The wingnut welfare state pays very well, and there are few roles as lucrative as "Democrat who saw the light". I guarantee she's making more money now than she ever has in her life and more than ever could have hope to as a Representative.
Um, you skipped a few steps there. Her tension with the Democrats wasn't over anti-war. It was about her insistence that Obama label Islam an enemy of the United States. It was her friendship with Assad. It was her opposition to gay marriage. And all of that started bubbling up around the time Modi was elected in India, and we know she has a fondness for him. What happened was that she drank the Hindu nationalist kool-aid. It wasn't her positions against war.
All this with one exception. It's elitism. Racism is the primary and easiest manifestation to see but that's the same driver behind all the biases. It's inherent in the Protestant work ethic that defines a mindset honored by lukewarm or even nonbelievers.
Why is it a surprise that in order for a Republican to vote for a Democrat, the Democrat would have to be centrist like Manchin or Gabbard?
1. Manchin is something resembling a centrist. Gabbard is a bought-and-paid Russian asset.
Gabbard and Cheney are labeled that way because neither of them is afraid to call their own party out publicly. So they take a lot of criticism from their own side of the aisle and are high-profile in that sense.
Right. And therein lies the problem. For decades, democrats got criticized for being the dove party. Republicans are still the pro-military party, and folks in the military tend to run conservative. And yet, gtyellowjacket is claiming that too much military funding is, somehow, a reason that people are leaving the democrat party and voting for Trump. What in the ever-loving fuck?
It’s more akin to saying “I’d vote for a Republican for president if they nominated Pete Buttigieg.”
I’ve told you this before but you have a very warped view of where people sit on the spectrum. Likely because you are admittedly so far left.
Have you thought that you view him as a moderate due you your own warped view of the political spectrum?
Gabbard is and, then again, she also isn’t. Like Jill Stein, she is whoever, and whatever, the Russians need her to be.
Yeah I’ve thought about it. But then I remembered he’s a Democrat and was always the swing vote in a 50/50 Senate or whatever it was when he had so much power - evidence that he’s right in the dead center of American politics.
Now, saying he’s right in the middle of American politics is closer to the truth, but I’m of the belief that Manchin (and Gabbard) are right-wing even for American politics.
2nd Iraq war. Afghanistan for the 15 or so years after Al Qaeda was neutered there.
I think anyone who is committed to an ideology of religious extremism is pretty right wing. That was always her, even when she was a Dem in Congress.