Tulsi Gabbard, the Republican?

Topic: Perspective

In case you missed the news, Tulsi Gabbard is no longer a member of the formal Army of Darkness, the Democrat Party.  The former U.S. congresswoman from Hawaii, who is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, has long been hated by rank-and-file Democrats, just as most conservative Republicans revile Lisa Murkowski, or the soon-to-be former Senator Ben Sasse.

This is not because she isn’t ideologically aligned with much of the party agenda.  After all, she would have never been a member to begin with if there wasn’t at least some commonality.  She is certainly sympathetic to and supportive of socialistic viewpoints and is not as hardcore traditional on social views as some wings of the left believe.

The machine hates Tulsi Gabbard because Tulsi Gabbard hates one of the most powerful mechanisms of the permanent bureaucracy – the military industrial complex.  Truly, no one can identify the waste and brokenness of modern-day military operations like a post-9/11 veteran with service in Iraq or Afghanistan can.  I have outlined this sentiment on numerous occasions.  Decades of failure, loss of life, depreciation of the national morale, and weakness on the global stage all stem from our disastrous involvement in these distant rockpiles, or jungles from decades past.