While many on this site and many on the left continue to saint Elizabeth Warren and beg her to run for president, Tusli Gabbard has further demonstrated why she should be the future of the Democratic Party.
Unlike Senator Warren, Gabbard has actually fought for this country and has continued to take courageous stands. She actually walks the walk, unlike Warren, who lets the medical device industry off the hook because of its presence in Massachusetts. As Steven Brill points out in
America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System , it is the medical device industry, not the insurance companies, who have soaring profits and who truly rip off Americans everyday.
Gabbard has recently caused a hubbub for her criticism of the administration's bizarre refusal to label ISIS as an Islamic terrorist group. While Gabbard has repeatedly said that we should not create a holy war, she thinks we should call a spade, a spade so we can understand and defeat the enemy.
In the modern orthodoxy of the Democratic Party, such a remark is blasphemy. The thought police have been out in full force and there has been a lot of discussion that Gabbard's once shining star has dimmed.
It is a sad commentary on the Democratic Party. In fact, what Congresswoman Gabbard said is exactly what the party needs to help return to the its roots as the party of FDR, Truman, and JFK. A realistic, clear eyed approach abroad and a government that works for its citizens.
Why? Because Gabbard is right. Much of the the philosophy and belief system of modern Islamisic terrorism is deeply rooted in the works of Sayyid Qutb. Qutb is of course, the godfather of modern Islamic terrorism and it is easy to see his anti Western, anti materialistic, violent approach in ISIS.
Gabbard is no hawk. She famously wrote a piece on Huff Po titled "Military Strike in Syria is a Mistake." In it, she clearly outlined why a strike would have served no core purpose for American interests.
She speaks with much credibility as combat veteran who has seen war with her own eyes.
No, I am not calling for a return for a party that white men dominate. Obviously Congresswoman Gabbard flies in the face of that notion.
With a world in turmoil, we would be well served to listen to the Congresswoman.
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