“I began this journey as a Democrat, the party of my father, my uncle, the party which I pledged my own allegiance to long before I was old enough to vote.
I attended my first Democratic convention at the age of six in 1960.
And back then, the Democrats were the champions of the Constitution, of civil rights.
The Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, imperialism, and unjust wars.
We were the party of labor, of the working class.
The Democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment.
Our party was the bulwark against big money interests and corporate power.
True to its name, it was the party of democracy.
As you know, I left that party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with.
It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big ag, and big money.”
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