is literally next to no opposition to this war, only angry rhetoric and cartoonish representations of Putin, and half-ass prayers for the victims of Ukraine on social media where the most outrageous and transparent lies become memes with grade school level insults hurled about, thus keeping the division alive as the world economy begins to take on water and a nuclear WWIII seems all but inevitable.

Newsweek knows there are murderous Nazi goons in Ukraine. It has reported as much. The liberal alternative press has posted a long list of articles on the Nazi problem in Ukraine. Do you hear about that now? How it just might have something to do with what is now going on?

No, you hear crickets.

Tulsi:

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, 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.

All very true—and will get her forever marked as a “conservative Republican,” and thus easily tossed around in the divisive political game that has gone into hyperspace since covid.

Finally, Gabbard is calling for Democrats with any shred of human dignity left—there are sadly few—to leave the party. This can be ignored—especially if it does not pick up any traction.

It just might. I hope it does.

I think the German psychologist and socialist Wilhelm Reich was correct when he observed in his largely unknown little book, “Listen, Little Man,” that the average person would rather leave the dirty work to the political psychopaths and remain blissfully unaware of the crimes committed in their names.

“I believe in a government that is of, by, and for the people,” she said. “Unfortunately, today’s Democratic Party does not. Instead, it stands for a government of, by, and for the powerful elite. I’m calling on my fellow common sense independent-minded Democrats to join me in leaving the Democratic Party.”

I hope you can, Tulsi. But again, I am by nature a cynic, especially in regard to the state and war.

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Kurt Nimmo writes on Kurt Nimmo on Geopolitics where this article was originally published. He is a regular contributor to Global Research. 

Featured image: U.S. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard speaking with attendees at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention at the George R. Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California. Credit: Gage Skidmore/ Flickr)