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The talk show hosts have blathered about #WalkAway for a few days now. Finally - I looked it up. Definitely interesting!
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/07/03/former_liberal_to_progressives_time_to_walk_away.html
Brandon Straka says that less than a year ago, he was a liberal. He explains why he changed his mind in this "viral video" encouraging other progressives to "walk away" from the remains of the Democratic Party.
"Once upon a time, I was a liberal,” the gay NYC hairdresser begins. "I felt I’d found a tribe.” But, he said, they will do “absolutely nothing for you."
The video is at least a month old, but Straka appeared on FNC's 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' on Monday to discuss what he means:
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com
Another story from an apparently Black Canadian woman who married an American.
https://www.redstate.com/kiradavis/2018/08/10/heres-chose-walkaway-liberalism/
My father-in-law was a popular local pastor, and also the first black man I’d ever met who called himself a Republican and a conservative. We were fast friends, and often talked politics. He would gently but intelligently challenge a lot of my notions and beliefs. I thought I knew a lot because I read a lot of headlines. He challenged me to read the actual stories. I thought I new a lot because I watched Bill Maher. He challenged me to watch the things going on around me. I thought I knew a lot because…well, I knew a lot! He challenged me to value results over talk. I wasn’t a convert, but I began to think that maybe I didn’t have the full picture when it came to my ideas about Republicans and conservatives. Could it be that I was depending too much on salacious headlines and raging talking heads for my opinions about conservatism?
Back to Brandon: http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/07/08/brandon-straka-walk-away-campaign-founder-denied-service-camera-store
Straka said the salesperson recognized him from his campaign and said that he couldn't sell anything to him because he did not support the "#WalkAway" campaign.
According to the movement's Facebook page, it's meant to "encourage and support those on the left to walk away from the divisive tenets."
Straka said following his encounter at the electronics store, he started "shaking" because he hadn't experienced negative backlash like that before.
"It took my breath away," he said.
Two videos, each of them very eloquent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pjs7uoOkag&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILQXW2Ob1PU&feature=youtu.be
(Score: 4, Informative) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday October 11 2018, @03:59PM
I still consider myself fairly liberally minded - I was a republican, then a libertarian, then I went half commie pinko and just picked the properties I liked from all philosophies. Even given my liberalish tendencies I agree with more of that video than disagree with it. However, I probably don't agree in the same way you do.
First I live in a very liberal area, most of the people I interact with are liberal and some of them extremely so. I don't know a single person who thinks the extreme views that are represented as "liberal" and "democrat" in the video are ok. Not a single one of them. Most of them have concerns about marginalized people of society and I do too - that's real, it does exist, I know some people who are effected by it. But not even those truly marginalized want this kind of lopsided attention.
I think instead of using terms like "liberal" and "democrat" for about half of that video the words could be swapped with "extremist," cut the rest out, then go ahead and show it at a Bernie rally - it'll sound just as good and apropos!
It would leave all the parts about giving up on intellectual honesty and just lying to achieve the agenda because the end justifies the means, about giving up on dialogue and communication. Basically if you take out everything related to someone's political values it's so generic it works anywhere.
I think you could also apply this regex nicely: s/(democrat|liberal)/twitter/g because really as far as I can tell this stupid shit is limited to those social justice wankers. And they are completely off their rocker and dangerous.
But that isn't all liberals, not anywhere near. Most of us are moderates trying to figure out how to organize this world. I think most conservatives are the same way. It's only the most extreme versions of those and other political philosophies that are the problem. People who are more wrapped up in not being wrong than being right are the problem and that comes from both sides.