[Peace-discuss] TOTALLY done with Tulsi

[J.B. Nicholson]

https://on.rt.com/ad3j -- Helen Buyniski on "Tulsi Gabbard lost her political future 
& moral high ground with Biden-2020 endorsement"

Helen Buyniski wrote:

> Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race
> to endorse her ideological opposite, establishment darling Joe Biden. It's
> political suicide – for her, and for the idea of a progressive Democrat.
> 
> Gabbard's decision to bow out on Thursday may have made sense from an electoral
> perspective – with just two delegates from her native American Samoa, she wasn't
> exactly a serious challenger to the much-more-popular Biden or even Vermont
> Senator Bernie Sanders, whom she supported in the 2016 race. Also on rt.com What
> about ending endless wars? Tulsi Gabbard drops out of presidential race and backs
> ...Biden
> 
> Shut out of the primary debates by a Democratic Party establishment afraid she
> might do to the frontrunner what she had done to California Senator Kamala Harris,
> whose juggernaut campaign began taking on water after Gabbard exposed her heinous
> record live on stage, Gabbard had little hope of an eleventh-hour electoral
> rally.
> 
> But while swearing fealty to the presumed nominee may have scored her some points
> among her establishment critics, most had a clear ulterior motive, using her exit
> as further leverage to pressure Sanders to drop out.
> 
>     Even Tulsi Gabbard has the dignity to drop out and endorse Biden. Your move, @BernieSanders.
>     — Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) March 19, 2020
> 
> Many were quite open about dancing on her grave.
> 
>     It's Assad day for Tulsi Gabbard https://t.co/Qprjus2dXi
>     — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) March 19, 2020
> 
> At the same time, Gabbard's erstwhile supporters feel betrayed, and justifiably
> so. A candidate who built her campaign on opposition to the business-as-usual
> Democratic policies of cloaking foreign military intervention in humanitarian
> jargon, Gabbard instead called for taking the trillions spent on the slaughter and
> plunder of hopelessly-outmatched Middle Eastern nations and using that money to
> rebuild the crumbling American homeland. It was a message that resonated across
> the partisan divide, even attracting some disillusioned 2016 Trump supporters who
> had voted for the president based on his promise to end the endless wars in Syria
> and Afghanistan, then watched in horror as he stepped up the bombing and tried to
> open another front in Iran.
> 
> For the young Hawaiian to throw her support behind Biden – a man with nearly a
> 50-year track record of supporting Wall Street, the military-industrial complex,
> Big Pharma and the rest of the ruling establishment “because he has a good heart”
> is spitting in the face of the hundreds of thousands of supporters who have
> contributed to her campaign, made phone calls on her behalf, packed town halls,
> and otherwise poured their precious time and money into supporting a long-shot
> candidate.
> 
>     So Tulsi Gabbard endorses Biden? I have lost all respect for her.P.S. Don't drop out Bernie.#NeverBiden
>     — Margaret Kimberley (@freedomrideblog) March 19, 2020
> 
> It's no surprise they aren't taking it well. How are voters supposed to trust any
> future “progressive” candidates after such turncoat maneuvers from not only
> Gabbard but Sanders, who in 2016 turned on a dime to stump for establishment pick
> Hillary Clinton after a coterie of unelected superdelegates declared her the
> winner following a primary process which leaked emails revealed beyond a shadow of
> a doubt to be rigged? Gabbard's political seppuku should force progressive
> Democrats to come to terms with the fact that there is no room for reform within
> their party.
> 
> On the bright side, those same pundits who screamed themselves hoarse warning that
> Gabbard was working for Vladimir Putin to sow discord among the American
> electorate and swing the nation to Trump now have to quietly revise their
> apocalyptic visions. Will they admit the congresswoman is not the Russian wrecking
> ball they claimed she was, or will they carry the fantasy to the finish line and
> say Gabbard has infected Biden's campaign with Russian ‘malign influence’?