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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

The Walk Away Movement

THE WALK AWAY MOVEMENT

Their Party Has No Future': Former Democrat Urges Liberals to 'Walk Away' From Democratic Party 

Fox News Insider

The creator of a social media campaign urging liberals to detach themselves from the Democratic Party said that the future of the party is over.

Brandon Straka started the "#WalkAway Campaign," which shares video stories of people who decide to dissociate themselves from liberalism.

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 appeared on The Ingraham Angle Tuesday and said that negative rhetoric spoken by the left and intolerance it has shown has been a big reason as to why he's walked away.

#WalkAway campaign explodes – fed-up Dems leave party
Woke: 'Light bulb isn't even the word. It's like the sun came up'
From WMD: Published: 06/29/2018 at 5:18 PM

Brandon Straka, “It’s “intolerant, inflexible, illogical, hateful, misguided, ill-informed, un-American, hypocritical, menacing, callous, ignorant, narrow-minded and at times blatantly fascistic,” says a new political activist who has created a campaign online to oppose a party that he says he’s leaving.
He’s leaving liberalism and the Democrats.

His video is titled “#WalkAway Campaign – Why I left liberalism & the Democratic Party” and is one of those must-see projects.

“It is up to all of us to make our voices heard and reclaim the truth. The Democratic Party has taken for granted that it owns racial, sexual, and religious minorities in America. It has encouraged groupthink, hypocrisy, division, stereotyping, resentment, and the acceptance of victimhood mentality. 

And all the while, they have discouraged minorities from having independent thought, open dialogue, measured and informed opinion, and a motivation to succeed.”

Ex-liberal who started #Walkaway campaign says ‘oppressive’ Left has drowned out ‘common sense’
From RT

The #Walkaway campaign has helped thousands of disillusioned Democrats regain their own voices and push back against “oppression” and incivility from the Left, the movement’s founder told RT in an interview. 

The #Walkaway hashtag went viral after New York-based stylist Brandon Straka, an openly gay man, created a short video explaining why he felt alienated by the Democratic Party and had to “walk away” – despite being a “lifelong liberal.” Thousands of other wary Democrats have since joined Straka, posting videos explaining why they too felt compelled to leave the party. 

“I think the expectation for a lot of minority groups is that we’re supposed to vote Democrat, and that we’re supposed to be liberals. So I found myself sort of in that tribe on the Left most of my life,” Straka told RT. “What I wanted to do is get people back in touch with their voices and push back against the narrative on the Left.”

Accusing Democrats of cultivating a victim mentality among the party’s minority supporters, Straka argues that its attempt to portray a person of color, a woman, an LGTB person, a migrant as a “victim of systemic oppression” is the party’s “greatest and most insidious lie” – which is needed so minorities will see their saviors to be Democrats, who in fact do nothing to improve their situations.

#WalkAway Movement to Abandon Liberalism Goes Viral
Breitbart

The #Walkaway movement that began with a popular Facebook video featuring a gay hairdresser in New York City explaining why he was leaving the Democratic Party has quickly morphed into a major force on social media and beyond.

According to an article last Thursday in the Epoch Times, some five million people on Facebook and YouTube have seen the groundbreaking video showing a “very handsome gay man” who describes his awakening to the inanities of liberalism and the Democratic Party.

Growing #Walkaway movement may threaten Dems
From The American Thinker by Thomas Lifson

Could a gay hairdresser from New York City set off a mass exodus from the Democratic Party? A hashtag and a growing wave (not a blue one) of videos on YouTube and Facebook signal that the Democrats finally have gotten too crazy for at least some of their formerly faithful supporters. Celina Farber of the Epoch Times catalogues a growing wave of revolt against Democrats’ embrace of socialism and no borders and general insanity under the rubric of #Walkaway:

When actor James Woods tweeted out the hashtag “#WalkAway” in late June, even the alt-right missed the enormity of what lay beneath it. The Democratic Party had, in fact, struck an iceberg.

Some 5 million people on Facebook and YouTube have seen the video by now. A very handsome gay man, who you just assume is about to scold you on progressive talking points, instead says this:

“Once upon a time, I was a liberal. Well, to be honest, less than a year ago, I was still a liberal.

“I reject a system which allows an ambitious, misinformed and dogmatic mob to suppress free speech, create false narratives, and apathetically steamroll over the truth.”

It is always difficult to extrapolate from social media popularity to mass impact at the polls, there may well be an “emperor has no clothes” effect for all those suburban soccer moms that are supposed to be appalled by Donald Trump, who are also seeing Maxine Waters call for harassment of Trump administration officials and are not anxious to throw open the borders.  They don’t have to vote for Republicans in the midterms (though that would be nice), all they have to do is not vote at all, “walking away” from a party that has lost its mind.

We have more than four months left before the election. That is time for this movement to become well known among habitual Democratic voters taken aback at the descent into madness of their former political party.

The Walk Away Movement
From Dr. Stephen Jones: Jul 10, 2018

The Democratic Party is losing its membership rather quickly, mostly due to its aversion to free speech and its promotion of violence against those who disagree with them. This has done much to shatter past perceptions of what the Democratic Party has stood for. Perhaps the most significant change is how an increasing number of black voters are now supporting President Trump.

This change seems to have gained momentum when Kanye West came out in full support of Trump a few months ago (January?). He took a lot of heat from the press and the black leadership in Congress, but suddenly others began to see that he had a point.

The “Walk Away” movement is gaining momentum, strangely enough, among liberals and even in the gay community. Blacks and Hispanics too are beginning to realize that the Democratic Party (as a party) has a long history of racism and racist philosophies, and that even the big push for Socialism and a Welfare State has only put them into bondage to the state. When I listened to a drag queen come out in support of Trump, I realized that the Democratic Party was in serious trouble.

If this movement continues to grow, it is doubtful if the Democrats will increase their power in the mid-term elections this coming November.
Here are a few short testimonials from such people. Each has his/her own story to tell, coming from different backgrounds. I left out some very enlightening testimonials because of some crude language (street talk). The four testimonials below are more than enough to give you an idea of what is happening in America.



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