Tulsi Gabbard

I think people do care.

And, you know, even if it's about... People will say, well, I don't do politics.

I don't pay attention to politics.

But ultimately...

You know, you care about your family, you care about the place that you live, high cost of living, high interest rates, you know, crime.

I mean, there are basic things in our everyday lives, you know, is the trash getting picked up that people do care about?

Well, those things and people that we care about, like that is directly connected to

those who hold public office, county, state, federal level, across the board.

We have to turn that care into action.

I mean, that's really what it comes down to.

And

It can be done, and it has been done, where people who are very rich and very powerful have been removed from office when we care enough to take action to do so.

If we cede our power by saying, like...

could never beat that person in an election, why even bother?

Then yeah, of course, they're gonna stay in power.

And so you look at how much of our politics, for example, is just us versus them.

And this is one of the mantras that drove me crazy when I was in the Democratic Party, especially as vice chair of the DNC.

I'd go to a lot of these different Democratic Party events in different parts of the country.

And I often heard this mantra repeated over and over, vote blue no matter who.

telling people, turn off your brain.