#WalkAway

[Calculon]

Let’s hope this spreads like wildfire.

Must Watch – #WalkAway Campaign- WHY I LEFT LIBERALISM & THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY – #MAGA spread this EVERYWHERE !!! — – CultureKill

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

#runthefuckaway

 

[GOPerfect]

I watched about half of it....

He is still a liberal. He still believes in most that I do not. He still sees life thru foggy glasses.

Good for him, not like he is going to ever support the same people as I do.

He will still vote for the Clinton's and the Sanders' of the world. He still thinks that being a tranny is okay. I am sure he still wants them to be able to use whatever bathroom they want.

I am sure he still thinks that white privilege is real.

He probably still believes the white man is the number one reason the black man is still down.

 

[kev74]

I registered as a democrat and got to vote against the Hildabeast twice in the last election. I'm going to have a hard time giving that up.

 

[MadScientist]

No judgement but kinda happened to me. I used to be very left wing not so long ago, not liberal but full blown Marxist.
What caused me to reject it (besides growing the fuck up) was a number of things but largely boils down to:
1) the lefts racism. He sums it up well, victim mentality is toxic. But also the double standard against white people and sometimes Asians. You can write news articles against whites (recently saw one title “All white people are cowards”, no joke) that couldn’t do against any minority. It’s ridiculous. Overall though started getting really bothered by free speech suppression after trump was elected. Leads to next point
2) gun rights. May be cliche on this board but it really was a big thing. Ironically traditional Marxism is very pro gun. Marx wanted workers armed for his revolution. Ultimate irony is most official left wing groups are pro gun control, despite calling themselves “revolutionary socialists”. Not sure what they plan on using in revolution, probably rocks.
But more seriously starting in late 2016 early 2017 started looking the 2A, which lead to greater understanding of the bill of rights, and constitutional law in general. Started to grow a deeper appreciation for the founding fathers and their foresight over time. Liberty started making more sense than supposed progress granted by the state. Granted by others.
Idk take that as you will. Consider it a success story and maybe use it to convert others toward the constitution and away from the absolute idealism of leftist thought. I consider myself a libertarian and a constitutionalist these days if that matters.
Edit: and no I didn’t vote for Hillary I was dumb but not that dumb

 

[Bigfoot]

No judgement but kinda happened to me. I used to be very left wing not so long ago, not liberal but full blown Marxist.
What caused me to reject it (besides growing the fuck up) was a number of things but largely boils down to:
1) the lefts racism. He sums it up well, victim mentality is toxic. But also the double standard against white people and sometimes Asians. You can write news articles against whites (recently saw one title “All white people are cowards”, no joke) that couldn’t do against any minority. It’s ridiculous. Overall though started getting really bothered by free speech suppression after trump was elected. Leads to next point
2) gun rights. May be cliche on this board but it really was a big thing. Ironically traditional Marxism is very pro gun. Marx wanted workers armed for his revolution. Ultimate irony is most official left wing groups are pro gun control, despite calling themselves “revolutionary socialists”. Not sure what they plan on using in revolution, probably rocks.
But more seriously starting in late 2016 early 2017 started looking the 2A, which lead to greater understanding of the bill of rights, and constitutional law in general. Started to grow a deeper appreciation for the founding fathers and their foresight over time. Liberty started making more sense than supposed progress granted by the state. Granted by others.
Idk take that as you will. Consider it a success story and maybe use it to convert others toward the constitution and away from the absolute idealism of leftist thought. I consider myself a libertarian and a constitutionalist these days if that matters.
Edit: and no I didn’t vote for Hillary I was dumb but not that dumb

Awesome, glad that you came over to our side bro.

 

[Catskillkid]

No judgement but kinda happened to me. I used to be very left wing not so long ago, not liberal but full blown Marxist.
What caused me to reject it (besides growing the fuck up) was a number of things but largely boils down to:
1) the lefts racism. He sums it up well, victim mentality is toxic. But also the double standard against white people and sometimes Asians. You can write news articles against whites (recently saw one title “All white people are cowards”, no joke) that couldn’t do against any minority. It’s ridiculous. Overall though started getting really bothered by free speech suppression after trump was elected. Leads to next point
2) gun rights. May be cliche on this board but it really was a big thing. Ironically traditional Marxism is very pro gun. Marx wanted workers armed for his revolution. Ultimate irony is most official left wing groups are pro gun control, despite calling themselves “revolutionary socialists”. Not sure what they plan on using in revolution, probably rocks.
But more seriously starting in late 2016 early 2017 started looking the 2A, which lead to greater understanding of the bill of rights, and constitutional law in general. Started to grow a deeper appreciation for the founding fathers and their foresight over time. Liberty started making more sense than supposed progress granted by the state. Granted by others.
Idk take that as you will. Consider it a success story and maybe use it to convert others toward the constitution and away from the absolute idealism of leftist thought. I consider myself a libertarian and a constitutionalist these days if that matters.
Edit: and no I didn’t vote for Hillary I was dumb but not that dumb

I was in a similar situation to you except perhaps my conversion took place about 8-10 years earlier. Super Conservative in high school, grew to be uber liberal due to Marxist indoctrination by the end of undergrad and then went full on Commie in Grad School (was a big supporter of Occupy Wall Street when that was a thing). Hell I'll even admit it here. I voted for Obama not once but twice (this was before my conversion mind you). One thing I never changed though was my support for gun rights. My opinion was that who's going to stop the right wingers from taking over the government if you're not armed (there's still logic in that if you think about it but it's lost on all the progressives).

Then SAFE Act happened (shortly after I had gotten my pistol permit and was thinking about getting an AR for the first time). Couldn't believe that would happen that a "real" liberal would support suppression of Civil Rights (but Governor Monkeyface sure did that). Just like you I started studying the Constitution and reading about the Founding Fathers and legal and philosophical principals of our country's founding and realized what all the leftists were missing: chiefly that you can't legislate human nature. It's nasty, brutish, and short. Government only create the environment (as best you can) for equality of opportunity (as opposed to equality outcomes which is what the left wants and which always winds up robbing Peter to pay Paul). Also began looking at alternative media and realized that the MSM is not impartial, that they are pushing a globalist agenda that doesn't care about you and your rights and most certainly not about your well-being. They don't want you to be a "citizen to the world" rather they want you to be their "slave." And last I checked all slaves are disarmed. That's why the hate the 2nd Amendment so much: they can't control you when you're armed and independent.

I also couldn't get around the whole victim mentality either. This race to the bottom on who is the most oppressed didn't appeal to me and never could wrap my head around why it would be considered a badge of honor (and many do!). Not to mention that I started working in government and experienced first hand the excess and inefficiencies of bureaucracy, how wasteful it all is, and how most of these so called projects to better people's lives do nothing of the sort.

In short, Governor Monkeyface and the rest of the raving, foaming at the mouth liberals turned me from one of their biggest supporters into their biggest haters. Hell I even registered as a Republican. So in that sense I guess I have to thank Governor Monkeyface for opening my eyes to reality. Probably the only thing I'll thank him for.

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

This thread (and your personal stories) is encouraging that there are those on the left who are perhaps not lost. It still is possible to get passed the brainwashing, indoctrination and propoganda to come to your own conclusions and to change your opinions based on personal observations, logical arguments and historical evidence.


As a side note, once you guys started to convert over to the conservative/libertarian/constitutional side, how long did it take to get over your indoctrinated stereotypes of how the left portrays the right?


Keep fighting the good fight guys.

 

[Bigfoot]

Yeah, good question @Drinkthekoolaid... how long did it take to get over your indoctrinated stereotypes of how the left portrays the right?

I was always politically active. But Cuomo's NY UNSAFE Act made me that much more so.

 

[MadScientist]

As a side note, once you guys started to convert over to the conservative/libertarian/constitutional side, how long did it take to get over your indoctrinated stereotypes of how the left portrays the right?

For me it was VERY rapid, like days or weeks. It just clicked, philosophy made sense and stereotypes started breaking down.
It really started however with a “waking up” to what the left really is. The phrase “the left eats their own” is so fucking true. Doesn’t matter who you are if u say or do one thing out of line they will hop on you to call you racist or mysogynist or whatever like flies to shit. This is important because it eventually alienated me. On the contrary I’ve found people on the right are some of the nicest people, that simply love their families and their country and will defend it with all they have. So when I started becoming disillusioned with the left the transition rightward happened rapidly because the leftist stereotype of violent evil nazis just didn’t hold water, ironically it more adequately described the left.

 

[Catskillkid]

For me it was VERY rapid, like days or weeks. It just clicked, philosophy made sense and stereotypes started breaking down.
It really started however with a “waking up” to what the left really is. The phrase “the left eats their own” is so fucking true. Doesn’t matter who you are if u say or do one thing out of line they will hop on you to call you racist or mysogynist or whatever like flies to shit. This is important because it eventually alienated me. On the contrary I’ve found people on the right are some of the nicest people, that simply love their families and their country and will defend it with all they have. So when I started becoming disillusioned with the left the transition rightward happened rapidly because the leftist stereotype of violent evil nazis just didn’t hold water, ironically it more adequately described the left.

I would echo MadScientist's experiences too. It was a little different for me in the sense that I grew up in a very rural, blue-collar, socially conservative area (at least by New York standards) so that was the default for me. The people who were my neighbors and community members would likely be described as deploreables today but for me they were always real people with hopes and dreams. When I was going through my liberal phase there may have been a short period of time where I hated them and blamed them for everything wrong with the world, but I think for the most part I viewed them as mostly just misguided. My wrath at the time was centered more on the folks like the Koch Brothers who were (and still are) villainized for buying elections and the "inbred, Southern rednecks" who supported them.

I will 100% agree with the "left eats their own" statement. The beginning to my turn to the dark side if you will (haha) was when I was in college/grad school and started to become politically active and really sought out the left-wing causes which I believed in then. Some were welcoming but many others were most assuredly not. I was a heterosexual white man and that was all most of these groups needed to know about me. This is meant that I was automatically a racist, a sexist, a xenophobe, a domestic-abuser/rapist, an imperialist/capitalist/authoritarian and because of my "privilege" I had no idea where they were coming from and never would understand their plight (whether it was feminists, the environmentalists, the various minority groups, etc.) and I needed to get to the back of the proverbial bus because my opinion and my life experience didn't matter. Oh, but please donate to the cause. At best they viewed me as a source of money, but many didn't even want that. Unless I was 100% in lockstep with them I was a pariah and even then it was iffy and never really accepted. Basically, I was being judged on the color of my skin and not the content of my character. My first lesson was that the Leftists are really some of the most racist and discriminatory people out there. That's all they really talk about. For all the concern about conservatives legislating what goes on in the bedroom I've had conversations/seen talks with feminists who were far more concerned about micromanaging genitalia than any social/religious conservative I've ever met. Here I was, a natural ally and I was being discarded and basically discriminated/told I was worthless and should just die because of how I looked. Wasn't there a bloody Civil Rights movement to stop that very thing?

I began to realize that I wasn't really wanted there and people who looked like me weren't wanted either because we "never would get it." This is the constituency of the new Democratic Party by the way and we're seeing this is elections all across the country. Basically I decided I needed to disengage which I did for the most part. Then SAFE Act happened and got me to reading, reexamining political and philosophical works and the Constitution with a critical eye and also not accept everything the MSM regurgitates as Gospel truth. I began to realize that the great unwashed, uneducated masses may actually be on to something even if the RINOs who ultimately represent them may not have their best interest at heart. Basically at it stands today I view most people on the left not with anger or hatred but with pity since they are so uninformed and misguided (much as how I used to view conservatives). I would also add that the conservative circles that I've flowed into and out of have been very welcoming and accepting as opposed to many of the liberal groups that I at one point tried to align myself with.

One other thing I would say begat my awakening: entering the workforce. Right now I work for a non-profit which is a bit outside the normal realm of private sector work for most but I think these experiences still rings true whether one works in the public sector, private sector, or a sort of gray area like I do. I, as many Leftists, used to believe that there are Haves and Have-Nots in this world and the Haves got what they got because they were born into privilege and their ancestors/families exploited the Have-Nots. The Have-Nots were exclusively good who no matter how hard they worked couldn't get a break because the Haves were keeping the down. It was a very black and white view of the world that I think most Leftists have because they need a simple philosophy to adhere to to make sense of their world. The reality is that there are not two extremes but rather a bell curve with shades of grey in the middle. Sure some people are dealt a bad blow and are exploited and some who come from old money have the world on a silver platter but most folks are somewhere in-between. I've seen people who come from literally nothing and who grew-up crappy circumstances rise to become hugely successful (that's the American Dream in a nutshell isn't it and it can only happen here) and so-called privileged people squander their resources. I also saw a lot of people get good jobs and promotions who had absolutely no business getting them because of either ass-kissing office politics, good old boy and good old girl networks (regardless of what the feminists say "good old girl" networks do exist and I personally have not advanced as much in my career as I would like because of one...my office predominantly female), affirmative action or the like. I've also seen obscenely obtuse and lazy people (of all socioeconomic classes and races) who have an entitlement mentality think they deserve something because of their mere existence. The world doesn't owe you, me or anyone shit! But it's the Leftists who want to reward the do-nothings with the hard earnings of the productive people like me and probably most folks on this forum.

Here's the too long; didn't read version: Once I realized that virtually all of the Leftists groups didn't want me because I have white skin and a penis (but were happy to take my money which is ironic since they weren't doing any of this for money supposedly) I did a very hard reconsider of my philosophical views and the views of those who held opposing viewpoints. My view is that the Democratic Party and other Left Wing groups is becoming (has become really) the party(ies) of racial/religious/sexual minorities, feminists, and full-bore no compromise communists. Moderate white folks (especially heterosexual males) need not apply (but please do give us donations). I, like most people, know where I'm not wanted, and will go instead to where I am.

The Left has been all about identity politics for the past decade or so. If they keep pushing white males (and even white females more and more) pretty soon the political parties will be fractured along racial lines, far more than it even is right now. And that is a terrible thing.

 

[masterswimmer]

I would echo MadScientist's experiences too. It was a little different for me in the sense that I grew up in a very rural, blue-collar, socially conservative area (at least by New York standards) so that was the default for me. The people who were my neighbors and community members would likely be described as deploreables today but for me they were always real people with hopes and dreams. When I was going through my liberal phase there may have been a short period of time where I hated them and blamed them for everything wrong with the world, but I think for the most part I viewed them as mostly just misguided. My wrath at the time was centered more on the folks like the Koch Brothers who were (and still are) villainized for buying elections and the "inbred, Southern rednecks" who supported them.

I will 100% agree with the "left eats their own" statement. The beginning to my turn to the dark side if you will (haha) was when I was in college/grad school and started to become politically active and really sought out the left-wing causes which I believed in then. Some were welcoming but many others were most assuredly not. I was a heterosexual white man and that was all most of these groups needed to know about me. This is meant that I was automatically a racist, a sexist, a xenophobe, a domestic-abuser/rapist, an imperialist/capitalist/authoritarian and because of my "privilege" I had no idea where they were coming from and never would understand their plight (whether it was feminists, the environmentalists, the various minority groups, etc.) and I needed to get to the back of the proverbial bus because my opinion and my life experience didn't matter. Oh, but please donate to the cause. At best they viewed me as a source of money, but many didn't even want that. Unless I was 100% in lockstep with them I was a pariah and even then it was iffy and never really accepted. Basically, I was being judged on the color of my skin and not the content of my character. My first lesson was that the Leftists are really some of the most racist and discriminatory people out there. That's all they really talk about. For all the concern about conservatives legislating what goes on in the bedroom I've had conversations/seen talks with feminists who were far more concerned about micromanaging genitalia than any social/religious conservative I've ever met. Here I was, a natural ally and I was being discarded and basically discriminated/told I was worthless and should just die because of how I looked. Wasn't there a bloody Civil Rights movement to stop that very thing?

I began to realize that I wasn't really wanted there and people who looked like me weren't wanted either because we "never would get it." This is the constituency of the new Democratic Party by the way and we're seeing this is elections all across the country. Basically I decided I needed to disengage which I did for the most part. Then SAFE Act happened and got me to reading, reexamining political and philosophical works and the Constitution with a critical eye and also not accept everything the MSM regurgitates as Gospel truth. I began to realize that the great unwashed, uneducated masses may actually be on to something even if the RINOs who ultimately represent them may not have their best interest at heart. Basically at it stands today I view most people on the left not with anger or hatred but with pity since they are so uninformed and misguided (much as how I used to view conservatives). I would also add that the conservative circles that I've flowed into and out of have been very welcoming and accepting as opposed to many of the liberal groups that I at one point tried to align myself with.

One other thing I would say begat my awakening: entering the workforce. Right now I work for a non-profit which is a bit outside the normal realm of private sector work for most but I think these experiences still rings true whether one works in the public sector, private sector, or a sort of gray area like I do. I, as many Leftists, used to believe that there are Haves and Have-Nots in this world and the Haves got what they got because they were born into privilege and their ancestors/families exploited the Have-Nots. The Have-Nots were exclusively good who no matter how hard they worked couldn't get a break because the Haves were keeping the down. It was a very black and white view of the world that I think most Leftists have because they need a simple philosophy to adhere to to make sense of their world. The reality is that there are not two extremes but rather a bell curve with shades of grey in the middle. Sure some people are dealt a bad blow and are exploited and some who come from old money have the world on a silver platter but most folks are somewhere in-between. I've seen people who come from literally nothing and who grew-up crappy circumstances rise to become hugely successful (that's the American Dream in a nutshell isn't it and it can only happen here) and so-called privileged people squander their resources. I also saw a lot of people get good jobs and promotions who had absolutely no business getting them because of either ass-kissing office politics, good old boy and good old girl networks (regardless of what the feminists say "good old girl" networks do exist and I personally have not advanced as much in my career as I would like because of one...my office predominantly female), affirmative action or the like. I've also seen obscenely obtuse and lazy people (of all socioeconomic classes and races) who have an entitlement mentality think they deserve something because of their mere existence. The world doesn't owe you, me or anyone shit! But it's the Leftists who want to reward the do-nothings with the hard earnings of the productive people like me and probably most folks on this forum.

Here's the too long; didn't read version: Once I realized that virtually all of the Leftists groups didn't want me because I have white skin and a penis (but were happy to take my money which is ironic since they weren't doing any of this for money supposedly) I did a very hard reconsider of my philosophical views and the views of those who held opposing viewpoints. My view is that the Democratic Party and other Left Wing groups is becoming (has become really) the party(ies) of racial/religious/sexual minorities, feminists, and full-bore no compromise communists. Moderate white folks (especially heterosexual males) need not apply (but please do give us donations). I, like most people, know where I'm not wanted, and will go instead to where I am.

The Left has been all about identity politics for the past decade or so. If they keep pushing white males (and even white females more and more) pretty soon the political parties will be fractured along racial lines, far more than it even is right now. And that is a terrible thing.

Damn, why'd you post a DNA strand?

 

[Catskillkid]

Damn, why'd you post a DNA strand?

I checked it over and it's in the English language and also paragraphed. Yup, I admit it's long but I did include a too long;didn't read synopsis for those who have less than a 5th grade reading level.

 

[MadScientist]

I would echo MadScientist's experiences too. It was a little different for me in the sense that I grew up in a very rural, blue-collar, socially conservative area (at least by New York standards) so that was the default for me. The people who were my neighbors and community members would likely be described as deploreables today but for me they were always real people with hopes and dreams. When I was going through my liberal phase there may have been a short period of time where I hated them and blamed them for everything wrong with the world, but I think for the most part I viewed them as mostly just misguided. My wrath at the time was centered more on the folks like the Koch Brothers who were (and still are) villainized for buying elections and the "inbred, Southern rednecks" who supported them.

I will 100% agree with the "left eats their own" statement. The beginning to my turn to the dark side if you will (haha) was when I was in college/grad school and started to become politically active and really sought out the left-wing causes which I believed in then. Some were welcoming but many others were most assuredly not. I was a heterosexual white man and that was all most of these groups needed to know about me. This is meant that I was automatically a racist, a sexist, a xenophobe, a domestic-abuser/rapist, an imperialist/capitalist/authoritarian and because of my "privilege" I had no idea where they were coming from and never would understand their plight (whether it was feminists, the environmentalists, the various minority groups, etc.) and I needed to get to the back of the proverbial bus because my opinion and my life experience didn't matter. Oh, but please donate to the cause. At best they viewed me as a source of money, but many didn't even want that. Unless I was 100% in lockstep with them I was a pariah and even then it was iffy and never really accepted. Basically, I was being judged on the color of my skin and not the content of my character. My first lesson was that the Leftists are really some of the most racist and discriminatory people out there. That's all they really talk about. For all the concern about conservatives legislating what goes on in the bedroom I've had conversations/seen talks with feminists who were far more concerned about micromanaging genitalia than any social/religious conservative I've ever met. Here I was, a natural ally and I was being discarded and basically discriminated/told I was worthless and should just die because of how I looked. Wasn't there a bloody Civil Rights movement to stop that very thing?

I began to realize that I wasn't really wanted there and people who looked like me weren't wanted either because we "never would get it." This is the constituency of the new Democratic Party by the way and we're seeing this is elections all across the country. Basically I decided I needed to disengage which I did for the most part. Then SAFE Act happened and got me to reading, reexamining political and philosophical works and the Constitution with a critical eye and also not accept everything the MSM regurgitates as Gospel truth. I began to realize that the great unwashed, uneducated masses may actually be on to something even if the RINOs who ultimately represent them may not have their best interest at heart. Basically at it stands today I view most people on the left not with anger or hatred but with pity since they are so uninformed and misguided (much as how I used to view conservatives). I would also add that the conservative circles that I've flowed into and out of have been very welcoming and accepting as opposed to many of the liberal groups that I at one point tried to align myself with.

One other thing I would say begat my awakening: entering the workforce. Right now I work for a non-profit which is a bit outside the normal realm of private sector work for most but I think these experiences still rings true whether one works in the public sector, private sector, or a sort of gray area like I do. I, as many Leftists, used to believe that there are Haves and Have-Nots in this world and the Haves got what they got because they were born into privilege and their ancestors/families exploited the Have-Nots. The Have-Nots were exclusively good who no matter how hard they worked couldn't get a break because the Haves were keeping the down. It was a very black and white view of the world that I think most Leftists have because they need a simple philosophy to adhere to to make sense of their world. The reality is that there are not two extremes but rather a bell curve with shades of grey in the middle. Sure some people are dealt a bad blow and are exploited and some who come from old money have the world on a silver platter but most folks are somewhere in-between. I've seen people who come from literally nothing and who grew-up crappy circumstances rise to become hugely successful (that's the American Dream in a nutshell isn't it and it can only happen here) and so-called privileged people squander their resources. I also saw a lot of people get good jobs and promotions who had absolutely no business getting them because of either ass-kissing office politics, good old boy and good old girl networks (regardless of what the feminists say "good old girl" networks do exist and I personally have not advanced as much in my career as I would like because of one...my office predominantly female), affirmative action or the like. I've also seen obscenely obtuse and lazy people (of all socioeconomic classes and races) who have an entitlement mentality think they deserve something because of their mere existence. The world doesn't owe you, me or anyone shit! But it's the Leftists who want to reward the do-nothings with the hard earnings of the productive people like me and probably most folks on this forum.

Here's the too long; didn't read version: Once I realized that virtually all of the Leftists groups didn't want me because I have white skin and a penis (but were happy to take my money which is ironic since they weren't doing any of this for money supposedly) I did a very hard reconsider of my philosophical views and the views of those who held opposing viewpoints. My view is that the Democratic Party and other Left Wing groups is becoming (has become really) the party(ies) of racial/religious/sexual minorities, feminists, and full-bore no compromise communists. Moderate white folks (especially heterosexual males) need not apply (but please do give us donations). I, like most people, know where I'm not wanted, and will go instead to where I am.

The Left has been all about identity politics for the past decade or so. If they keep pushing white males (and even white females more and more) pretty soon the political parties will be fractured along racial lines, far more than it even is right now. And that is a terrible thing.

Yea man this really echos my experience well. I really think that if you want to be a leftist as a straight white dude you really need to hate yourself to be accepted. I’ve experienced this with some real diehards. You can tell to some degree they deep down do not like themselves, nor society for that matter.

 

[Bob]

I registered as a democrat and got to vote against the Hildabeast twice in the last election. I'm going to have a hard time giving that up.

I changed my registration to Dem so I could vote against Cuomo twice. Defeating him in the primary very well may be the only way we get rid of that nasty disease.

 

[masterswimmer]

I changed my registration to Dem so I could vote against Cuomo twice. Defeating him in the primary very well may be the only way we get rid of that nasty disease.

Ditto

 

[livingston]

 

[ArmedCorgi]