I make no secret of the fact that years ago I was a Democrat, but that increasingly unhinged political party drove me and so many others to leave it and I became an Independent Voter. The courageous Tulsi Gabbard followed a path that is very familiar to the rest of us who decided to #WALKAWAY from the Democrats. 

First she spoke out hoping to effect change in the Democrat Party by drawing attention to its abandonment of the working class and the poor. She also drew attention to the party’s still-increasing intolerance and its abandonment of free speech and other principles. And so on and so forth until the realization set in that the Democrats at present are a hopeless case and thrive on spreading hatred and division.

The former Congresswoman also said «I’m calling on my fellow commonsense, independent-minded Democrats to join me in leaving the Democratic Party. If…