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Apparently, this online campaign has been going on over the past few days, and is gaining momentum on social media. A liberal gay man started it, over the left-wing propaganda being pushed by the MSM, and the calls for violence and discord from the left.

If you search Facebook or Twitter on the hashtag #WalkAway, the posts are testimonials of people on why they left or are leaving the Democratic Party. There are tons of them!



A video interview with the founder of the movement, Brandon Straka.
Periscope Video (interview starts at 29:45)

He's also started a Facebook group.
Facebook - The Unsilent Minority

Unsilent Minority's Twitter Account
Twitter - The Unsilent Minority


The post on his debut video:
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Today I’m kicking off the #WalkAway campaign by releasing my video about why I am walking away from liberalism and the Democratic Party. 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. 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.

Please like and share my video, and please post your own #WalkAway video!! If you are a former liberal who has walked away from the left, please share your story, or your message, or your thoughts in a video on the WalkAway Campaign Facebook Page.

If you are a lifelong conservative or non-Democrat, please share your story, message, or thoughts on what it truly means to be a conservative. Right now, the liberal media continues to perpetuate a false narrative about the “hateful” and “bigoted” right. Use your voice to let people know who conservatives really are. Be sure to use the hashtag #WalkAway.



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Here's a article on the movment.

The Epoch Times - Viral ‘Walk Away’ Videos Highlight Growing Movement of Democrats Leaving the Party

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When actor James Woods tweeted out the hashtag “#WalkAway” in late June, even the alt-right missed the enormity of what lay beneath it. The Democratic Party had, in fact, struck an iceberg.

Some 5 million people on Facebook and YouTube have seen the video by now. A very handsome gay man, who you just assume is about to scold you on progressive talking points, instead says this:

“Once upon a time, I was a liberal. Well, to be honest, less than a year ago, I was still a liberal.

“I reject a system which allows an ambitious, misinformed and dogmatic mob to suppress free speech, create false narratives, and apathetically steamroll over the truth.”

And then this devastating line—the Rosa Parks moment of the video:

“I reject hate.”

If Democratic strategists were still able to watch the rest of the video without suffering a nervous breakdown, they’d see that it quickly got worse.

“These are the reasons why I became a liberal. And these are the same reasons why I am now walking away.”
Tidal Wave

Meet Brandon Straka, the unlikely liberator and new face of the “silent minority” of Americans who’ve been cast out by family and friends, fired from jobs, and forced into silent social ghettos for their failure to “get it” about how hateful and dangerous Donald Trump is, and why he and all his supporters should be subjected to an ever-expanding social and professional fatwah.

Since Straka published his confessional video on May 26, his life as a New York City hairdresser and aspiring actor has been overtaken by a tidal wave.

While speaking to The Epoch Times about the explosion of his #WalkAway campaign, Straka had to occasionally stop to go style a client’s hair, all while fielding a constant barrage of newcomers’ testimonial letters, videos, and emails—over 1,000 a day.

They gather at his two Facebook groups, “The Unsilent Minority” and “WalkAway Campaign.” Those who have the courage post their own video testimonials about the moment when the abuse, rage, and ugliness of the Democrats caused them to finally leave the party and “walk away.”

“This is so much more than a hashtag on Twitter,” he said. “This is a testimonial campaign, a grassroots movement that is going to change the political landscape of this country.”

And that’s the astonishing twist here: If these people have been driven into the arms of Donald Trump, who’s left on the left?
Lifelong Democrats

Those who are walking away are not Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables,” but rather, in many cases, lifelong Democrats who simply could not take it any longer and have longed for this very moment, when somebody like them would make it safe for them to come out of the closet and speak their minds.

From urban gay men to staunch liberal grandmothers, from a punk drag queen with black lips to a tattooed lesbian with a mohawk, those posting testimonials all had a breaking point, a moment when they decided to “walk away.”

Lea Anna Bright, in a mohawk, looks into the camera and says in a slow, simmering voice: “This is a Vice article I am reading right now. It says, ‘The activist left doesn’t give a shit about your calls for civility. Get ready for a summer of rage.’” She looks up. “This is where the party is going, and this is why I chose to walk away. Peace. Not for me. Bye.”

A man adjusts his video camera and sits back. The walls behind him are a tasteful grey-blue. He’s a gay, affluent, native New Yorker, and he’s coming out of the second closet of his life. For Ricky Roberts, the moment came after the Orlando nightclub shootings.

“Trump said he was going to protect gay men, and he did, [with] the travel ban. Hillary was telling Americans not to ‘pick on all Muslims because of this,’” and that did not feel like protection, Roberts says. “I swear to God, wanted to throw my shoe through the TV.

“At that point I was like, I can’t do it anymore. I really can’t.

“You know, listen, I’m a gay guy from New York City, but before that, I’m an American, I’m a patriot. I’m now an uncle.”

His assessment of the Democrats: “From immigration to everything, they are just a disaster.

“They’re anti-American, anti-common sense, rational—anything good, they’re against it.”


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Great timing for the midterms


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Interesting. Mildly encouraging, even.

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My wife left when the chairman and vice of the party came out as anti Semitic. Don’t know how the rest of the NY Jews still stay with them!


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My wife and I really liked the video. As with the “Intellectual Dark Web” guys, most of whom are not (yet) strong Trump supporters, we don’t have to agree with everything to hail the new enlightenment of those who were on the other side. Thanks for posting!


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More people are on the same page in the big picture than we think sometimes. The uniparty exploitation is wearing thin no matter which way you tend to lean. The real blue wave showed up and voted in November 2016 for Trump.
 
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I agree this is encouraging.
 
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Still not tired of winning.
 
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^^^^^ Well, maybe that is just a LITTLE bit over the top....

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Walking away and finally feeling it’s ok to declare yourself a socialist or you were always a conservative/ blue dog democrat and the socialists have finally forced you out of the party. Not much to say except sorry the party left you.
 
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Yep, very encouraging!




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I wonder if the leftist MSM will be carrying this story?

Fox should own this. Update on the half hour the same way CNN does when they’re peddling lies. The irony is that this is the painful truth.




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Anyone with half a brain would not really want to live in a country where these radical leftists are in charge. No one would be safe unless you were in their hierarchy.

The great cleansing would take place as it has in endless countries where they achieve power.


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Heard of a preference cascade? That’s where everybody follows the crowd —until they don’t.


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I know many of you don't follow or have a Facebook account, but I do and I joined their group. Let me tell you, it's incredibly active!!! Lots of members!!!




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In his book "Radical Son" David Horowitz wrote of his days as a 60's far left ideologue at the sharp end of that stick. He had reason to question some of what was going on and read some of the right's best proponents. He was shocked at the level and depth of the thinking. He tried to talk to fellow travelers and couldn't find a single one familiar with what Horowitz had read.

Why learn where the other side stands when they're all stupid, cruel and hateful? Nazis are for killing.

#WalkAway could be massive. Open up the minds of some on the left to anything other than their dogma, stuff their not inherently going to resist and it's Katey bar the door.




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That's nice...now, what does the GOP do to bring them into the fold? While we don't agree with everything, we can agree on a handful of things and one of them is we don't want what's become of the Dems to win. The GOP needs to modernize and tap into this 'different group' who's disenfranchised and put-out by what they thought was their political party. Sorry, they left you but, you've us....
 
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