Gabbard Says as President She Would Make the Ending of US Military Adventures Her Top Priority

She is terrible on economics and a long-shot but Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is by far the best presidential candidate out there. She gets the destruction, horrors, cost and wrongheadedness of current US military actions and the escalation of tensions with Russia and China.

During a campaign stop on Monday at the Asian Cultural Center in downtown Las Vegas,  Gabbard said her top priorities if she's elected to the White House in 2020 would be to end military action in countries such as Iraq and Syria and to de-escalate tensions with nuclear-armed countries like Russia and China.


"Power lies within our hands to change course, to bend the arc of history away from war and toward peace," she said.

According to AP, unlike other Democratic candidates, Gabbard didn't use her speech to criticize President Donald Trump, instead laying blame for problems like tensions with nuclear-armed countries on Republicans and Democrats, the establishment in Washington and entrenched special interests.

Before her town hall started, volunteers handed out fliers to attendees asking them to donate to her campaign and informing them that she needs to receive donations from 65,000 people in order to qualify for a spot in Democratic National Committee debates this summer. (The first debate is in June.)

Gabbard told reporters she's earned contributions from about 40,000 individual donors so far.

She said there are many decisions Trump has made that she disagrees with and thinks are damaging, such as his decision to withdraw from the nuclear arms treaty with Russia. She also said she wants environmental protections, a reform of the criminal justice system including an end to the federal prohibition on marijuana and to pass a "Medicare for all" health care plan.

 -RW