The #Walk Away Movement
While Democrat leadership seems hell-bent on unleashing the frothing-mouthed dogs of social war, it appears there is another movement afoot within liberal ranks to unleash some poodles of sanity. A video appearing on YouTube by a young, gay New York City hairdresser explaining why he has decided to “Walk Away” from the liberal left and the Democrat party has caught fire on social media, prompting a movement of like-minded leftists who have decided the party has gone too far left for them. In spite of efforts by the mighty gods of the social ether to suppress this trending disaffection, it could take on the momentum of a full-fledged mass desertion, fulfilling the hope of bewildered conservatives that, “They can’t all be that crazy, can they?”
The star of this cinematic declaration of independence, Brandon Straka, makes a heartfelt and compelling case for his rejection of present-day Democrat fascism masquerading as liberalism, albeit his message contains nothing new for conservatives and Republicans who have been making the very same points for years now in their criticisms of the growing lunacy of the liberal left. But do go watch the video, which has now been viewed by more than five million people on Facebook and YouTube, because it is so refreshing to hear our conservative complaints being voiced by someone in the heart of the liberal camp and such a Democrat stronghold as New York City. If the Democrats’ iron grip on Gotham is slipping, they’re in big trouble.
If the #Walk Away movement could spark to life in Manhattan’s gay community, imagine how it could catch fire among the disaffected, ordinary, working class Democrats out there in flyover country who managed to cling to their guns and religion even while voting for Obama twice and then Hillary. If sophisticated members of the New York gay community, with their greater tolerance of bizarre behaviors, are fed up with the Democrats, the flyover folks could turn this so-far small straying from the herd into a political stampede that runs right over the blue wave this November.
We should not, however, smugly conclude that these Democrat defectors will automatically vote Republican. Many may vote Libertarian or simply not vote of all. We should openly welcome them and calmly reassure them we are not the racist, homophobe, Nazi Neanderthals the Democrats have been depicting for the past decade. Many of us have long maintained that the Democrats could not possibly continue to hold together such a disparate coalition of minorities, all with their own, frequently clashing, agendas. It is now coming to pass and as each finds its own leaders and spokesmen we should welcome them to our conservative forums and help them meld their beliefs into our broader conservative views. Notice I do not say we should change our conservative agenda to accommodate them rather we must show them how they can fit into our view of what is needed to continue building a great nation that sets an example for the world.
Here is another #Walk Away video that comes at the issue from a very distinctive perspective.
NOTE: When I wrote my piece a few weeks ago announcing my return to TAH, I made an egregious error in reporting the nature of my illness. I stated that I had a 14×14.3 centimeter tumor in my throat. That was a gross error as the correct size was 4×4.3 centimeters. Nothing to sneeze at but still not the monster I described. Hell, they’d have had to behead me. I assure all of you there was no intent to mislead or over-dramatize. As I said at the time, the chemo and radiation have left the old brain (77 years as of this past Saturday) often confused and fuzzy. Please don’t cut me slack purely out of sympathy. As most of you know, I will fight stubbornly when I believe I’m right but can also admit I’m wrong as well.
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Category: Politics
I clicked the presentedlink, saw what I saw in the freeze frame, and then clicked off. No thanks. Whatever that is, I want nothing to do with it. Am I that superficial? You betchum. That aside, it’s nice too see that there is graduated measure of stupid among the Left and that some there are unwilling to go beyond a certain line. Anarchy seems to be the topmost line with fascism next, followed by socialism. They all drink from the same measuring cup. It’s just a question of how much liquid stupid they are willing to sip from it.
I actually watched it. The drag queen thing is off-putting as all hell, but I heard him out, and he made some good points.
Cliff notes:
Drag queen married to a black dude has had multiple instances of rabid leftists calling his husband a n****r.
Not a fan of open borders.
Grew up next to a place in San Bernardino that harbored illegal aliens. Illegals regularly robbed and vandalized his home.
Illegals made no attempt to assimilate, examples given of regular dogfights and cockfights. “That doesn’t belong in our culture.”
Democrats claim to be his advocate but don’t do anything he supports.
Just because he’s a gay dude in a dress doesn’t mean he hates America like current mainstream democrats.
Not it becomes incumbent on us to welcome them and show them that our beliefs don’t contradict their existence (ie, if they are gay, don’t start in with pray the gay away therapy). We should be able to disagree without condemning them as evil, otherwise we confirm what the left has said about us forever.
They all ready won, Docstew. I do not think of them as evil, merely perverse. If they want to join the conservatives in this nation, they are welcome. I just don’t want any part of embracing their choices for the sake of votes, which is precisely what RINOs do.
WTF is that second video? All I could think of was “Homo Throws Hissy Fit”. Bless his/her heart! Peculiar how he uses the word phony while coming out from his uniform of choice. It is damned near impossible for me to listen to such rhetoric from a “whatever” whom I believe flaunts himself/herself just to make a point the average conservative already knows. Actually, he looked better as a drag queen than a bald-headed p_____ puffer.
I call them what Almighty God calls them in the Bible…”abominable”…no other term or description necessary! imo
Well it’s actually a little “reverse performance art” piece. He “transforms” from his stage persona back into his normal-looking real self by the end of the video. Also mentions illegals he knew growing up, the stunts they would pull and the damage they did did in the neighborhood he grew up in. Including organized dogfighting and cockfighting– animal cruelty that American humane or “animal rights” activists (and that includes a lot of lefties) have been battling for years. That alone should make a big impression on a lot of naieve SJWs.
Well said.
The ones who scream TOLERANCE the loudest are always the most intolerant ones themselves. Sure, Conservatives have some kooks, but who doesn’t? We are much more of a tolerant crowd than portrayed to be and are much more welcoming to folks that have some or many views that we don’t agree with, because we are real people.
Everything…and I mean everything…about the left is fake, fraudulent, and totalitarian. Look at the brave people in Iran right now standing up to the mullahs…I compare that situation to this. The minorities are the people protesting and the Democrats are the mullahs.
#WalkAway
Not just that, a video is making its way around the net of some Antifa ratshits trying to break up a Conservative gathering and getting their asses kicked all the way to the moon and back! I say let the moonbat left keep going as they are and I hope they keep parading that whacko Socialist that won the D-rat nomination in NY, one DOES NOT interrupt an enemy while they are making fatal mistakes.
Welcome back Poe.
To paraphrase Leia Organa;
Progressives, The tighter your grip the more true liberals will slip away.
“…but can also admit I’m wrong as well.”
No harm no foul, Poe. Would that I had a dollar* for every typo I’ve made here at TAH.
*adjusted for inflation
Poe, when I saw the original dimensions of your tumor I immediately said to myself, “that’s got to be a typo”. Most folks don’t have much knowledge of the metric system of measurement. I work in the engineering field, so I do.
Hopes for your continued good health.
This slipping away was/is inevitable. I knew all along that the screaming, tantrum-throwing toddlers in adult bodies would disgust the more middle-of-the-road people on the left and they would – yes, walk away.
There is such a thing as voting an independent or floating ticket, not adhering to either party line. That is probably what they will do.
Hence, the scrambling by the leftred media to try to poison the well.
Cracks in the shell… always good to see.
Poe, you hang in there.
Just watched the original #walkaway video. It’s good, but no new information to me. Shouldn’t have taken this long. I think that most people that don’t closely follow politics and vote Democrat are decent people. They really need to see how radical and anti-American that party has become.
It’s just baffling to me how we could fight communism and socialism for 70 years and after largely eradicating it from the world, a generation later people are willingly running into the arms of socialism. Does nobody read history? I ask rhetorically.
They don’t even read current events, just look at the moonbat socialist that got nominated in NY, she openly advocates the USA taking the same path that Venezuela did which IMHO proves that not only that liberalism is a mental disorder, libtards themselves ONLY accept whatever propaganda they receive from their handlers as truth.
Thats because our school systems does NOT teach our history to the young people….the NWO can’t have a generation PROUD of their country, can’t overthrown them that way!!
Sympathy? I don’t care for that type of music.
I would agree with you more often…but then we would both be wrong.
The #RedPill movement has been going on for some time within the left. Dave Rubin, Jordan Peterson, Candace Owens, Larry Elder, Lindsay Shepard are but a few.
All you Trumptards are too busy thumping your Bibles to hear the winds of change brewing.
Nice of you to get around to pounding out a few words for us little people…Slacker!
Next you’ll be howling about us bitterly clinging to our gunz!!!
Oh please ! PT has been telling people his barrel is 14 cm long for decades. I don’t want to hear him blab on about how big his chamber is.
I guess 14 is the new 4 these days. We will know his brain fog has lifted when he stats juxtapositioning again.
Gee whiz, did someone slip you a Soy-puffed Candy Cream Full Organic Latte with Espresso, Whipped Cream and sprinkles laced with UC Berzerkely Kool-Aid?
Looks like Hardin’s writing with a hardon for the world this morning. At least he correctly spelled juxtapositioning. Those adult remedial English classes have paid off, hmm, Dave?
Yep’er I new dat GED would pay dividends one day.
“Good Enough Degree”
Poe, as a “typist” (that used to be a job description!) I figured you meant 14×14.3 mm. The actual dimensions are scary. You have fought hard and won. They say a fighting spirit is a huge factor in beating cancer. You are an example for us all!
I have never and will never bitterly cling to a gun! I may however joyfully, even blissfully embrace mine.
I will forever and always be a happy acolyte of St. John Moses Browning.
I have yet to see a “Trumptard” thumping a Bible. In fact, I haven’t met a “Trumptard” yet.
I have met thousands of Demtards, though. They are blocking the streets here all of the time with their plaintive bleating and whining for free things.
Every last one of them is a Democrat. That alone should scare everyone.
Last, I did not walk away from the Democrats. They threw us off of the ship years ago.
Sausage gravy and biscuits….
Just try prying them and my 10-inch cast iron skillet from my hands, Dave Hardin. Just try.
You haven’t had anything 10″ in your hands since you groped that drunk Aussie in Manila.
Thats why you were not allowed to be in charge of Shore Patrol anymore.
Haven’t seen you here in a while, has your Household Soviet®™ been keeping you leashed that tight?
He said he couldn’t find his wallet. I was just helping him.
Where do the small government conservatives walk away to?
To my thinking there are very few progressives left and very few true conservatives left.
Both the left and the right are now big government “ists” of one sort or another.
The left wants a great big government to “help” everyone and the right wants a great big government to “protect” everyone and in the end the words of Robert Heinlein ring true again…..
“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.”
there is no party for the liberty minded in the world.
Only parties for those desiring to take from others.
Ultimately, politics reduces down to two wolves and a sheep voting on what is for dinner.
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” B. Franklin
“I would be most critical of internet quotes.”
A. Lincoln
The Leftreds don’t really want to “help” anyone. They want to control everyone – an oddity, because they can’t control themselves.
TRUE, they SAY they want to start a revolution when the vast majority of them can’t even start a Weedeater, let alone a lawnmower!
Well, the reality of it is that they can’t even tie their own shoes, API.
It’s why I put it in quotes darlin…it’s clearly not the reality. The “help” they offer is truly not much help in the real world.
I wish there were a way to drop them off in a truly bad place that they couldn’t escape, like Venezuela. Or get a time machine and give them a trip to Stalin’s executions and pogroms.
I see the same wide-eyed stupidity and naivete that Hemingway, the biggest fool on the planet EVER, woke up to at the end of his life. The Communists used him then just as blatantly as they are using these idiots now.
I don’t think it’s too late. If someone like this young man can find himself walking away from that untrammeled idiocy, then others can follow that path, too. I think it’s up to us to encourage them to do so, don’t you?
“Where do the small government conservatives walk away to?”
They are usually too busy to walk away with the jobs they have to do to earn for themselves.
Isn’t that the truth? I work, raise my kids, do what I can to help out in my community, and just want to be left the fuck alone to live my life to its fullest.
What politician represents my interests?
From what I’ve been seeing, the louder and more obnoxious Leftreds and SJWs and Ecohippies, etc., etc., etc., are about as close as you can get to Anarchists. They need their own planet. There, they can be as destructive and self-implosive as they wish and no one will stop them. Maybe a planet with cute little carnivorous dinosaurs the size of a toy poodle will do, or one with giant, acid-drooling ants.
That works for me.
Given a choice, I’d vote for the one with the ants.
Thank you! So would I.
Over the weekend I watched the BBC’s special on Stalin. The main takeaway I got was groups of enlightened urban party members took state sponsored killing parties to the hinterlands, all in the name of ‘modernization of the union’.
Millions were killed by famine and exile to Siberia, not to mention the bullets to the head for the ‘enemies of the State’.
Socialism has a natural progression to these acts; litmus tests to ensure ideological purity, purging of those who fail or are too strong of a threat to absolute power.
I have no problem with Democratic ideals, in fact a strong two party system IS a stronger system due to Free Market principles. Unfortunately we are loosing the battle for civility with the Red, far left aspects of the Democratic Party.
I welcome the disillusioned former members of the D’s, but I beg you fight your members for control by challenging their idealisms. We can not have one party that believes in sovereignty and one who does not. House divided can not stand…and all that.
#RedPill
I don’t know if the Log Cabin Republicans are still around. They were kind of a neat fit in the 80s back when Republicans were more libertarian minded. A lot has happened since the 80s. Most of the gays on the right are well closeted until they get outed, often due to their own hypocritical foibles.
These days there are plenty of racists and gay haters in both parties. The Republicans seem to have more openly/semi-openly racists running for office. This may just be that is more attention shines on them.
The left, which is now centering around Bernie Sanders seems to want to pursue hard core socialism. It seems they have completely forgotten (or never learned, alas) have the failures world around. Maybe they belabor under the assumption the life is good in China and North Korea? Don’t know. It does not really matter what leftist issue is the most important to a democrat, the sane, educated ones don’t want socialism. There just are not a whole lot of them around.
Oh, they’re around. They just don’t make the loud, screaming, “look at meeeee!” noises or engage in the frantic antics that the more extreme (repulsive) Leftreds embrace.
The noisiest, most obnoxious of the Leftreds get the most attention.
The more reserved Democrats just back away from that, because it is not how they want to be known.
Happy Belated 77th Birthday, Poe! You are indeed a fighter. Thank you for all your interesting posts…always look forever in reading them.
🎂🎉🎁🎈🤗
I think I’ve made it plain here, as far as one’s race, religion, sexual preference, politics, favorite sit-com, I don’t care. Just keep it out of my face and show up to work squared away and ready to go. What occurs between consenting adults behind closed doors, which includes the voting booth, is not my business. Keep it that way.
I dare say that a goodly number of issues we face as a nation don’t affect us personally. For instance, I have never had a friend or relative murdered or had one who was a murderer. Nevertheless, I have a view of capital punishment. The same is true for abortion, an act committed between consenting adults, a doctor and a patient. My point, if it’s not clear, is that, as a member of society, I get a call on these and issues; At least I did until the Supreme Court decided it could supplant my moral judgments with their immoral ones. And to the extent that I can continue to be a voice against what not only moral authority but medical authority regarded as a mental illness, much as many folks today regard the transwhatevers, I will.
I think we can agree on abortion and the enabling of mental illness. The abortion issue is indeed between two consenting adults, but there is a third party involved that gets no vote, and that’s were that argument breaks down. Folks who are confused about their gender need professional help, not coddling.
The rest of my position stands- consenting adults, closed doors. In the squadrons every one knew who the gay guys and gals were, and nobody much gave a damn, as long, as I mentioned, there was no drama and everyone was professional on the job.
nope, the abortion issue is solely between mommy dearest and the undefended unborn person. The other adult is not part of the equation.
Referring to Mom and her physician as the two adults; the unborn child doesn’t get a vote.