One of the weirdest political dynamics of the 21st century is the thorough marginalization of the anti-war movement.

The folks who were ready to publicly, actively take to the streets and decry US military activity have been right about basically everything for more than fifty years now. And somehow we moved past the part where we go "those guys were right about Vietnam and right about Afghanistan and right about Iraq twice so maybe we should listen to them" and just take it for granted that those, past wars might have been disasters but the next one, well, that's probably going to go fine.

Instead, they've been characterized as insane hippies disconnected from apparently quite complex global realities that absolutely morally require that we use robots to blow up wedding parties.

I don't even like Gabbard that much, but the way she's maintained a national profile is through a pretty unusual act of political courage. If you don't think that's true, try to remember the last time you saw somebody on cable news take a firm position against war in general. It's incredibly rare because that conversation has been hijacked by the SERIOUS THINKERS who understand things that us idiots don't.