The Undemocratic Democratic Party
In the past week, two influential former Democrats threw their support to the candidacy of Donald Trump for President, citing the dangers that the Democratic Party and its newly coronated standard bearer, Kamala Harris, pose to America’s democracy, as well as to world peace and security.
On August 23, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his Presidential campaign and pledged his support to Trump. This came after the Democratic Party, the party of his assassinated father and uncle, did everything it could do to thwart voters’ ability to cast their ballots for him, both in the party’s single-candidate non-primaries, and then in the general election. Kennedy’s move was followed on August 26 when former Democratic National Committee Vice Chair Tulsi Gabbard also endorsed Trump, citing his dedication to preventing wars and working for peace, as well as restoring and preserving civil liberties, objectives abandoned by the Democratic Party.
At a joint rally held with Trump in Phoenix on August 23, Kennedy called out the Democratic Party for what it has become, which is inherently and thoroughly undemocratic. The state media did its best to hide such a momentous occasion from your eyes, and belittled and attempted to discredit Kennedy when it mentioned him at all, so if you don’t know of the event or of Kennedy’s words, you might want to re-evaluate what sources you use for news since you’re being denied access to an entirely different perspective than is being fed you.
Perhaps the most poignant and relevant words uttered by Kennedy are these:
“The mainstream media was once the guardian of the First Amendment and democratic principles, and it’s joined this systemic attack on democracy. It also — the media — justifies their censorship on the grounds of combating misinformation. But governments and oppressors don’t censor lies. They don’t fear lies. They fear the truth. And that’s what they censor.”
Read those words and let them sink in, really sink in, and you have the essence of what is going on in this country now and since well before the election of Donald Trump — which the corrupt state media then, as now, worked feverishly to prevent — in 2016. The trend is now so well established and documented there is no doubt about it. I call it the state media since it works hand in glove not only with the Democratic Party, but with such key government institutions and centers of power as the FBI and the CIA. The media hold the key to whether democracy survives or perishes in this country, and as of this moment they have thrown in with the forces that wish to overturn democracy in favor of one-party authoritarianism.
Gabbard, a former four-term Congresswoman, highly placed DNC executive, 17-year veteran of the Hawaii Army National Guard, and former candidate for President, left the Democratic Party in 2022, also citing how the party has become anti-democratic, repressive of free speech, and a supporter of endless wars. Introduced by Trump at a conference of the National Guard Association of the United States in Detroit on August 26, Gabbard said she supported Trump since he opposes the endless wars the Democrats have come to support, and the kinds of dangers to civil liberties a Harris Presidency would pose.
“I am confident that his first task will be to do the work to walk us back from the brink of war,” she said. “We cannot be prosperous unless we are at peace. And we cannot live free as long as we have a government that is retaliating against its political opponents and undermining our civil liberties, weaponizing our very, our very institutions against those they deem as a threat. Kamala Harris has done this over the last three and a half years. She won’t hesitate to continue that if she is elected as President. President Trump has been their first and foremost target in this because they don’t want us, as voters, to even have the option to vote for him. I’ve been their most recent target, added to a secret domestic terror watch list after exposing the truth about what kind of dangers we would face if Kamala Harris is elected as President.”
I’ve never done this before, but I’m going to let both RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard tell you, in their own words, why they have come to support Trump. RFK Jr. lays out his case and details the ways in which the Democratic Party has changed and abandoned its earlier roots, and has become the un- and even anti-democratic party it now is. And Gabbard explains why she believes Trump will work to defuse ongoing wars and work for peace, and the dangers to our freedoms a Kamala Harris Presidency presents. There also are links to reportage on both presentations. Listen, read, or both.
Click on the image below to hear RFK Jr.’s own words. Be sure to turn on the sound. A good piece presenting and analyzing RFK Jr.’s endorsement speech in the Daily Mail is accessible with the link below the image.
Read Daily Mail piece on RFK Jr.’s speech
Click on the image below to hear Tulsi Gabbard’s own words. Below that is a link to the AP report on her endorsement of Trump.
Read AP piece on Tulsi Gabbard’s endorsement of Trump
Featured Image, RFK, Jr., screen shot from video of speech appearing on X @RealSaavedra, used under Fair Use.
RFK Jr. video link inage, X @RealSaavedra, used under Fair Use.
Tulsi Gabbard video link image, Carolyn Kaster, AP Photo, used under Fair Use.
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