Tulsi Gabbard

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.

Don't pay attention to what's really going on.

Don't pay attention to what they're saying or what their record is or what they're promising that they will do.

Vote blue no matter who.

Us good guys, them bad guys.

We have to recognize the responsibility that comes with being a citizen of the greatest country in the world.

It's our responsibility.

And if we go back and we read our founding documents, we are reminded of that responsibility, that our government only exists with the consent of the governed.

So if we don't like the abuse of power that's taking place, if we don't like the corruption that's taking place, we got to do something about it.

There's no single politician that's going to come and ride in on a white horse and fix everything.