Tulsi Gabbard

And that just continues and continues and continues on until they become someone who is unrecognizable and their priorities shift.

It is very easy for people to get sucked into the swamp in Washington.

And if people, and maybe this is not what they were looking for when they ran for office, but immediately you are treated like you are something special.

red carpets are rolled out, special access, VIP treatment, fancy parties, people kissing your ass every freaking day.

And if you are not firmly rooted in your purpose, that higher purpose of service to our country and to your constituents, to the American people,

I have seen how quickly people fall for that hype.

And it's just, it's crazy because it's all fake.

People only treat you special because they want something.

And the moment you leave, the moment you leave, you don't exist.

They don't care about you.

And this is, you know, I...

I'm grateful that I knew why I was running for Congress.

I mean, in a nutshell, it was those experiences that I had during my deployments.

And my eyes were opened in a way that I couldn't pretend, you know.

that those lessons that I had learned, experiencing the cost of war, seeing the war profiteering up close and personal, I left those deployments knowing that I wanted to be in a position to do something about it.

Because I was frustrated and pissed off by the politicians who would come in and drop in, and you know this, they drop in for a day, shake some hands, take some pictures and take off and go back to Washington.

talking about like, oh, I know exactly what's going on in the war.

I've been to war 20 times.

Like, bro, no, you don't.

You don't actually.