*** Update – The hashtag on my initial tweet at the bottom had the wrong handle – #WalkWay auto completed in my haste to finish this post. Fixed now, but well played, Jack. Well played. ***
If you haven’t already heard about this, there is something very interesting happening in The Democratic Party. Democrats who have no interest in becoming Republicans, but are tired of the extremism that’s taken over the party are, well. walking away. PJ Media’s Debra Heine gives a great description of the movement that’s worth an entire read:
In 2016, the Democrat media complex ignored the massive grassroots movement that came out in support for Trump, dismissing his massive rallies and popularity online as somehow insignificant. Now they are dismissing the #WalkAway campaign as a propaganda movement. Once again, something genuine and significant is happening across the nation, and it’s getting ignored or ridiculed by media elites. It doesn’t matter. Like a snowball rolling downhill, the movement is getting bigger and bigger with each day and there’s nothing an elite can do to stop it.
In story after story, former Democrats — including a popular, Grammy-nominated musician — describe how they finally saw through the lies, smears, duplicity, and hypocrisy that infects today’s Democratic Party. And how they couldn’t help but notice the outrageous double standard in the way liberals and conservatives are treated. For people who remotely pay attention, the corrupt stench of the party is getting harder and harder to ignore.
How do you think that Democrats are reacting to this? With exactly the intelligence and maturity that one would expect, of course!
Democrats want you to think the #WalkAway campaign is a right-wing propaganda effort propped up by a legion of Russian bots, but don’t you believe it. Brandon Straka’s WalkAway Facebook group now has over 106,000 members — and anyone who takes the time to read their stories will quickly be disabused of the notion that bots could produce them.
For all that the media likes to talk about rifts within the Republican Party, the Democrats seem to be having even bigger problems. Despite their rabid hatred and defiance for President Trump and his agenda, it’s becoming impossible to ignore a growing economy, strong job growth numbers, and positive results of the tax cuts that are actually popular with the American people, while the Democrats’ platforms of abolishing our borders, siding with MS-13, etc. really are not. This would be a good time for Democrats to take a hard look at their beliefs and instead, they’ve decided to be nastier than ever toward the half of the country that they hate.
If you’re wondering how this ties to the title of this post for once I’m not going to make you wait until the end to find out. Two years ago I wrote a two-part series asking if Mayor of London Sadik Khan’s banning of swimsuit ads was the key to saving the United States from The Radical Left. Part 2 asked the question, Is The Left’s Biggest Strength Also the Key to How We Defeat Them? To step Into The Wayback Machine for explanation of the Borg reference:
An episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation had the crew of the Enterprise encounter a species known as The Borg. Unlike other aliens that Captain Picard and his crew had met, these humanoid but cybernetically altered beings had no interest in communicating with The Enterprise. For that matter, the only interest they had in studying the ship was for assimilating the human race into their species. By assimilating, they would attack each person with a painful injection of nanite probes that would transform them into one of these Borg monsters. Even worse, none of humanity’s weapons had more than a minimal effect on the Borg, while the adversary’s weapons would slice right through our own defenses. The Borg were of a single hive mindset, completely sure of the purity of their mission, incapable of reason, and merciless toward any who did not fit their notions of an appropriate existence – sort of like your average Leftist today.
When the Borg made their attack to assimilate humanity they took on the unusual tactic of first capturing, and assimilating, Captain Jean Luc Picard. The motivation seemed to be twofold: 1) Absorb the knowledge of the Captain of Starfleet’s flagship, and 2) use the Captain as a lead face to demoralize humanity in the battle. The capture would be the Borg’s downfall however, as Picard’s crew would raid the Borg ship and capture the assimilated Picard. This allowed them to hook him up to their cybernetic crew member, Mr. Data, as a back door into the Borg’s systems. Why wouldn’t the Borg simply disconnect Picard from their hive mind? As the Ship’s Doctor came to realize, the Borg could no more sever one of their drones from the collective mind than you or I could cut off our own foot. The finale of what many consider to be the best episodes of the series ended in somewhat of a screw, with Picard’s own consciousness breaking through the Borg reprogramming to tell Data to put the ship to sleep. Data proceeded to access a Borg subroutine that set off a regenerative cycle, and for reasons never adequately explained this triggered a system crash that caused the ship to explode. For all of their evolutionary superiority, apparently the Borg couldn’t find a better operating system to run their ships on than Windows Vista.
In that post I went on to explain that Leftists can be defeated simply by pushing their ideology onto them that they might strongly disagree with since they’re incapable of giving up their unearned moral superiority. But now #WalkAway has made me look at my original point again from a different angle. Back to my previous Borg post for a moment:
Remember the Star Trek story from earlier where Dr. Crusher pointed out that the Borg could no more cut off one of their own drones from the collective than you or I could cut off our own foot? In that same way, the Radical Left would rather get raped or killed than concede the unearned moral superiority that they believe they hold. They can never admit they are wrong, or even acknowledge the “inadvertent” harm that their policies might cause. If that sounds insane, look no further than Rotherdam, the New Years’ attacks in Cologne, the European press’ efforts to put a soft brush on recent terror activities, etc.
Here is where things get interesting. Because Leftist positions are based on emotion rather than facts, their opinions are impervious to logic. My Borg post showed how Conservatives can redirect our frustration over having them ignore facts when we debate them to weaponizing their policies against them. But I had not considered what would happen if people from their own ranks started questioning Democrats’ policies that were clearly hurting their own? We’ve already seen this to some degree with the Obama voting Democrats who went for President Trump in the swing states being dubbed “A Whitelash.” But now it’s becoming more vocal as the party has gone to such extremes as calling for the abolition of our borders and dubbing Gulag Barbie as the future of the Democratic Party. The Democrats continue on this path at their own risk, as while it’s unlikely to trigger defecting GOP support, at best it may lead to Dems staying home for the midterms, at worst a third party being formed in 2020 as a home for sane Democrats. I know that the chances of this are slim, and 3rd party efforts in the last few decades have been little more than speed bumps. But that doesn’t mean that they’re completely ineffective either – remember Ralph Nader’s impact on the 2000 election, particularly in the state of Florida?
Personally, I hope that the Democratic Party undergoes a long overdue reckoning and becomes at least somewhat normal again. While I’m a Conservative, I have no delusions of the Republicans being saints. Anyone care to remember how Dubya and Trent Lott managed that Permanent Majority 15 years ago? Yeah, I’d like to forget that too. But it did lead to The Tea Party rebirth of the GOP. Yes, The Tea Party is dead, but it least we’ve kept the seeds of liberty alive in the Republican Party, however much the establishment wing has been fighting back. The other side is another story. What if The Left’s inability to accept responsibility for their own actions makes them incapable of having any other reaction to those who try to leave their plantation other than to angrily lash out, as they did with TheTea Party?
I sincerely hope that the Democratic Party returns to some semblance of sanity before the inevitable day when they come back into power. One thing is for sure – whatever Democratic Party we end up with when the smoke clears will be exactly the Democratic Party that this country deserves.
The danger of building alliances based on identity politics is that eventually your allies run out of other people to hate. #WalkAway
— Ultra Magas Brother Bob (@Brother_Bob) July 13, 2018
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There is a danger not quite unseen, the Democrat politician defections to the Republican Party slow infiltration that starts a left wing neocon one world order stealth infection. Bush is one, McCain is one, nothing more than rightwing democrats AKA RINO types. Dont count on Fox propaganda to call them out.
Even if they were to put on a facade of sanity, who could be sure it was sincere? Look at how their views on illegal immigration, border security, gay “marriage” and national defense; no matter what they say, what will their positions be if/when they gain power again?
If we see them purge Pelosi, Schumer, Warren, Harris, Lee, Waters, Ellison, etc, etc, etc, and replace them, not with people even FURTHER left, but with rational thinkers, perhaps we can trust them.
A big Dem Party problem is that, for every “Walk Away” video there are probably 20 more silent Dems who feel the same way, but who are not feeling free to tell the world.
Re-watch a few Walk Away videos.
Only people who are not afraid of losing many friends will make a video.
Yet, the Walk Away movement is huge.
The ballot box anonymity will show the truth.
I also expect a lot more very disillusioned Dems will simply stay home.
The Democrats are just like the Borg that want everyone to be assimulated and made part of the Hive
@Nanny G:
You can tell by your arguments with many Democrats that they base a lot of what they think on what other people do and say. Whenever some prominent Republican says something negative about Trump, they say, “See? You should think that way too, because that guy is prominent.” Or, if a gang is organized by socialists and protests Trump they say, “See? All those people hate Trump. You should hate Trump, too.”
While they might have some rumblings back in the recesses of their minds that the Democrat party is acting like spoiled children, is turning dangerously leftist and is making an enormous fool of itself, only once a few begin going public with such feelings will other Democrats feel they have made the correct assessment.
Some, but not all, of the Dem Walk Away group are moving further to the Left.
We saw that when Rep Joe Crowley didn’t even mount a campaign against his Left flank so that, in a really low turnout primary, he lost to a socialist democrat, Ms Ocasio-Cortez.
But the district is heavily Democrat, so how do the rest of the voters feel?
We may find out.
Rep Joe Crowley is on the ballot against his “democrat” opponent, Ms Ocasio-Cortez.
More here:
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/12/socialist-winner-ny-14-establishment-democrat-beat-primary-still-running-general-election/
Billionaires from around the world met with the GOP establishment in order to ‘Stop Trump’.
These Never Trumpers do not have a D after their names, but they are still there and still our enemies.
The battle for power, as the Founders/Framers predicted, is not between halves of DC (R vs D), but between DC and The People.
Billionaire cronies/DC vs Donald/The People
@kitt: Not too worried – our RINOs hide in plain sight. But if we can get voters to defect – that is what scares the shazbot out of the Dems
@Deplorable Me: Fair points, but to put it in Flopping Aces terms, I’d rather see the Democrats run by the Rich Wheelers or old commenter Larry from Huntington Beach versus the Gregs and Ajays who are currently in charge.
@Nanny G: I’m interested to see what happens next. I always thought that they had a coalition held together by the elmer’s glue and paper clips of identity politics and the cult of Obama. Without that unity we’re seeing a really ugly side to them
@Spurwing Plover: What they’re coming to painfully realize is that resistance is NOT futile!
@Bill589: Amen! I’ve written about this before – when the wealthiest counties in the country are centered around a city whose main industry is confiscation that’s a problem
@Brother Bob: Well, AJ is a waste of 0’s and 1’s. While Rich can make an argument, he took the route of AJ in making unverified and unsubstantiated accusation and then dodging questions about it. Whatever happened to Larry? I will probably never agree with Greg, but at least he stands by his points; he even admitted to (or supported his party by) believing Hillary’s 33,000 emails were really personal about weddings, funerals and yoga.
None of these guys are going to walk away; they don’t have the strength to admit what this Party is doing. I’ll never be able to understand people who still support Hillary. She presents NOTHING that should appeal to any human being. Obama, at least, is personable and charismatic, traits that appeal to liberals and override integrity and character. They are ideologues, or at least they play one on FA, doing what they do to convince others of the infallibility and glory of liberalism and leftism. Those walking away saw a lofty goal and see that their party, while claiming they have common goals, care only about the power to turn the nation far to the left.
@Brother Bob: #8 they pull the party to the left creeping socialism, run on we will get rid of Obamacare hey we won guys…why cant I call BCBS and just buy a catastrophic health care plan why does it still have to cover things I dont need, like, maternity, my 1st born is 40 dammit I am kinda done having kids. We are still paying for the abortion factory with our tax dollars, and I dont have my damn wall. ect ect ect. Pitchfork and torches anyone?
Where is Hugh and his band of Borg Free Thinkers?
@Spurwing Plover: I guess the equivalent would be Bernie Sanders (as Lor) taking over Hugh’s free thinking group!