Exodus from the Democratic Party?

[Requiem]

May the trend continue, pick up speed, and roll right over the political party whose status quo since Trump's election has been Stunned and Stupid.

A campaign called #walkaway, started in late May, explodes as fed-up dems walk away from their party.

A new grassroots movement is urging Democrats who are fed up with the ugly direction the party has taken in recent years -- especially since President Trump was elected -- to "walk away." The #WalkAway campaign is "dedicated to sharing the stories of people who can no longer accept the current ideology of liberalism and what the Democratic Party has become," the group's Facebook page states.

Some left long ago. Many of us have recently been “red-pilled”. Some here have wanted to leave for some time, but have feared the consequences they might suffer from friends or family if they walk away.

This group is here to encourage and support those on the left to walk away from the divisive tenets by allowing people to share their stories, or watch the video testimonies and read the posts of others who have walked away.

Brandon Straka aka "The Unsilent Minority" kicked off the campaign with a video on May 26.

"It is my sincere hope that you will join me in this campaign and that we may start a movement in this country -- which not only encourages others to walk away from the divisive left, but also takes back the narrative from the liberal media about what it means to be a conservative in America," Straka says in the video.

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.

"For years now, I have watched as the left has devolved into intolerant, inflexible, illogical, hateful, misguided, ill-informed, un-American, hypocritical, menacing, callous, ignorant, narrow-minded, and at times blatantly fascistic behavior and rhetoric," Straka says in the video below.

The video has 1,156,248 views on Facebook and over 61,000 views on *******. The #WalkAway Facebook page has over 20,000 likes and over 6,000 members.

Straka, a gay man from Nebraska, says that he is one of the liberals who melted down in November of 2016 after Trump was elected. "It's funny now, but at the time it was completely tragic," he told conservative podcaster David J. Harris in a recent interview. "I was like a heartbeat away from being that 'Leave Britney alone!' guy ... crying hysterically," he said. Straka told Harris that a string of emotional videos he made after the election are still up on his Facebook page. He said the reason he was so devastated was because he believed all of the media lies about Trump being a "racist, bigot, sexist, homophobe, sexual predator."

He said his evolution away from the lies began when he saw a video that exposed the lie that Trump had made fun of a reporter's disability.

"It's a compilation of footage going back to like the nineties," Straka told Harris. "It's him doing that exact same voice, and that exact same gesture numerous times when he's talking about numerous people in numerous situations," he explained.

"The key common thread witj all of them is -- it's a voice and a gesture that he does when he's making fun of someone who's been caught in a lie, or someone who's done something shady or... dishonest and they've gotten caught. It had nothing to do at all with this person's physical disability. Nothing!" Straka exclaimed.

That revelation led to his realization that the media has gotten a lot of stories wrong about Trump -- including his alleged claim that all Mexicans are rapists and his alleged sexual abuse of women.

"Light bulb isn't even the word," he said. "It's like the sun came up."

The nonstop barrage of fake news stories and attacks on the President Trump, his family, and administration appears to be backfiring. Not only has it caused Republicans to rally to the president's side, as the New York Times reported on Saturday, but we may also be witnessing an exodus of fed-up Democrats who can no longer abide the rabid, anti-Trump derangement of the Marxists who have taken over the party. Their overwhelming hatred is causing lifelong Democrats to #WalkAway.

UPDATE: Straka responded to PJ Media's request for comment overnight:

“The movement is exceeding all of my expectations," he said. "I had anticipated that the people on the right would support those on the left who are walking away, just as they did for me. And I expected that those on the right would find strength in speaking out and letting the truth be known about who they are. But what I did not foresee happening was that in this space, where Americans from all walks of life have come together, once again, in the spirit of respectful dialogue and understanding... we have all found hope again.”



Source (https://pjmedia.com/trending/walkaway-campaign-urges-fed-up-democrats-to-leave-the-party/)

Some sample tweets of fed up, disillusioned former dems:

[WarriorDiplomat]

I have been saying this since the election the looneies on the left who were under the Democratic umbrella are leading the left it's the leftist media who placed the morons front and center and exposed the twisted insanity. They have driven many Democrats away who just didn't realize how sick the agendas are......Good job Oprah, Bill Maher, Cenk Uygur, Rachel Maddow.....I love hearing them lie, disillusion, and push their irrational insanity and more so the lefts lack of any ethics.....and yet the left has continued to to blatantly lie and ignorantly quote their Goebbelsesque and apparently wrong pollsters who they thought were accurate the first time....But here's the deal they are not completely stupid they are pushing what makes them money tyt for example is an upstart who depends on the irrational leftist to get more money period they are part exploitative business part deceptive liars part propaganda

[miclo18d]

That revelation led to his realization that the media has gotten a lot of stories wrong about Trump -- including his alleged claim that all Mexicans are rapists and his alleged sexual abuse of women.

“The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive”
― Stefan Molyneux

“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.”
― Gil Courtemanche, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

“The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.”
― George Seldes, Facts and Fascism

“The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.”
― Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

“Lies bewitch us, if we want to be bewitched.”
― Marty Rubin

I could go on.......

[Team Sergeant]

#walkaway

Brandon Straka

Not since Charles Krauthammer have I listened to an American explain a complicated situation so intelligently.

Brandon Straka, well done sir!

[EricV]

I was dis invited from last years 4th of July party at a "friend's" house cause liberal heads were still exploding. It didn't help with me saying "Bill Clinton's a rapist" when the subject of Trump's locker room talk came up. Or telling people after they rant that "Donald Trump lives inside your head. What's even funnier is, as a brilliant Real Estate investor, He lives there rent free!!" :D

I've been re invited and "Just walk away" will be a New line of attack. Of course there's the old stand by from Ronaldus Magnus: "I didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me."

If you never hear from me again, you can assume they couldn't take it any more and did me in.

[Badger52]

I nominate Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader.

[Paslode]

Maybe there is something to this story, while I was walking this evening I overheard two women in their 50-60's discussing politics and the media. As I strolled by one of the women said I watched MSNBC and Rachel Maddow, I was a strong Democrat but I changed to Independent.

Maybe there is hope.

[Penn]

EricV great quote should go viral!"Donald Trump lives inside your head. What's even funnier is, as a brilliant Real Estate investor, He lives there rent free!!"

[Penn]

“Silence is not my style. Cowardice is not my philosophy. I intend to speak up when I disagree with Republicans, and I intend to speak up when I disagree with Democrats.

Alan Dershowitz on being shunned and the return of McCarthyism.

Dershowitz, an openly avowed liberal democrat, examples by this statement, what has made our Nation free. The bravery of men, regardless of their political party, who are unafraid to challenge their own social network, or more generally their party/government. Risking their good name, fortune, and possible future to face oppression squarely, with which the progressive lefts effort, to silence all, who object to their radicals positions.

From the wearing of a MAGA hat to polite social (political) discussion among peers, is no longer possible without some forethought of offending someone, the result of the progressively evolving political correction. A strategy that has been a long, but successful one for the progressive left.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/03/alan-dershowitz-slams-marthas-vineyard-liberals-for-shunning-him-over-trump-defense.html

[Ret10Echo]

Maybe there is something to this story, while I was walking this evening I overheard two women in their 50-60's discussing politics and the media. As I strolled by one of the women said I watched MSNBC and Rachel Maddow, I was a strong Democrat but I changed to Independent.

Maybe there is hope.

"How to not be a sheep" The elixir of change

[Golf1echo]

Good Thread. There definitely is a spectrum on the left as well as the right...that fact makes it clear how the liberal left and msm has hijacked their party. It doesn't appear it's working out to well for them, I just heard a radio add by the n y time s seeking credibility :rolleyes: I suspect more than ever most are seeing through the ugliness. I caught that the last guy was now advising the party and charging $100,000.00 for a dinner...good luck with that, for some it's hard to read the writing on the wall. Few of any of us wants to live in their world...it is a strategy only...they don't even want that for themselves...

All about the money, it's been brought up before I also caught the last guy's wife is getting $125,000,000.00 from Net fli c for producing something, hey if the fat molester could do it, anyone can, right?

[Ret10Echo]

So, is this an Exodus from a 2-party system?

There are very few countries that have fallen into this political system (none of which are anywhere near the size of the U.S.) and I think the polarization and extremism is leading people all along the spectrum to really think if they are best served by giving up their ability to think and being forced to choose between someone with a "D" or an "R" following their name or if there is a better way.

With the massive amounts of cash involved it would be pretty monumental to see something happen.

[Pete]

Like it or not we are a two party system.

The "third party" groups refuse to start at the bottom and work their way up in the system. All they are is spoilers running in the high up elections siphoning votes off the fringe of the D'd or R's to let "the other guy" win.

If they would target the lower elections, get a base, expand a bit and then caucus with their side they would again start expanding their base.

[Badger52]

Like it or not we are a two party system.

The "third party" groups refuse to start at the bottom and work their way up in the system. All they are is spoilers running in the high up elections siphoning votes off the fringe of the D'd or R's to let "the other guy" win.

If they would target the lower elections, get a base, expand a bit and then caucus with their side they would again start expanding their base.
Sad but true (and there have been instances of "false flag" 3rd party candidates that ran with the very goal Pete mentions).

No one wants to start at the local level & they ignore the history of someone that jumps in at the State or Federal level, and the unintended consequences. Not defending either party with its current makeup, but it is what it is. We got 4 more years of a Socialist governor years ago because someone jumped in on a 3rd party platform w/o having cultivated any statewide ground & siphoned votes away from the R. Pesky data.

[Pete]

Libertarians are a good example. Starting at the state house level with hard work and lots volunteer work on the street they could start picking off house seats. Get a few, show the folks in that district that it's OK to be 3rd Party, Caucus with the R's but hold fast on their hot button issues.

After a few elections target a state senator district in one of their strongholds.

But Libertarians would rather pound away on the keyboard about how much cooler they are, vote for the Libertarian running for Governor and strut about saying how smart their vote was.

[Badger52]

But Libertarians would rather pound away on the keyboard about how much cooler they are, vote for the Libertarian running for Governor and strut about saying how smart their vote was.Ding-ding! In private conversation in the local supper club here that the aforementioned knucklehead owned (to be fair, it was a great place to eat), he would confess that he really screwed up & should've just run as an 'R' and let the primary sort it out. He learned a lesson but we got 4 more years of Ponzi schemes & shell games.

"Wind in his Hair" would not have described that as a "good trade."
:rolleyes:

[Badger52]

Pretty good piece from Kevin Nicholson (former USMC btw) who is running to unseat the wimmen's LGBT darling Tammy Baldwin in this state for US Senate. Pretty good modern parallel to why leaving the D's has happened in thie past. (Kevin, after the primary when she plays the woman/LGBT card - and she will - don't rise to the bait, just drive on.)

Link here. (http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/07/16/im-running-for-senate-as-republican-my-democrat-parents-are-so-furious-theyre-backing-my-opponent.html) Text below in case they shuffle it around.

I'm running for Senate as a Republican. My Democrat parents are so furious they're backing my opponent


My decision to be a Democrat was never a decision. It was just expected of me. It was understood. Born into a family of Democrats, my grandfather would often spend weekends talking to me about his respect for Franklin Roosevelt and his annoyance with President Reagan. I listened and absorbed, but was not yet ready to think critically about what I was told – or to decide for myself.

I love and miss my grandfather, but life has since taught me that thinking critically about the principles of the Democrat party is never encouraged because if you do, you have no choice but to leave – to walk away.

I was elected National President of the College Democrats of America in 1999, and now I’m a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in 2018. While the Democrats’ influence over my political philosophy defined a few years in my late teens and early twenties, that influence could not withstand the test of life and experience that made me a conservative as an adult. In contrast with my time as a Democrat, my evolution to becoming a conservative Republican was a fully mindful and deliberate decision, based on my life experiences that left me with no other option.

While my choice was made clear to me through the experience of my marriage, the birth of my three children, my acceptance of Jesus Christ as my savior, my time fighting in two wars, and my experience in business since leaving the Marine Corps, it came at personal cost.

My parents have since turned their back on me, my wife, their grandchildren, and their extended family. Adding to this, they decided to make the maximum contribution to my Democrat opponent in my campaign for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, an intentional personal blow that made headlines across the country. It was deliberate – and it is a true representation of the intolerance of a political philosophy that stands on the false platform of tolerance.

I don’t enjoy talking about this highly personal experience, but as I see the #WalkAway movement gain momentum, I feel compelled to share my story. As #WalkAway grows, conservatives need to reach out to those who were raised to believe in a Democrat Party and a liberal political philosophy that does nothing to make them more successful.

Many others who have decided to leave the Democrat Party have also likely paid a personal price for their decision. And others are not yet ready to leave because of the judgement and ridicule they will undoubtedly receive from other Democrats – whether family, friends, or co-workers. Unfortunately, their fear is founded.

The Democrat party is not the party of tolerance. It is not the party of acceptance. It is the party of intolerance. It is the party of closed doors, but open borders. It is the party of judgement. It is the party of identity politics. And that is why the #WalkAway movement is resonating. Because when you stop and ask yourself why you should be a Democrat, it is impossible to answer if you acknowledge the party’s hypocrisy, since it openly advocates for policies that encourage dependency and destroy opportunity for all of us.

As we look to the future, conservatives must aggressively reach out and welcome those who were not born into conservative families. We must continue to champion the dignity of all human life, conserve and strategically invest our financial resources, and work to build a strong defense that secures our nation’s prosperity for all. This is how I will win my election against Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin this November, and also how we will win the future of this nation.

During my Senate race, I have learned that some establishment Republican circles are reluctant to accept new members to our party. Too many believe that they have a club that they control – and would like to keep it that way since it keeps them in power. Those who demand that people be Republicans from birth in order to have a voice in the conservative movement would shrink, not grow our party. And their short-sighted perspective on people’s ability to mature as they experience life would keep us from bringing new Republicans into the fold, like Donald Trump has done. We need to push beyond these voices, and welcome new conservatives in order to secure our nation’s future.

If you’ve decided to #WalkAway or plan to, I encourage you to find strength in those who have already walked the path. Find strength in the principles of conservatism that are founded in faith, liberty, and the Constitution. And find strength in those who have walked the path before you: President Ronald Reagan, President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm – and so many others. Find strength in our decision to choose to believe in the human capacity to succeed when free, as you do the same.

[abc_123]

Pretty good piece from Kevin Nicholson (former USMC btw) who is running to unseat the wimmen's LGBT darling Tammy Baldwin in this state for US Senate. Pretty good modern parallel to why leaving the D's has happened in thie past. (Kevin, after the primary when she plays the woman/LGBT card - and she will - don't rise to the bait, just drive on.)

Link here. (http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/07/16/im-running-for-senate-as-republican-my-democrat-parents-are-so-furious-theyre-backing-my-opponent.html) Text below in case they shuffle it around.

I'm running for Senate as a Republican. My Democrat parents are so furious they're backing my opponent


The text of that article sounds like people trying to leave Scientology or some other cult. :eek:

[Badger52]

The text of that article sounds like people trying to leave Scientology or some other cult. :eek:LOL. I think you put it pretty well given their actions, especially in the recent past. It took a perspective developed over much time for Reagan. If he were suddenly here now & were able to observe the past 18 months, I think his OODA loop for a decision to leave would be measured in milliseconds.
:cool:

[WarriorDiplomat]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/04/obama-state-dept-used-taxpayer-dollars-to-fund-george-soros-groups-political-activities-in-albania-watchdog-group-says.html

https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2017/04/11/206-organizations-funded-by-george-soros/

Speaking of democrats, liberals and leaving the party has anyone ever wondered why Soros is not being sought as an enemy of the state...I know why it didn't happen under Obama and Hillary but why not now??

[RCummings]

WD,

I wondered the same thing. Some of the QPs and others have and are ousting enemies of our nation. Why not some of these? Money? Thats what it usually is.

V/R

Bob

[bblhead672]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/04/obama-state-dept-used-taxpayer-dollars-to-fund-george-soros-groups-political-activities-in-albania-watchdog-group-says.html

https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2017/04/11/206-organizations-funded-by-george-soros/

Speaking of democrats, liberals and leaving the party has anyone ever wondered why Soros is not being sought as an enemy of the state...I know why it didn't happen under Obama and Hillary but why not now??

I read somewhere that Soros has divested much of his organization and wealth to his sons who have taken over his dirty work. Would probably have to remove all of them from among the elite classes.

[rsdengler]

I read somewhere that Soros has divested much of his organization and wealth to his sons who have taken over his dirty work. Would probably have to remove all of them from among the elite classes.


Any takers......:D

Soros his clan/and followers, just label them as "putrid human waste" that are trying to destroy this Country. I think it's about time to get the Septic cleaned out......:p

[WarriorDiplomat]

I read somewhere that Soros has divested much of his organization and wealth to his sons who have taken over his dirty work. Would probably have to remove all of them from among the elite classes.

Soro's was said to be a antisemite though he is Jewish and has funded and supported the elimination of Israel......how does a man live through the holocaust and yet hate his own people?? His father had left communist Russia to get away from communism and this idiot turns around and supports it.....the irony of this guy is not only does he lack loyalty to anyone except his self but he is typical of the blue bloods who tried to preserve their wealth under the Oligarchy of Russia once the Romanov's were gone....Ayn Rand absolutely hated the communist system because of the reality and abuses though she came from one of the wealthy families. What is also of note is the lefts attack on the Koch family of Kansas because the senior Kock had made much of his initial wealth from Russian oil but what the left likes to neglect mentioning was how much Mr Koch hated communism and came back to the U.S. with a sense of activism against communism....he knew it was evil and so does Soros the difference? Koch saw it as evil and wanted no part of it and even funded anti communist groups but Soros sees it as a opportunity to preserve his own wealth and a power player in the Oligarchy.....and yet he and his sons being philanthropic and all are still billionaires

[Badger52]

Any takers......:D

Soros his clan/and followers, just label them as "putrid human waste" that are trying to destroy this Country.For a window into what they've accomplished - and their blueprint for us - one need only take a look at Europe.
:rolleyes:

[Paslode]

For a window into what they've accomplished - and their blueprint for us - one need only take a look at Europe.
:rolleyes:



With help from friends like multi-culturalism warrior Barbra Lerner Spectre.

Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural. And I think we are going to be part of the throes of that transformation, which must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies [sic] that they once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the center of that. It’s a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode, and Jews will be resented because of our leading role. But without that leading role, and without that transformation, Europe will not survive.

- Barbara Lerner Spectre, IBA-News, 2010

[ProudGSMom]

[QUOTE=WarriorDiplomat;644663]Soro's was said to be a antisemite though he is Jewish and has funded and supported the elimination of Israel......how does a man live through the holocaust and yet hate his own people??

A neighbor family I grew up with was Jewish...or, the grandfather was. He survived Auschwitz, came to this country and disavowed his faith and people. He said he hated and was ashamed of his Jewish heritage, because they allowed their own slaughter. His words, not mine. Yes, he was bitter but so very appreciative of this country, and insisted his children and grandchildren all serve in our military. America became his religion.

He told me the stories that my extended family who did not get out of Europe prior to 1939 did not live to tell. He also said, “no, it wasn’t six million, it was fourteen million, but the majority aren’t counted because they weren’t Jewish.”

[WarriorDiplomat]

[QUOTE=WarriorDiplomat;644663]Soro's was said to be a antisemite though he is Jewish and has funded and supported the elimination of Israel......how does a man live through the holocaust and yet hate his own people??

A neighbor family I grew up with was Jewish...or, the grandfather was. He survived Auschwitz, came to this country and disavowed his faith and people. He said he hated and was ashamed of his Jewish heritage, because they allowed their own slaughter. His words, not mine. Yes, he was bitter but so very appreciative of this country, and insisted his children and grandchildren all serve in our military. America became his religion.

He told me the stories that my extended family who did not get out of Europe prior to 1939 did not live to tell. He also said, “no, it wasn’t six million, it was fourteen million, but the majority aren’t counted because they weren’t Jewish.”

I know there were many genetic and practicing Jews that disavowed the people and religion their were alot of mental issues and suicides from the experience......Soro's disliked who he was before the Holocaust the anecdote was more about his character from the beginning....he saw opportunity where most see evil