By Tulsi Gabbard
October 12, 2022:
Information Clearing House
--I love our country.
Our God-given rights of freedom, life, and
liberty enshrined in our Constitution and Bill
of Rights are my inspiration. I answered the
call to duty and took an oath, dedicating my
life to supporting and defending those freedoms,
both in uniform and in public office.
Growing up in Hawaii gave me a special
appreciation of our home, water, and precious
natural resources. So when I was 21 years old I
decided to run for Hawaii State House so that I
could be in a position to protect our
environment. I wasn’t politically affiliated
before that, but as I was about to file my
election papers, I had to choose which party to
affiliate with.
As I did my research, I was inspired by
Democrats who stood up against the war in
Vietnam, and those who fought for Hawaii’s
plantation workers who were being abused and
exploited by wealthy landowners. I was inspired
by leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and
Robert F. Kennedy and drawn to the ideals of a
big-tent Democratic Party that stood up for
working men and women — the little guy. In
contrast, the Republican Party seemed like one
that stood for the interests of big business and
warmongering elites. So I became a Democrat and
remained one for over 20 years — an independent
Democrat to be sure, but a Democrat
nonetheless.
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 enshrined in our
Constitution, are hostile to people of faith and
spirituality, demonize the police and 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, are dragging
us ever closer to nuclear war.
Here are some of the main reasons I’m leaving
the Democratic Party, in brief. I’ll be tackling
each of these in more depth in the coming weeks.
The pro-war Democratic Party has led
us to the brink of nuclear war. The
party is led by warmongers who are firmly in the
grips of the military industrial complex, and
don’t know or care about the cost of war, or who
pays the price. President Biden and
Democratic Party elite have pushed us to the
precipice of nuclear war, risking starting WWIII
and destroying the world as we know it.
This is the most urgent existential threat we
face. I ran for President in 2020 because I knew
that this is where we were headed. All the signs
were there. I raised this issue every day during
the campaign, and on the national debate
stage. But politicians and the media ignored it.
They didn’t care then, and they don’t care now.
Obviously I didn’t win that election, and don’t
have the power to do what is necessary to
prevent it. President Biden and Congress do. But
they irresponsibly refuse to use that power to
protect the safety of our country, the American
people, and the world from the devastation of a
nuclear holocaust. To protect our loved
ones, our children, our world, I’m calling upon
the American people to join me in standing up to
these cowardly politicians now. This
may be our last chance to do so.
Today’s Democratic Party rejects the
rule of law. The people’s trust in the
rule of law is the foundation for democracy. By
weaponizing the security state and
Federal law enforcement for their own
partisan political ambitions, Democrat leaders
are undermining the rule of law
and turning our democracy into a banana
republic. Across the country, Democrat
politicians call for defunding the police,
enacting laws that favor criminal’s rights over
those of everyday Americans, and so-called
progressive DA’s let violent criminals out of
jail, refusing to charge them when many have
been arrested 30, 40 or even 50 times. It should
come as no surprise that crime and murder rates
are rapidly increasing, people don’t feel safe
walking down the street in their own
neighborhoods, and firearm purchases for self
defense have drastically increased.
Under the Obama administration, the
IRS was used to target conservative groups.
Biden's DOJ recently indicted 11 pro-life
activists for "organizing an event blockading an
abortion clinic." They didn't use physical
force. They weren't dangerous. But seven of them
are facing 11 years in prison and fines of
$250,000. The Biden DOJ and Department of
Homeland Security has focused their newly formed
Domestic Terror Unit to target parents
who are vocally standing in opposition
to radical curriculums and explicit sexual
content being taught to young children in our
public schools – labeling parents as
“terrorists” for showing up at school board
meetings and demanding change. President Biden
campaigned on unity and on healing the partisan
divide, but he’s now saying supporters
of President Trump are the most extremist group
in our country and a threat to our
democracy. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris
claim the Supreme Court is illegitimate
simply because they disagree with its rulings.
The Biden administration stood by and did
nothing as activists protested outside the homes
of Supreme Court justices during all hours of
the day and night, in clear violation of federal
law. When the party in power does not
believe in the rule of law, yet they are
responsible for writing and enforcing laws, our
democracy is doomed.
Today’s Democratic Party does not
believe in our constitutionally protected right
to free speech. Fostering diversity of
thought and freedom of expression is the
foundation of any flourishing democracy.
Democratic Party leaders don’t agree. They are
led by fanatical ideologues who pose a threat to
our democracy because they don’t believe
in freedom — freedom of speech, freedom
of thought, freedom of religion. They try to
censor speech they don’t like,
labeling it as “misinformation,” “hate speech,”
or “violent speech.” They work hand-in-glove
with corporate for-profit media and Big Tech to
smear and silence political opponents and those
who dare to challenge their authority, exposing
their insecurities. The Biden Administration
even tried launching their own “Ministry of
Truth” to control what information we
are allowed to read, hear, and say.
Their ideology is one of hate and divisiveness,
rather than respect and love (aloha) and is
diametrically opposed to traditional
‘liberalism’ which recognizes the basic goodness
of people and the autonomy of the individual,
supporting civil liberties and a government of,
by, and for the people. How can a political
party that is opposed to freedom be trusted with
our democracy? They can’t be.
Today’s Democratic Party does not
believe in our constitutionally protected right
to freedom of religion. The
Constitution recognizes that our freedom
comes from God — not governments.
Unfortunately, Democratic Party leaders reject
this truth and are hostile toward people of
faith and spirituality, and actively
undermine our religious freedom. During
that 2020 Democratic National Convention, they
chose to omit the words “under God” from our
pledge of allegiance. High profile Democratic
leaders mock or openly discriminate against
people of faith, especially Christians.
President Obama once ridiculed Americans for
clinging to their guns and religion. Vice
President Kamala Harris, as a senator in 2018,
remarked that being a member of the Catholic
charity organization, the Knights of
Columbus, disqualified Brian Buescher from
serving as a federal judge. Senator Dianne
Feinstein derided now Justice Amy Coney Barrett,
a devout Catholic, during a Senate confirmation
hearing, stating that “the dogma lives loudly
within you.” Article 6, Section 3 of the
Constitution states “no
religious test shall ever be required as a
Qualification to any Office or public Trust
under the United States.”
Today’s Democratic party has forgotten that
freedom of religion does not mean freedom
from religion. Government must respect
every American’s deeply personal relationship
with God, and our freedom to express and
practice that faith without fear of
state-sponsored reprisal, censorship or
discrimination. Whether one believes in God or
not is not the point. Any political party that
is trying to erase the presence of God from
every facet of public life and is hostile toward
those who choose to worship God, cannot be
trusted to protect our inalienable God-given
rights enshrined in the Constitution and should
not be in power.
Today’s Democratic Party does not
believe in our constitutionally protected right
to bear arms. Our founders passed the
Second Amendment out of a recognition that
every one of us has a right to defend
ourselves and our loved ones, and to
serve as a check on a tyrannical government
seeking to take away our God-given freedoms. The
Democratic Party’s hatred of the Second
Amendment and their increasing authoritarian
instincts pose a serious threat to our freedoms.
"Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your
AK-47,” Beto O'Rourke said at a debate when he
was running for president. Our founders
intentionally passed the Second Amendment right
after the First Amendment. The majority ruling
from the recent Supreme Court ruling striking
down New York’s law that barred people from
concealed carry firearms summarized very clearly
why Democrats are wrong to try to take away our
rights: “Just as we
do not need to seek a permit to stand on the
street corner and exercise our right to free
speech, we shouldn’t have to seek permission for
a law abiding citizen to carry their firearm. We
as a society don’t get to pick and choose which
of our rights in the constitution are more
worthy of protecting than another.”
Protecting our freedom to defend ourselves and
those we love, and protecting our rights and
freedoms enshrined in the Constitution against a
tyrannical power is exactly why we must ensure
our right to bear arms “shall not be infringed.”
Today’s Democratic Party is ‘Big
Brother’ undermining our civil liberties:
The Fourth Amendment of the
constitution ensures ‘the right of [the
American] people to be secure in their
persons, houses, papers, and effects, against
unreasonable searches and seizures.’ Democratic
elite Party leaders have had many opportunities
to get rid of unconstitutional provisions of the
Patriot Act that violate our civil liberties — I
introduced legislation while in Congress that
would repeal the Patriot Act and address the
dangerous FISA act being used to undermine our
civil liberties, especially those protected by
the Fourth Amendment. Every time, they
choose the security state over our liberty.
Whether it’s using the IRS to snoop into our
bank accounts for sending someone over $600 via
Venmo, supporting the corrupt system of civil
forfeiture to seize property from law-abiding
Americans who have not even been charged with a
crime, or getting credit card companies to keep
track of any and all firearm and ammunition
related purchases, today’s Democratic
Party stands with giving ‘Big Brother’ more
power and control over our lives.
Today’s Democratic Party racializes
everything and blatantly foments anti-white
racism. The Democratic machine has
betrayed Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream of a
nation where we are judged based on the content
of our character rather than the color of our
skin. In their blind pursuit of power, Democrat
leaders reduce each of us as God’s
children to the color of our skin,
using identity politics to tear us apart for
their own political gain. Democrats were silent
in the face of Chicago’s Mayor Lightfoot’s
blatantly racist policy of only accepting
interviews with reporters of color because she
was struck with the "overwhelming whiteness and
maleness." Modern day segregation in schools is
promoted by racial profiteers like Robin
DiAngelo and the corrupt self-identified
cultural Marxists who lead Black Lives Matter.
Today’s Democratic party embraces and celebrates
their racist agenda. They support programs that
teach children that they are either ‘the
privileged’ or ‘the victims,’ oppressors or the
oppressed, solely because of the color of their
skin. They’ve become the racists they claim to
hate.
Today’s Democratic Party is
anti-woman. There’s no greater
expression of hatred and hostility toward women
than to erase the existence of women as a
category of people. The Democratic Party has
long claimed to be champions of women, proud of
Title IX and leveling the playing field for
women and girls. But now, the Biden
Administration and Democratic Party are spitting
in the face of these achievements by rejecting
the objective truth that women exist and are not
just a construct in a person’s mind. They can no
longer define what a woman is, demand we replace
words like “mother” with “birthing person,” and
place women at risk to please biological men who
claim to be women at any given moment. They are
taking away the opportunities and futures of
women in sports by allowing transgender
athletes, who until recently identified as men,
and who have the biological advantages of men,
to compete against women. The Biden
administration is quietly trying to change Title
IX through a back-door rule change that would
remove women and biological sex from the Title
IX statute, taking away opportunities for
millions of female athletes across the country.
They now go so far as to claim it is ‘sexual
harassment’ to address someone by the wrong
pronouns, trying to force us to comply with this
insanity by regulating our speech and thought.
By denying that there are biological
differences between men and women, they are
erasing women and denying the existence of
objective truth. If one denies the
existence of truth, there are no boundaries in
our society and the truth becomes whatever those
in power want it to be.
Today’s Democratic Party is
undermining families. Families are the
bedrock of civilization. Today’s Democratic
Party does not recognize this truth and the
importance of the central foundational role that
families play in our society and civilization.
They want to strip away the rights of
parents to raise their kids, claiming
the government knows what’s better for your
children than you do. Former Democratic Governor
Terry McAuliffe said last year that there is no
role for parents in determining a school’s
curriculum. The largest teacher’s union in the
country and one of the Democratic Party’s
biggest donors, the National Education
Association, recently passed a resolution that
endorses the teaching of Critical Race Theory in
classrooms across the country. Public school
districts are implementing policies that
sexualize kids as young as five or six years
old. Taxpayer dollars are used to bring in drag
strippers and encourage gender transition
surgery in minors – all kept secret from their
parents. HHS secretary Rachel Levine says young
children should be empowered to get
“gender-affirmation treatment,” which involves
puberty blockers, chemical castration, and
irreversible surgeries causing long-term harm to
children. If parents do not comply, the Federal
government threatens to take your children away.
Families are the foundation of civilization and
our society, and today’s Democratic Party’s
policies are quickly eroding that foundation to
the detriment of us all.
I look forward to tackling each of these
issues in more depth in the coming weeks.
I believe in a government that is of the
people, by the people, and for the people.
Unfortunately, today’s Democratic Party does
not. Instead, it stands for a government of, by,
and for the powerful elite.
Let’s remember the ideals our founders laid
out for us. Draw inspiration from their hopes
for this country, and take action to actually
bring about a government that is truly of, by,
and for the people.
So today, I’m 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 so-called
woke Democratic Party ideologues are taking our
country, I invite you to join me.
Tulsi Gabbard is an American politician,
United States Army Reserve officer and political
commentator who served as the U.S.
representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional
district from 2013 to 2021. Gabbard was the
first Hindu member of Congress and also the
first Samoan-American voting member of Congress.
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