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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @02:47AM
I have to agree with the other AC. I've long found the Log Cabin Republicans... queer. As in, I don't understand how somebody who is LGBT can be a member of the Republican Party. I completely understand why somebody in that category who lacks a womb would reject the Democratic Party, especially with how they and their supporters are clamping down on that facet of identity politics in a way that would make Janice Raymond proud.
(See White Women, Come Get Your People [nytimes.com] by Alexis Grenell for latest example and response The New York Times’ Alexis Grenell denounces white women for upholding the “patriarchy” [wsws.org] by Genevieve Leigh. Small part of Grenell's rant, granted... and certainly not the only thing wrong with it as WSWS points out.)
There is just something odd about a homosexual man moving to the Republican Party. Isn't he worried that with Kennedy and his libertarian attitude towards LGBT rights being replaced by a far right-wing ass-justice* known for partisanship and nominated by a Republican, his right to marry his life partner may be evaporating soon with no intention on the part of the Republican Party for a legislative remedy? Isn't he worried that sodomy laws may be once again found enforceable?
Why doesn't he join the Libertarian Party?
* couldn't resist