He Stood up to the Elites -Mike Gravel (1930-2021)

Let’s not forget that the DNC changed the rules to keep senator Mike Gravel from ever joining the debate stage again and then changing the rules once more to get billionaire Mike Bloomberg into the debates.

Mike Gravel was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Alaska (1969 to 1981) as a member of the Democratic Party and who ran for the presidential nomination of that party in 2008 and 2020.

As Senator he was most known for his eager but unsuccessful attempts to end the draft during the War in Vietnam and for putting the Pentagon Papers into the public record in 1971. He ran with the Democrats all the way up until his biggest campaign in 2008 for president, when he fell short he decided to run with the Libertarian Party. He ran for president as a Democrat again in the 2020 election in a campaign that ended four months after it began.

His campaign staff then founded the progressive think tank The Gravel Institute, before he died a year later.

Gravel died of multiple myeloma at his home in Seaside, California, on June 26, 2021, at age 91.

The obituary for him in The New York Times stated that Gravel was....
"a two-term Democratic senator from Alaska ... who was perhaps better known as an unabashed attention-getter" who later become known for "mounting long-shot presidential runs". The obituary in The Washington Post was similar, saying that Gravel was "an Alaska Democrat with a flair for the theatrical who rose from obscurity to brief renown" and later "ran quixotic campaigns for the presidency".

The Anchorage Daily News quoted Gravel as saying of himself in 1989, "I'm an independent kind of guy. A rough and ready kind of guy. My glands work in a certain way that make me stand up, foolishly sometimes, and fight.

“I wish to call out the American Empire for what it’s done around the world, in killing innocent people without reason under the guise of that we’re trying to spread democracy. Killing people is not spreading democracy.”

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