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Kenneth Felton's avatar

Gabbard is first and foremost a typical politician. The dem party has been far left for decades. She could never have been elected Hawaii's Senator as a republican. She couldn't go any further in the dem party, so she's striking out, looking for supporters. It seems obvious she's looking to get support from the Trump coalition. But she won't be successful as a republican or independent. The Trump coalition no longer believes in the republican establishment because they don't keep their promises or get results beneficial to America. They are neo-con war mongers. These endless wars only benefit the global plutocracy and the military/industrial complex. Wars make them fat and happy. They could care less about the countries they're destroying. Ukraine is just a massive money laundering scam. How much goes to the citizenry? Not much. The endless war advocates have left a trail of destruction for the last sixty years. They wasted American lives and tax payers treasure without ever intending to win. The innocent bystanders caught up in these foreign wars suffer the most. Just as the Southern invasion is destroying America the Muslim invasion is destroying Europe. That's all part of the globalists great reset.

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Gabbard's description of the Democrats an elitist cabal of warmongers echoes a bizarre claim by Tucker Carlson in one of his books that the Democrats peaked as an anti-war party when Michael Dukakis rode in the tank, then became a pro-war and pro-interventionist party during the Clinton Administration. This makes no sense. Bill Clinton sought every opportunity to turn his back on the world: withdrawing from Somalia and leaving children to starve because a soldier was dragged through the street on camera; refusing to stop the genocide in Rwanda, even avoiding the word genocide, then claiming years later that he did not understand what was happening at the time, even though the TV showed a literal red river; refusing to act in Bosnia, then pretending that a token NATO airstrike stopped the genocide when the real reason was that the Croatian army attacked; doing the least bit possible to retaliate for the Khobar Towers, Dar es Salaam, and Nairobi bombings; rolling over for the Chinese Communists; and letting Saddam Hussein play footsie with the gulf war armistice.

My operative thesis, which fits the facts but is short on direct evidence, is that Tucker Carlson is uneducated in a particular way: He fails to see himself as part of an American story, and America as part of a world story, so that the events of the world -- he was 24 when the media freaked out over Somalia -- appear to him as just disjointed news events. Bad stuff on TV gets in the way of his comfort, and gets in the way of what he sees as America's daily business. I think it is actually possible that he graduated high school and college not knowing American history, and knowing nothing of the cold war. By third-hand accounts he was an irreverent teenager -- he allegedly claimed in his high school yearbook that he was in the "Dan White" [double-murderer] society -- and may have picked up anti-American attitudes during his childhood in San Francisco, just as Trump marinated in them in Manhattan.

Maybe Tulsi Gabbard suffers from the same syndrome. Perhaps she joins the National Guard and serves in Iraq without understanding any of the history -- not just the background of the Gulf War, but America's role in World War II and the shaping of the liberal world order. Maybe she sees the world as a tabula rasa, so that her first and only response to bad stuff happening is to throw a temper tantrum. If Obama could claim that Americans liberated Auschwitz, that Austrians speak Austrian, and that Roosevelt and Hitler held a summit meeting during World War II, is it so hard to believe that Carlson and Gabbard do not know middle school history? Perhaps they are simply as ignorant as Trump but their better grooming and behavior prevents people from recognizing it. Perhaps they feel no national pride because in their ignorance they do not know there is anything to feel pride about.

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