Op-ed: 

Socialism, Commonalities, and Lessons Not Learned 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google 

 

 ...This is the true wish of today's Democrat party and those who are now doing her bidding, for not only has the groundwork already been laid by the likes of Fidel Castro and Barack Obama...the president whose deepest wish was to “fundamentally transform America” into a socialist nation...but now sees the torch being passed to Zohran Mamdani, the first outwardly socialist mayor-elect of New York City, with others like him waiting and salivating in the wings.

 

But what is most unsettling of all in this shoved down our throats socialist discourse is the fact that we as a nation have willingly allowed not only history to repeat itself, but that we sat back and watched those nations currently embracing socialism being on the precipice of abject failure. Is this what we truly want for our beloved America...is this what we are slowly allowing to happen here? Unless we stop this Democrat initiated socialist movement while it's still somewhat in its infancy stage ...unless tangible actions are taken now to do so...what is the Democrats push towards socialism could well morph into Lenin's truth of socialism being but a step towards communism...Read entire article here.   

Op-ed: 

Socialism, Commonalities, and Lessons Not Learned 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google    

“The goal of Socialism is Communism.”                         - Vladimir Lenin, revolutionary founder of the Russian Communist Party (the Bolsheviks), and first head of the Soviet Union (USSR).

Three men...one was a true dictator in every sense of the word; one worked for eight long years to “transform” and undermine the very country he was elected to serve and protect; and the last is but a whiny little “nepo baby” who has never held what amounts to a real job in his life, and who now is knowingly and willingly planning for America's largest city's ultimate demise.

Three men from different walks of life, and yet they are three men whose backgrounds share two key commonalities...commonalities overlooked by those caught up in the hype and vitriol that these men surely spewed.

So what exactly allowed these three men...Fidel Castro, Barack Obama, and now Zohran Mamdani...to become the political powerhouses and amass the power that they did? First, all three men shared not only a deep seated inner quest for power coupled with an all-consuming need for control, but also saw the ground work for what became both their political beginnings and their political legacies being born while they were students in college.

And second, these men also developed and then nurtured what was their charismatic personalities while in college. And it was via charisma alone...as in their ability to attract, charm, influence, and inspire others through what the public deemed to be their personal appeal (physical appeal included) along with their shared excellent communication skills...that helped these three men negate what should have been the people's use of simple “common sense.”

And even if their respective supporters had but a mere semblance of “common sense,” coupled with what is the logical “cause and effect” reality of what were but three cleverly crafted, and ever so infamous political facades, these three men might never have gained the power that they did...or in Mamdani's case the power that he will have come this January 1st...or caused the seemingly unfixable damage that they did.

So let's briefly start with Fidel Castro, and while not an American, he and his successors have been a thorn in America's side for decades. And like Obama and Mamdani, Castro's political involvement begin while a student at the University of Havana, where he participated in “resistance movements” while becoming a lawyer. Running unsuccessfully for office before Batista's 1952 military coup, Castro rose to power via a “guerrilla campaign”...a campaign promising the people everything, albeit socialist style. And when he overthrew Batista in 1959, Castro, was not only deeply entrenched in communist ideologies, but was a communist dictator sitting but 90 miles off America's shores. And when his brother Raul succeeded him, President Obama sought to normalize diplomatic relations with now communist Cuba.

Also briefly, the second man in this “trio of infamy” is none other than Barack Hussein Obama himself, the man who not only became involved in politics while in college, but who joined a number of Black Student organizations, and took part in anti-apartheid activities. After college and law school, Barack Obama became a “community organizer;” was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996; became a U.S. senator in 2005; then sashayed himself into the national spotlight when in 2004 he delivering the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention where Bill Clinton was nominated. And while basking in his new found media fame, Obama was “anointed” as America's first black president* in 2008, and again in 2012.

And lastly, the third man who also became politically involved as a college student is “proud” Democrat Socialist (read communist here) Zohran Mamdani who not only co-founded his college's chapter of the “Students for Justice in Palestine...the very organization behind almost all the anti-Israel protests on U.S. college campuses...while also advocating for academic and cultural boycotts of Israel (BDS). After graduation, Mamdani took an active part in numerous nationally recognized progressive organizations before he became a New York assembly man; and now the first muslim and socialist elected mayor of New York City. Guess foolish New Yorkers learned nothing from the disaster that has become London.

Three dangerous men...Fidel Castro, Barack Obama, and Zohran Mamdani... three men sharing the same socialist and to some degree communist ideologies...with Castro's reign having crossed over into outright communism, and with some of Mamdani's upcoming plans for New York City coming pretty damn close as well.

And while Barack Obama did not officially cross the Communist line in his two terms as president, not to be forgotten is that as a “community organizer” Obama worked closely with avowed socialists whose backgrounds encompassed both the Communist Party itself and/or what is referred to as “independent Marxists.” Also, know that the “Communist Party USA” campaigned for Obama during his successful 2004 Illinois Senate race, and supported, albeit somewhat quietly, his two presidential runs, and considered him “a friend to the party” while he was in office.

Socialism and communism were deep seated ideologies locked within the consciousness of these three men while in college, Three men who when assuming power continued to promise the people any and everything while in reality delivered nothing but chaos, failed economic policies...in Mamdani's case soon to come failed policies...coupled with law and order run amok.

And their actions were all overseen courtesy of a not so veiled demigod hand of sorts while their personal pockets continued to overflow with monies garnered off the misery of those who sold their souls for, in Obama and Mamdani's case, a continuing generational “free ride;” while in Castro's case the Cuban people bought into his now communist regime's attempt at “forced equalization” of what was then deemed to be a lack of a true “middle class.” Remember, Cuba under Batista was basically but not fully a two class system...one was either wealthy or one was poor with a small middle class existing in pockets scattered here and there to become nonexistent once Castro assumed power.

Three men who not only capitalized on and cleverly manipulated the support of their respective public to gain power, but three men whose commonality was not only a shared applauding of taking from the rich to give to and subsidize those who count on making more money by “being poor for a living” then by actually working, but people whose continuing support these men then could count on as long as they held on to the reigns of political power. And how did Castro and Obama accomplish this...how does Mamdani hope to accomplish this...simply by embraced the time proven old adage that “no one will bite the hand of those who feeds, houses, and clothes them.”

Simply, while Fidel Castro embraced socialism at first and moved very swiftly on to in-your-face communism; Barack Obama pretended to be a Democrat with some socialist leanings while maintaining friendships and close ties to the Communist Party USA; while Zohran Mamdani continues claiming that he remains a loyal and very proud “Democrat Socialist” when in reality he's nursing future presidential aspirations as his ego has now fully embraced the idea that he has become the left's poster boy, and seemingly best chance for their socialist America dream to come true.

And while all three men did openly embrace varying degrees of socialism while in college, the fact remains that socialism, when left to its own devices, either tends to outright fail or morph into that which is akin to outright communism, but without the actual c-word being attached to it. Such is the future, I believe, that Mamdani has planned for New York City as he and his socialist driven team works to make the “Big Apple” ground zero from which socialism can then start to spread outward nation wide...spread to the point where both state and class distinctions become but a thing of the past.

“Socialism is but a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.”                                - British Conservative Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill

And so serious has Mamdani's spewed socialist rhetoric been taken by Republicans and conservatives alike, that Mamdani's self-professed political identity...an identity who desires to become but a socialist “demigod” of sorts...has now drawn direct comparisons to Fidel Castro's once socialist dream morphing into but another communist dictatorship, especially with knowing history's proven fact that socialism is but the transitional phase between capitalism and communism. And for this reason alone, last month we saw House Republicans passing a resolution condemning what they rightfully called the “horrors of socialism,” while they listed Fidel Castro among other “socialist ideologues,” in a move seen by the far left as a “political jab” at Mamdani's so-called rising political profile.

But know this was no mere Republican “political jab” against one person or even the Democrat party itself, but was an all out warning to “We the People” regarding what the far left had not only been planning all along, but had already started implementing, as in our beloved America becoming a socialist nation with abject communism not a future impossibility.

In fact, this very scenario can be witnessed by not just the growing socialist movement now embracing certain “blue” areas of our country today, but by us seeing an overall nationwide increase in anti-government protests replete with community based organizing...shades of Obama come quickly and ominously to mind. 

And what must not be forgotten, simply downplayed, or even deliberately lost within all the political rhetoric now being spewed, is the fact that socialism always seems to morph into poverty coupled with political repression in what then becomes what is a totally classless and stateless society endlessly adrift on a boat sadly going nowhere.

This is the true wish of today's Democrat party and those who are now doing her bidding, for not only has the groundwork already been laid by the likes of Fidel Castro and Barack Obama...the president whose deepest wish was to “fundamentally transform America” into a socialist nation...but now sees the torch being passed to Zohran Mamdani, the first outwardly socialist mayor-elect of New York City, with others like him waiting and salivating in the wings.

But what is most unsettling of all in this shoved down our throats socialist discourse is the fact that we as a nation have willingly allowed not only history to repeat itself, but that we sat back and watched those nations currently embracing socialism being on the precipice of abject failure. Is this what we truly want for our beloved America...is this what we are slowly allowing to happen here? Unless we stop this Democrat initiated socialist movement while it's still somewhat in its infancy stage ...unless tangible actions are taken now to do so...what is the Democrats push towards socialism could well morph into Lenin's truth of socialism being but a step towards communism.

Fidel Castro knew this truth and succeeded...Obama knew it but thankfully failed...Zohran Mamdani knows it as well, but in today's America seemingly being driven by actions of hate and violence, Mamdani, or someone like him, could succeed where Obama failed. Just something to think about as commonalities shared do tend to breed strange yet dangerously successful bedfellows...case closed.

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Footnote

* Technically (as in genetically) Barack Obama was not America's first “black president” but America's first “mixed race” president as his mother was white and his father black.

Copyright © 2025 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.

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Op-ed: 

What Happened In Moscow...A Different Perspective 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone,and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google.

“The Embassy is monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings including in Moscow, to include concerts, and U.S. citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours.” - U.S. embassy public advisory alert sent out this past March 7th warning American citizens in Russia to “avoid large gatherings,” due to intel regarding “imminent plans” for an attack by “extremists.” This alert was also sent to Russian authorities as per our “duty to warn” policy even though Russia already had intel of it's own to that effect.

And so the twists and turns in the deadliest terrorist attack in Russia in over 20 years is, as expected, channeling the usual heading known as the “blame game” with Putin first claiming ISIS terrorists were the perpetrators of the attack than switching his story to blame Ukraine instead. And not surprisingly, with Putin's main concern always being to hold onto his iron grip of power, he's now even lobbing accusations against we who tried to warn him of what was expected to come...which sadly it did.

So while our intelligence is, at least for now, going with Putin's ISIS story line...Putin continues to state that he's putting additional countrywide...too little, too late... “security measures” in place. And this comes after his having issued a statement that the four perpetrators of the concert attack have been found and are being detained by the Basmanny district court where they face a maximum sentence of life in prison...and isn't it odd that they're not facing a death sentence. But then again this comes from the man who then tried to switch the narrative by saying that, “They tried to hide and moved towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them from the Ukrainian side to cross the state border.”

No Vladimir, I don't think so.

And while Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has rightfully denied both his and Ukraine's involvement in the concert attack...what I believe was a well planned internal massacre masquerading as a terrorist attack...now sees upwards of 140 people having been killed and countless others wounded...the blame in Russian intelligence eyes, at least for public consumption, remains with the “Islamic State Khorasan” or “ISIS-K” as it's more commonly known. So why this focus...because the “Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia” remains, as per Putin, working to identify what they call the “entirety of this terrorist group's support base.” Simply, why would Putin keep the focus thereif he really wants people to believe that Ukraine (or even the U.S.) was involved. In my opinion Putin would not unless this murder of innocents was all pre-planned to either “divert and deflect” the truth away from him via a cover-up so vile that it could change the entirety of not only the Russia v. Ukraine War, but of his regime and Mother Russia herself.

But, before I get into specifics regarding Vladimir Putin, know that “ISIS-K” is the very same terrorist group that murdered 13 American service members at “Abbey Gate” in Kabul during the Biden initiated 2021 U.S. military pullout from Afghanistan. You know the pullout I speak of where Biden not only left a number of Americans behind, but also some of our allies, our Afghan helpers and their families, as well as millions of dollars of key U.S. military equipment behind as well...equipment now in the hands of the Taliban...equipment now being used against the Afghan people themselves and others when need be. So why would “ISIS-K”  now suddenly choose to cause havoc in Russia knowing that her leader is more aligned with known terrorist countries...think Iran, North Korea, etc...than he is with the West. Simply I do not believe that “ISIS-K” was the perpetrator of the Moscow concert attack especially when their stated enemies are the Taliban and the West.

And while what I just stated regarding “ISIS-K” is still something to keep in the back of one's mind as terrorists, at times, need no reason to do what they do...so too is the fact that Putin himself knew in advance of a possible “imminent attack” yet he willingly chose not to add additional security but to pull security away from the “Crocus City Hall”...one of Russia's largest suburban concert halls...a concert hall belonging to a group of companies owned by the Azerbaijani-Russian construction tycoon and billionaire oligarch Aras Agalarov (who happens to own a home/property here in South Florida and is friends with Donald Trump), thus leaving the venue with but minimum security at best. And if that name sounds familiar it's because back in 2016 Agalarov “allegedly” offered Trump’s team supposedly “damaging information” from the Kremlin about Hillary Clinton which led Trump Jr. to hold a meeting at their Manhattan offices, which in turn was the beginning of the Trump witch hunt. An interesting side note if nothing else.

And so the scheduled performers the night of the attack were the Russian “heritage” rock group “Piknik” (“Picnic” in western-vernacular)...a group inspired by western “progressive rock” bands but with a classic Russian twist, and who for this concert were to be accompanied by a symphony orchestra. And “Piknik” was set to play the first of two sold-out concerts when four gunmen in combat gear first opened fire by shooting concert attendees at point blank range while at the same time setting off numerous smoke bombs. Now here is where it gets not only a bit interesting but possibly why I believe this particular concert was targeted, and it falls in line with why I also believe that Vladimir Putin had if not a direct hand in the attack itself, he at least had a hand in covering up the attack's truth.

First some background info on the Russian band “Piknik.” The band's lead vocalist and guitar front man Edmund Shklyarsky, is of the Catholic faith...as opposed to the predominate and Putin favored Russian Orthodox faith... and is not a current “booster,” as he calls it, of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine even though, at first, he supported Putin's “Special Operation” into Ukraine. Also know that Ukrainian authorities had previously banned “Piknik” from performing in the country because the group had played a number of concerts in Russian occupied Crimea including in Sevastopol, and who later released the song “To the Memory of Innocent Victims”...a song about those who were politically oppressed under communism. A quite surprising side note for a man who actually received a degree from Leningrad Polytechnic in the construction of nuclear power plants I'd say.

And the reason I bring up Edmund Shklyarsky's Catholic faith is twofold. First, recently deceased Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader who vocally condemned Vladimir Putin and who died in an Arctic prison under mysterious circumstances...was for many Russians not only still running “posthumously” to replace Putin as president, but Navalny was also of the Catholic faith. And second, the Catholic faith is now growing in number amongst young people in Russia, and it's young people who, like young people almost everywhere else, that do make up the bulk of Russia's concert goers.

Could the gathering that night of what was thousands of predominately young people... those most likely to oppose Putin at the ballot box...have been the actual planned target of the attack all along...an attack as payback for Putin's 12% loss in votes...a loss to one demanding 100% loyalty...a loss happening even in a “rigged election.” Something to at least think about as nothing is beyond the whelm of the former head of the KGB, the man now calling himself president instead of what he actually is...a bonafide dictator. 

Remember, dictators need absolute power in order to help perpetrate ongoing fear which in turn helps keeps the masses in line, and hence themselves in sole control. And in Putin's Russia there's no place for freedom itself nor even for the entertaining of free thoughts for his is a regime that demands absolute control over one's everyday lives and thoughts...no variations from the accepted norm allowed...ever.

And what better way to keep fear ongoing than to allow a pre-planed attack of violence to take place against those most likely to be perceived as a threat to the regime in power. And what better way to mask it than with Putin's pretty words said...words to the affect that, and I quote,“Those who provided them with transport, planned escape routes from the crime scene, prepared caches, caches of weapons and ammunition... means it's obvious that we are faced not just with a carefully and cynically planned terrorist attack, but with the organized mass murder of peaceful, defenseless people. The criminals were cold-blooded and purposefully going to kill, shoot our citizens at point-blank range — our children.” So said Vladimir Putin in his very own words.

And Vladimir Putin is the very man I believe not only knew that the attack on the concert hall was going to take place and when, he might even have helped in the planning of it courtesy of not only his deliberately pulling security out of the venue instead of his increasing it, but because his above stated words themselves, in my opinion, give it away. How so? Because how else would Putin have known that the victims were going to be shot dead at “point-blank range” instead of randomly being fired upon as is the usual case in mass shootings...how else indeed. Remember, some of the victims were followed into what they thought was the safety of the bathrooms, were picked out and shot dead at “point-blank range” while others were simply ignored. Sounds to me like some were selectively targeted to be killed.

Simply, why would a man as vile and ruthless as Vladimir Putin stop something whose aftermath would surely see a rise in the Russian people's collective fear, the very thing needed to help keep him in power, while at the the same time allowing Putin to place blame on the very enemies he is at war with...as in outwardly Ukraine and in the shadows the U.S.? Why indeed?

 

Remember, ever since the “Iron Curtain” went down there has been an influx of Russian nationals into the U.S. and they are some of the biggest boosters of both capitalism and freedom. And with many still having family in Russia they are able to tell them the truth about a regime trying to hide the fact that Russia is a dictatorship where freedom is not allowed and where the west is continuously lied about. And Putin knows this to be truth, and truth is what all good dictators fear the most of being exposed. Expose the truth and in time the aforementioned dissatisfied 12% grows to 20%, then 50%, and more leading to a possible second “Russian Revolution”...that is if Putin's own war weary military doesn't get to him first.

So while Vladimir Putin continues spewing that “ISIS-K” and/or either Ukraine or the U.S. is to blame for the attack, I think the U.S./Ukraine scenario can safely be put to rest for neither have anything to gain from being party to such an attack. Nor do I think ISIS itself...nor any of its sub-groups...had anything to do with this attack even though ISIS and its offshoots are always the first to take credit for attacks they actually didn't do, after all publicity is everything even in terrorist circles...nor do I think that any Russian “splinter groups” had anything to do with it either. And why...because the fact remains that Putin's hold on power is indeed slipping and what better way to regain what is lost than to create an act so vile that it installs in the masses a fear of things getting even worse if he, a man of war who rules with an iron fist, were to lose power.

Just something to think about...and with that case closed.

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Op-ed:
A Unifier in the Making...Perhaps
By Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

...It took courage to publicly state those what are truthful words...words that laid out by name some of those who are indeed the true danger to our Constitutional Republic...words placing blame where blame belongs...words as foreign to the Democrats vernacular as is the word “Constitution.”...

Read entire article and see video here: https://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/2021/02/op-ed-unifier-in-making.html

Op-ed:

A Unifier in the Making...Perhaps

By Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

 

And so it began just as we expected what with truths morphing into misplaced lies coupled with the undoing of a successful presidency being replaced with the hateful political agenda and rhetoric of a new presidency...in this case courtesy of 47 executive orders signed in just nine days...47 executive orders signed, sealed, and delivered by the man, now president, who said during the campaign that, “If you govern by executive order you are a dictator.”

And with the now guilty of his own words“dictator” having signed more executive orders than the past three presidents combined within the said time frame, Joe Biden's rhetoric and innuendos go hand-in-hand with the bevy of far-left politicians whose “America last” musings run the gamut of words not merely spoken of as opinions, but words hiding in the guise of pretending to be both truth and fact...words the media continues to not only help perpetrate and down play if need be, but words they willingly cover up for as well.

 

Take for example the media's playing down of these recently stated untrue words of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the failed bartender now masquerading as a woman pretending to have even one working brain cell. “There are no consequences in the Republican caucus for violence. No consequences for racism. No consequences for misogyny. No consequences for insurrection. And no consequences means that they condone it. It means that silence is acceptance," were the very words of a woman whose mere presence let alone words spewed on both twitter and in televised interviews, helped then and continues to help now in instigating the malcontents into behaving badly. 

And so this vile woman...a woman arrogant enough to think herself so important that what she says matters... it doesn't...and that Sen. Ted Cruz and others "almost had me murdered" during the Capitol incident...just so happens to be one of the “media darlings” who not only heralds racism as a career, but is a woman who loves resurrecting the “race card” to help bolster her own political fame and ambitions...or infamy if you will. And she does so while happily profiting off her must be concealed hated of her own skin color as she laughs all the way to the bank.

Sounds eerily familiar to a certain former now third term defacto president doesn't it.

Turning a blind eye and a deaf ear while daring not to publicly utter a single word of either opposition nor condemnation during most of last year when her party's followers and sympathizers were committing acts of overt violence and insurrection against the government, the police, and most especially against innocent folks...when her party's followers and sympathizers were rioting, looting, setting city blocks on fire, and even committing a murder or two or probably more...Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now represents the sum total of all that is wrong with today's Democratic party...the very party who thinks that there's no problem big enough that a government program or handout can’t solve. And she does so while channeling her inner Bernie Sanders and his socialist/marxist agenda, while letting her own America-hating personal agenda and rhetoric slip off of her spitefully imitated Nancy Pelosi-styled forked tongue.

So while Ms. Ocasio-Cortez continues to denigrate and dishonor the once so proud party of JFK, and while she callously champions the “tax and overspend” mantra that is the calling card of Democrats currently sitting in the House, a new style of Democrat has slowly started to emerge. And while this particular Democrat is surely not a conservative as we conservatives view ourselves nor is she even close to being a classic JFK so-called “blue-dog,” this Democrat, nevertheless, still “gets it," and could in the end, end up being her party's salvation in these most dire of politically convoluted times. 

And here I'm speaking of former Democrat presidential candidate, military veteran, and former Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard, the woman who shocked us all with her recent statement, "But let's be clear, the John Brennans, Adam Schiffs and the oligarchs in Big Tech who are trying to undermine our constitutionally protected rights and turn our country into a police state with KGB-style surveillance are also domestic enemies — and much more powerful, and therefore dangerous, than the mob that stormed the Capitol."

 

It took courage to publicly state those what are truthful words...words that laid out by name some of those who are indeed the true danger to our Constitutional Republic... words placing blame where blame belongs...words as foreign to the Democrats vernacular as is the word “Constitution.” And with those words Tulsi Gabbard has proven that her loyalty lies with the U.S. Constitution not with partisan politics, and this is how it should be.

Now compare the above stated words of Tulsi Gabbard to the words of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when talking about the same “storming of the Capitol” incident... when talking about who's to blame and who is not...and who alone should be punished. As per Ocasio-Cortez, “When we talk about healing, the process of healing is separate and, in fact, requires accountability. And so, if we allow insurrection against the United States with impunity, with no accountability, we are inviting it to happen again. That is how serious it is.” And here the media's socialist darling is obviously speaking of President Donald Trump, the man she blames not only for the happenings in D.C...which in reality were not committed by Trump supporters but by her own radical leftist loons, miscreants, and thugs...but for all our country's present woes and our future woes as well...that's how delusional AOC is...with her talk of “unity” being anything but.

But know before I continue on that there is a definitive reason why I bring up the contrast between these two Democrat women, and I'll soon reveal that reason.

But right now know that the differences between them runs deeper than just their January 6th D.C. incident takeaways for all one needs to do is turn the clock back to the first time the Democrats brought two article of impeachment charges against President Trump. This was the time when Ocasio-Cortez helped lead the impeachment farce with Tulsi Gabbard refusing to go along with her party and instead during roll-call voted “present” instead of voting to convict...a knowing blow to her then ongoing presidential campaign but a vote by an honorable woman who made her decisions based upon the premise of right and wrong rather than on the popular collective mandated opinion of her party, a woman not unlike West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin who at times has also bucked Democrat party orders. And know that “orders” is indeed the right word used for those who don't follow Pelosi's “orders” soon find themselves cast adrift as pariahs within the party faithful.

Simply, a firebrand vs. the House Speaker's dictatorial rule, something few had or still have the courage to do. And speaking of courage, recently Tulsi Gabbard, in an interview with Laura Ingraham, said of Nancy Pelosi that Pelosi's unproven words regarding Republicans in Congress being "the enemy within...who want to bring guns to the floor and have threatened violence on other members of Congress," were not only "inflammatory" and "terroristic threatening" in nature but were like "throwing a match into a tinderbox" and were "incredibly dangerous" in a country that is already "on edge" and "divided." 

Bitch-slapping the queen bitch, and rightly so.

 

And know that Tulsi Gabbard has a history of political courage for it was she who, after Queen Hillary labeled her a "Russian asset" to help spoil her chances of garnering the Democrat nomination, actually had the courage to sue the media's “anointed one” for defamation...a suit she dropped only after Hillary publicly apologized, albeit with much “egg” on her face.

Also, Tulsi Gabbard was the first presidential candidate to bring a lawsuit against “Big Tech,” as in a $50 million lawsuit against Google for “infringing on her First Amendment right to free speech” after they suspended her account following a strong performance in the then first Democrat presidential candidate debate. Bucking the Democrat mindset by claiming that Google in their regulating political ads on their platform assumed the “traditional role of government” in terms of their deciding what an and cannot be said during election season and were therefore subject to the First Amendment... Gabbard nevertheless lost said lawsuit after Judge Stephen Wilson of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, a Democrat of course, granting Google’s motion to dismiss. Ruling that neither Gabbard nor her campaign failed to prove that the First Amendment clause that prohibits government from curbing free speech applied to Google as it is a private company, saw the liberal activist judge stabbing a Democrat proponent of “free speech” in the back...a Democrat who obviously was not his candidate of choice.

But like I stated earlier, Tulsi Gabbard will indeed fight back when wrongs are trying to be passed off as rights. And while she failed in her endeavors at least she tried and moved on...a lesson learned more Republican in nature and tone than that of today's typical Democrat. Makes you so want to say thank you Tulsi Gabbard for saying and doing the right thing...wish there were more like you in the party instead of those like the ever smug and arrogant, America-hating troublemakers, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Now here is why I compared and contrasted these two Democrat women...and it comes down to but one word...“unity.”

And while Ocasio-Cortez loves to speak of “unity” as do her fellow Democrat-Socialists now in power, their definition, vision, and implementation of the word is anything but unifying, in fact it actually helps dig a deeper chasm between the two major political parties. Is that chasm digging deliberate...I surely think so for the Democrat hierarchy's plans for our country are in and of themselves the antithesis of unification especially when they're still being driven by the need for revenge for Hillary's loss in 2016...a loss that delayed Barack HUSSEIN Obama's defacto third term in office by four years.

So while we know Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is anything but a unifier, why then do I think Tulsi Gabbard might fit the very definition of that word...because her actions, as the proverbial saying goes, do speak louder than even her truthful words spoken. I think Tulsi Gabbard might actually be someone that can help bring both parties together, while not on all issues of course, but on issues of national security, foreign affairs, and the hot topic of the day...domestic terrorism...the very issue on which she holds no punches against her own party.

And going against her party's doctrine is something Tulsi Gabbard is not afraid to do. For example, she remains in favor of both election reform and election security including the use of mandated “paper ballots;” says the call for “reparations” needs to be studied “in depth” before and if any monies are to be paid out...Translation: no automatic payout simply to “buy” black votes; she's against “unlimited spending” regarding campaign financing; and says the Electoral College should not...I repeat... not...be eliminated...a key break between her and the Democrat party...a break in favor of the Constitution.

And Tulsi Gabbard continues to publicly state that she is in favor of breaking up big tech monopolies (hear that Facebook); was and still is in support of both Trump's USMCA policy and bringing our troops home; and also champions this idea that President Trump himself pursued while in office, as in allowing the importation of medications sold overseas at lower costs which would then allow the government to break patents of brand drug companies in order to make much needed cheaper generics available quicker something now in the spotlight what with Biden and crew raising the price of both diabetic medications and the life-saving EPI-pens used to counter anaphylactic drug, food, and insect bite reactions.

Quite a number of Republican leaning viewpoints I'd say.

And while Tulsi Gabbard still holds some key differing of opinions regarding the economy and certain health care issues, amongst others, they are not differences without a bridge to compromise being possible. And this...Tulsi Gabbard's willingness to see and accept different viewpoints then talk and compromise on said differences...is why I believe that she can be the much needed “uniter” between the two parties...which Joe Biden heralds himself as being while his actions say just the opposite.

In fact, wouldn't it be something to see a 2024 Republican presidential candidate picking Democrat Tulsi Gabbard as his running mate...talk about “unity” which would then no longer be just empty talk but real actions taken. Just something to think about I'd say.

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