#WalkAway’s Brandon Straka on the Mark Levin show: a political changer who started a movement
The founder of the #WalkAway movement, Brandon Straka, appeared last night on the Mark Levin show. His interview has been posted on YouTube, and a fascinating interview it is.
The entire interview is well worth watching, but the part that especially interested me was when he got to the heart of his “change” story. I’ve cued it up to show that part here. Although his story occurred recently and mine over fifteen years ago (!), there are certain resonances:
Here’s the whole interview:
I saw Straka on Stuart Varney’s Fox Biz show a few weeks ago, but they were discussing something else and then touched on WalkAway.
I loved the part about the Huffington Post. They wouldn’t steer me wrong, would they? I believe Andrew Breitbart was one of the worker bees that helped HuffPo get started. I’m sure he regretted it later.
“But CNN has never lied to me before!”
Great line, Brandon — and that was the tipping point.
So, he found that the Left (his friends) didn’t want to even look at evidence contrary to their beliefs.
Then he started doing research, and discovered how much CNN had been taking out of context —
“Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.”
What’s happening with #WalkAway now?
Hint: don’t go to Wikipedia for any positive information about the campaign.
I very much liked Levin’s interview and went to the Walkaway website right after the show and made a donation. I think they’re doing good work.
When I was….17 or so a shooting at a party next door to my parent’s house happened and I was quoted, in part, by a media outlet (this was 1975ish?) and neighbors were pissed at what I said – I spent weeks explaining what I DID say which was considerably less inflamatory that what was reported. I apologized over and over and NEVER forgave “media” their lust for spinning something in a way that divides people. Despite that I voted (for the first time) for Carter in 76. Went into the military in 77 and by 79 was completely disgusted by the Democrat Party.
The growth of the media and the willingness of people to be led by it and fight anything that goes against the narrative has been like daily booster shots of anti-media. As he said, once you’ve seen the emperor without clothes you can’t unsee it.
I like Straka’s movement, which is a hopeful sign.
But, it won’t mean sh!t if all those who are so dissatisfied with the Left and Democrats that they walk away, don’t vote Republican.
With all the news about Democrat efforts to block any effort to clean up the voter rolls, their shutting down the President’s commission to examine the issue of voter fraud, their adamant resistance and to require a picture ID to vote, Soros’ “Secretaries of State” project i.e. a little publicized–under the radar–project designed to get as many Democrats as possible elected to this key position for enforcing each State’s voting laws and ruling on election controversies, the number of fraudulent voters that have been discovered, etc., it is obvious that the Democrats have been and are planning to engage in massive voter fraud come 2020.
Thus, Republicans need every vote we can get.
P.S.–I say Republicans but I know that–from the evidence–many so called “Republican” candidates, when elected, turn out to be Uniparty candidates.
But, at this point, a supposed Republican is the best we can do, and far better–usually–than a Democrat i.e. a Socialist/Communist. (Forming a new third party, with the election system so massively rigged against such a thing happening, is just a waste of time.)
Now, if a lot of the Republicans who are elected are Trump Republicans, that would be a very good outcome.
The problem is, of course, that politicians these days rarely vote as they say they will out on the campaign trail.
Once they become a member of that exclusive Congressional club known as Congress, their outlook and priorities change, and not for the better.
This transformation reminds me of one I saw where I worked.
The group of workers I was a part of were pretty critical of management, and among ourselves people dropped hints about how disgusted they were with the way management behaved, with their policies, and how they treated us.
One day, though, one of us was selected to become a manager–elevated, now a member of an exclusive club–and, all of a sudden, her attitude completely changed, she wasn’t talking to us anymore and, when she did, it was to defend management. Complain to her about management and she no longer wanted to hear it.
The video links are gone.
Here is a working link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRoLkT_eS8w