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Today is the day for #Walkaway Movement

  

Category:  News & Politics

By:  vic-eldred  •  8 years ago  •  46 comments

Today is the day for #Walkaway Movement
I used to be a Democrat and a liberal, and that ultimately switched for me in 2017

Brandon Straka transformed himself from progressive to Conservative. Back in May he made a video titled "Why I left the Democratic Party



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A movement has formed of like minded former democrats who are fed up with the direction of the democratic party. Today they will begin a march on Washington DC.





https://walkawaymarch.com/


There has been a lot of talk of a "blue wave" sweeping the midterm elections. We know the left is still very angry about the 2016 election results. What about the more traditional "blue dog" democrats? The party is no longer theirs. The party now belongs to the far left. It is a party of grievance, redistribution, retribution and special interests. Today we may get our first glimpse of how solid the democrats are. How many turn out for this march will be the indicator.


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Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
1  author  Vic Eldred    8 years ago

Good luck Brandon

 
 
 
Jasper2529
Professor Quiet
1.1  Jasper2529  replied to  Vic Eldred @1    8 years ago

Powerful, accurate, and truthful video, Vic. Thanks for posting it!

 
 
 
Colour Me Free
Senior Silent
2  Colour Me Free    8 years ago
How many turn out for this march will be the indicator.

I had all but forgotten about #WalkAway .. My son played me numerous video of all kinds of individuals sending in their 'why I did it' videos .. will be interesting to see how many turn out - I was never sure if this was a real thing...

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
3  devangelical    8 years ago

They can all walkaway to russia where this bogus movement began.

 
 
 
PJ
Masters Silent
3.1  PJ  replied to  devangelical @3    8 years ago

jrSmiley_89_smiley_image.gif  The Russians sure got their money's worth.  Our citizens are so gullible and easily manipulated by hate and fear.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
3.1.1  devangelical  replied to  PJ @3.1    8 years ago

some of our citizens

 
 
 
PJ
Masters Silent
3.1.2  PJ  replied to  devangelical @3.1.1    8 years ago

I stand corrected.  sorry......

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
3.1.3  devangelical  replied to  PJ @3.1.2    8 years ago

no biggie.

 
 
 
Jasper2529
Professor Quiet
4  Jasper2529    8 years ago

Brandon Straka was on Fox and Friends this morning. Here's the interview:

What started as a 6-minute YouTube video has surged onto the national stage with countless former Democrats deciding to leave their party; WalkAway campaign founder Brandon Straka explains.

 
 
 
Don Overton
Sophomore Quiet
4.1  Don Overton  replied to  Jasper2529 @4    8 years ago

Not 1/2 as many as republicans that have left the party

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
Professor Quiet
5  Dismayed Patriot    8 years ago

If only the GOP can attract narcissistic white males they'll control every demographic! Oh, wait, sorry, that's their only demographic...

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
Professor Guide
6  A. Macarthur    8 years ago

Brandon Straka --  Opportunist

The #WalkAway push has been written up on sites like Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit. On Facebook, hundreds of people have shared their own “#WalkAway” narratives.

As is common for political tags, Straka’s #WalkAway enjoyed a boost from fake accounts, identical  astroturfed tweets , and a legion of bots.

It’s not yet clear how big a role such accounts played in pushing the hashtag up Twitter’s trending chart. Over the weekend amateur tweet detectives zeroed in on one user purporting to be a Latino voter with her own jewelry design business, who’d chalked up thousands of retweets. The account was found to have a fake name and photo, and the web address of her ersatz jewelry business did not exist. By Monday afternoon Twitter had suspended the account.

Straka insists he isn’t receiving outside funding for his campaign, aside from a GoFundMe drive that’s received more than $15,000 so far. And he, obviously, is a real person. “I’m not a Russian bot,” Straka said. “I’m just a concerned individual.”

This isn’t the first time Straka has tried to get attention with his changing political convictions. In October 2017, Straka staged a “jukebox musical” called “RESIST: A Rock Revolution” that shares a lot in common with his viral #WalkAway video, albeit with far more jarring aesthetics.

 
 
 
PJ
Masters Silent
6.1  PJ  replied to  A. Macarthur @6    8 years ago

I have no issue with people wanting to switch their political party but we all need to be skeptical with "campaigns" containing false information as motivators to switch.   

Whenever these type of campaigns get traction and are given more visibility I always hope people will be responsible and do some independent research rather than blindly taking the talking points that are given and passing it on as facts.

 
 
 
The Magic 8 Ball
Masters Quiet
7  The Magic 8 Ball    8 years ago

seems brandon has finally grown up.  age has nothing to do with becoming an adult.

 /

there is a reason the left targets the youngsters.

when people are young they are emotional and gullible = liberal when young

generally speaking, when people grow up, not so much = conservative when older

some people never grow up, and that is ok also :)

 
 
 
321steve - realistically thinkin or Duu
Sophomore Participates
8  321steve - realistically thinkin or Duu     8 years ago

when people are young they are emotional and gullible = liberal when young

generally speaking, when people grow up, not so much = conservative when older

Aslo when young ya don't have as much materialistically to protect. 

Gather up the goodies then ya want to protect em,,, makes since to me.

From my experience children and people with little to lose also dont usually care too much about being conservative,

Cause they have little to nothing to lose to be conservative about.  

When they do they likely become conservative with it  as well. Watch kids share the kid whose to it is is usually more careful with that toy that the kid who barrows it to just watch the car toy crash into the wall.  

Adults aren't much different. 

 
 
 
321steve - realistically thinkin or Duu
Sophomore Participates
8.1  321steve - realistically thinkin or Duu   replied to  321steve - realistically thinkin or Duu @8    8 years ago

When they do they likely become conservative with it as well. Watch kids share the kid whose the toy belongs to is usually more careful with that toy that the kid who barrows it to just watch the car toy crash into the wall.  

Sorry I'm dealing with disappearing pages on here at this time. Needing to reload way too much.

 
 
 
Atheist יוחנן בן אברהם אבינו
Junior Quiet
9  Atheist יוחנן בן אברהם אבינו    8 years ago

This ol' rightwing manufactured bullshit is back?  I wonder why that's happening now?  Has to be just "coincidence," right?

 
 
 
Thrawn 31
Professor Participates
10  Thrawn 31    8 years ago

I have just walked away from all of them. Trump has shown that one thing above all matters in this country, and I am done pretending like anything else does. I will vote accordingly, the people who still buy into ideology are the fools. 

 
 
 
The Magic 8 Ball
Masters Quiet
11  The Magic 8 Ball    8 years ago
today is the day for the walkaway movement

yes it is..... looks like more than a couple russians made the trip to dc... LOL

 
 

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