Comments on: One of the most touching of the #Walkaway stories https://thenewneo.com/2018/08/18/one-of-the-most-touching-of-the-walkaway-stories/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:51:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Snow on Pine https://thenewneo.com/2018/08/18/one-of-the-most-touching-of-the-walkaway-stories/#comment-2396422 Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:51:04 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=79083#comment-2396422 Take a look at this very powerful #WalkAway video by a very thoughtful and articulate man who lived under Polish Communism, as he enumerates the correspondences between what he experienced in Poland and the ideology and behavior of the Left in this country today.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHjYsxtcK30

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2018/08/18/one-of-the-most-touching-of-the-walkaway-stories/#comment-2395976 Tue, 21 Aug 2018 04:43:08 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=79083#comment-2395976 I watched several more videos today.
Saw some very powerful stories, and (as with the first one in this post) there were only positive comments as far as I read them.

These are especially good. I have transcribed from the video when I thought the person’s story was particularly representative of the Movement, or if there was a unique personal angle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqYRcnII6o4
This is one of the best videos I have seen so far (speed 1.5) – 9:53 minutes

redpilled princess
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It took forever for me to finally decide to make my #walkaway video but I felt it necessary to share, not only my story, but the story of my incredible grandfather, a 93 year old Union Democrat who decided to walkaway. I wanted to illustrate for people that the people who voted for Trump were not Nazis at all but were instead, in many cases, the very people who voluntarily decided to fight Hitler himself.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1x80Tr0_ds

“Here’s my story…..I’m ready to WalkAway.” Lynzee

My rough transcription:
She is a gay Catholic woman who hid what she was after being bullied in school; marriage fell apart, so came out, and her conservative Catholic friends were okay with it; joined the gay community; out of place as a conservative. “Stepped out of one closet into another one” – married the only other conservative lesbian in her community. Attacking me personally, condoning hate and violence against me. Transgender friend (lesbian to male) and supported him, but felt I can’t be honest with him. Never felt that kind of animosity in the conservative community; don’t care if I lose friends, I can’t do it anymore.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG6JqmdIubA

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[Kristal is a moderator on the #WalkAway FB]
“Please excuse my nervousness. I hate being on camera and public speaking. It was Brandon’s call for videos, along with all of y’all inspiring stories and the courage and bravery you’ve shown, that gave me the courage to try to make a video. That and I’m one of y’alls moderators and I, especially, should have had one up LOL In my story I talk about the moments that eventually really start making me look at the Democratic Party-my experience with welfare benefits, but I neglected to make it clear that it was the research into that— how the Democratic Party encourages single motherhood and dependency on the welfare state and being a victim because of your identity, that really opened my eyes. I’m sorry I’m such a rambler.

This movement has given me so much hope and faith for the future. I don’t know if I ever would have had the courage to tell people that I voted for Trump or moved away from the Democratic Party if it wasn’t for all you guys!!! #WalkAway. To a united America—where we can have actual discourse and discussion and try to find compromise or at least respectfully agree to disagree. Also, no worries, I did not name my ex, not fully, I left out his last name on purpose. Lol Edit:I’ve gotten a few personal messages and a couple comments on the thread.
Yes, I am a mom of 5. I know I have a recent cover pic with all of us in it on my FB page if you need to verify that. My kids range in age: oldest is 21, then 16, 9, 8 and 4. I was really hesitant to do my WalkAway story because it involved welfare and I know it can be a touchy subject for some. There are genuine people who need it. I also know it’s being used to encourage people to stay on it and even abuse it….and it was because of the latter that I felt I needed to share my story. I don’t judge those who are on it and need it. That’s what it is there for. My family used it for a couple of months. I just wanted to point out some of the problems within it.” Kristal

My transcription:
Testified that they wanted to get off welfare but the caseworker tried to get them to stay on it, because “it’s free” – but it isn’t free, the taxpayers pay for it, and they didn’t need it. Took months to get them to actually close the account, and caseworker said that she had never in 30-plus years had anyone close out before they had to (this couple had almost a year left before having to be renewed).
Didn’t vote for Obama because he was as smarmy and charming as her snake-charmer ex-boyfriend (not black). Lots more about the things she found out during his administration. Not a NeverTrumper, but he was icky, liked Ben Carson. Not voting for Bernie, not for socialism even if you throw democratic in front of it. People getting wild, bizarre. Could not vote for Hillary, corrupt, evil; held nose and voted for Trump. And the world went insane. Had good debates along the way, but couldn’t do that anymore, afraid, until this Walkaway came along. In Arkansas (on the border).
You are as oppressed as you allow yourself to be; never believed that a black or Hispanic was anything less than a white person; moved to conservative because that really isn’t the liberal platform; support individuals, economy. Not a Republican but a conservative, because there are extremes, but they are the most welcoming, inclusive and diverse.

]]> By: charles https://thenewneo.com/2018/08/18/one-of-the-most-touching-of-the-walkaway-stories/#comment-2395942 Tue, 21 Aug 2018 00:08:51 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=79083#comment-2395942 MHJ: “he didn’t lose 500 friends, they were not his friends in the first place.”

Bingo! That is exactly right. That they would be willing to drop him because of his “political thinking” means they wouldn’t be there when/if he really needed them.

]]> By: David Heller https://thenewneo.com/2018/08/18/one-of-the-most-touching-of-the-walkaway-stories/#comment-2395929 Mon, 20 Aug 2018 22:34:05 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=79083#comment-2395929 The Progressive Left is a cult……. always has been.

Some people are waking up to that.

]]> By: David Swadell https://thenewneo.com/2018/08/18/one-of-the-most-touching-of-the-walkaway-stories/#comment-2395928 Mon, 20 Aug 2018 22:27:56 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=79083#comment-2395928 Snow on Pine,

That video has been effective. It’s the original #walkaway video featuring the founder of the movement, Brandon Straka, and has encouraged thousands of others who question leftist orthodoxy to come out of the closet.

I think his movement will prove increasingly attractive to young people who like to imagine themselves as rebels but fear social ostracism if they dare to resist groupthink.

]]> By: David Swadell https://thenewneo.com/2018/08/18/one-of-the-most-touching-of-the-walkaway-stories/#comment-2395927 Mon, 20 Aug 2018 22:18:26 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=79083#comment-2395927 I joined the walkaway facebook page after first reading about the movement a couple of months ago. The stories were moving and encouraging. Eventually I posted my own story about events starting in the late ‘80s that led to walking away in 1993 after Clinton criminality exploded on the national scene.

There’s a strong sense of growing community on the page, which seems a very hopeful sign for our nation’s future health. And I doubt one could read more than half a dozen stories without recognizing the visceral response of many former partisan Dems to the post-Trump hatefest playing 24/7 across the land.

No wonder the left’s Ministry of Propaganda is working hard to demonize, denigrate, and dismiss #walkaway!

]]> By: MHJ https://thenewneo.com/2018/08/18/one-of-the-most-touching-of-the-walkaway-stories/#comment-2395916 Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:51:30 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=79083#comment-2395916 I almost wanted to cry along with that gay guy in the green shirt. All I can offer, and I don’t know if this makes it better or worse, is that he didn’t lose 500 friends, they were not his friends in the first place. Friends don’t sever relationships over a switch between Democrat and Republican. They were never going to be there for him in a real time of need. They were at most casual acquaintances.

]]> By: Snow on Pine https://thenewneo.com/2018/08/18/one-of-the-most-touching-of-the-walkaway-stories/#comment-2395866 Mon, 20 Aug 2018 15:40:01 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=79083#comment-2395866 Meanwhile–just to show how well “Socialism” (that the far left Democrats now seem so drawn towards) is performing–in real life, in practice and on the ground–in Socialist/Communist Venezuela, “President” Madura has just announced that he will raise the corporate tax rate, increase the minimum wage by 3,000% (to the equivalent of U.S. $30 dollars per month) while, simultaneously, he is going to devalue their national currency, the Bolivar, by a reported 94-96%, as inflation in Venezuela is headed steeply upward, towards one million percent, amid massive shortages of basic medical supplies, toilet paper, rice, coffee, corn and other basic necessities.

Said former taxi driver Maduro in the speech announcing these measures, “I want the country to recover and I have the formula. Trust me,”

]]> By: Snow on Pine https://thenewneo.com/2018/08/18/one-of-the-most-touching-of-the-walkaway-stories/#comment-2395828 Mon, 20 Aug 2018 13:31:23 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=79083#comment-2395828 Want to see an atom bomb of a Walkaway video, look at this one I found at https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=Crz4E_1531056542

Not one of the rough, cinema verite, everyday people produced Walkaway videos. This one is extremely well done, and it looks like it was written and delivered by professionals.

Whoever produced it, I think it might be very effective.

]]> By: Bob Dwyer https://thenewneo.com/2018/08/18/one-of-the-most-touching-of-the-walkaway-stories/#comment-2395824 Mon, 20 Aug 2018 13:19:08 +0000 http://www.neoneocon.com/?p=79083#comment-2395824 As a south shore guy, my first reaction to most of these is “dawn breaks o’er Marblehead”.

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