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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, @09:44PM (4 children)
I named two. The government involvement in the institution of marriage prevented homosexual life partners from having recognition of their status. Sodomy laws are the better example. In that case, governments decided it was in their purview to ban homosexual people from having sexual relationships, which is surely a Ninth Amendment right.
There is also the example of the Japanese concentration camps during World War 2. Now we see that ICE concentration camps are being built, and there are reports of US citizens effectively having their citizenship revoked because they are Latino.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 13 2018, @09:52PM (3 children)
You've almost made a point with your example two. The Japanese had rights temporarily revoked, during a period of crisis. Those rights were restored after the crisis.
As for your gay marriage bullshit - gays never had the "right to marry" in all of human history, until recently. Even ancient Greece didn't have gay marriage. Read my post again - I asked for examples of rights being revoked, after having been granted.
Blacks cannot be returned to the plantation owners.
Women can't lose the right to vote.
Anchor babies cannot be deported.
Gays can't be barred from pretending that they are married.
And, your best example, the Japanese citizens cannot be deported, or mass executed, or kept on reservations, or whatever else you might dream up. Temporary restrictions, born of fear, during a crisis does not constitute a revocation of rights.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday October 13 2018, @11:50PM
I'm pretty sure everything you listed could happen. It's just incredibly unlikely and would require some fraught/heated amending of the Constitution in some cases.
Support for gay marriage is just too high for it to go away:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/support-for-same-sex-marriage-isnt-unanimous/ [fivethirtyeight.com]
http://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/changing-attitudes-on-gay-marriage/ [pewforum.org]
Example: support among "White evangelical Protestants" increased from 13% in 2001 to 35% in 2017. In other words, support among one of the groups most closely associated with anti-LGBT sentiment is now closer to 50% than 0%.
The trend might slow down, but will probably continue as older Americans die off. But what could cause the trend to reverse? Something really bad would have to happen.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @02:51AM (1 child)
Marriage is a bad example then. Heterosexual couples also pretend to be married. They cheat, and they divorce. In fact, marriage is a privilege, not a right. It is a social and legal construct.
I take the libertarian view anyhow: the government has no place in the marriage business. If your faith does not allow for homosexual marriage, that is fine. The Goddess I worship allows for such things. So then we uncover a right that may be involved in gay marriage. Freedom of religion is a right. But perhaps that is moving the goalposts.
You missed sodomy laws. I'll also add miscegenation laws. It is an inherent right of two consenting adults to have sexual relations.
They most certainly do constitute revocation of rights. Yet another example is back during the civil war when Lincoln jailed journalists in flagrant violation of the First Amendment.
(Of course, the Republican and Democratic parties have both changed quite a bit 150 years later, so that must not be interpreted as related to the modern Republican Party, and in fact, I do not think we can stretch what the current head of the Republican Party has said about journalists to imply a repeat of such a thing.)
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 14 2018, @04:01AM
You haven't really read my journal entry. All you need do is to watch the two videos. Black folk are figuring out that the two parties have not reversed. The D's want to keep them on the plantation. The D's think they "own" the black vote. Or, just go to Youtube, and do a search for #WalkAway. Watch any number of the videos that pop up. Matter of fact, the D's think they "own" a whole bunch of voting blocks, like the gays. They don't "own" any damned thing - they won't even "own" their responsibility in keeping the black man down.
"Here's some welfare, Nigga, don't forget to vote for us in November!"
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.