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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 (2 children)
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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 11 2018, @04:09PM (1 child)
I think that's probably pretty reasonable. Part of the problem is, the extremists are so VOCAL! And, too few Dems, or liberals, or lefts stand up to refute the extremists.
Probably, it looks about the same to people who are left of center, without being extremist. Glad I'm not a Republican - it would probably hurt to admit something like that.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday October 11 2018, @05:04PM
You nailed it, no need to quote anything, it's all correct. The republicans lately have gotten worse about this too as I think moderates are fleeing the party. Perhaps that is happening to the democrats too - I'm not a democrat so I don't really know whats going on with them. I'm not a republican either but they have been on my radar over the past couple years. I suppose objectively though when the democratic leaders start spouting off the same shit from twitter than I should raise my concern. I am perhaps naively assuming that the more moderate majority will temper this.... while saying the moderate are fleeing the republicans. Ah fuck that's probably not good.
Here is another issue: dialogue is critical but not just dialogue among the political divide. These SJWs are fucking any chance at real helping by forcing dialogue around their topic to not exist. Really to exist only as them pushing a one way narrative with no room for learning a damn thing. When a problem exists and a solution is formed that needs to be evaluated in the context of all of human history to understand why it might exist. Some of our non-optimal baked in behaviors have to be corrected (we call this society) but we are humans and you can't just monkey patch the brain - it can freak out. But instead of discussion with people who have behavior the SJWs don't agree with but has actually been practiced for all of human history in a subtle social way that the autistic are near hopeless at understanding they shout it down and would just kill you instead of letting you have a voice.
I'm not talking about slavery - I'm talking about sex and the current discussions around consent requirements. I hope that women get turned on by breaking out a consent form because if not those SJWs are going to make sure no one with a soul gets laid again. And no grabbing people is not ok.