An online movement titled Walk Away, led by Brandon Straka, a young, gay, former liberal, is urging young voters who hold liberal values to wake up to the fact that the Democratic party is no longer a liberal party but is rather the antithesis of the values liberals hold.
He documents his indictment of the contemporary Democratic Party in this impressive video: An article at PJMedia gives some background on the Walk Away movement:
Young people do not like President Donald Trump, but whites between the ages of 18 and 34 said they are equally likely to vote for a Republican as for a Democrat in the elections for Congress this November.He's right, of course. Today's conservatives are in fact classical liberals, whereas today's leftist progressives have more in common with the totalitarians of the 20th century and the tyrants of Orwell's 1984, than they do with anything that can rightly be called "liberal".
A full 39 percent said that "if the election for U.S. Congress were held today," they would vote for the Republican in the district where they live. Another 39 percent said they would vote for the Democrat.
This represented a nine-point shift away from Democrats since 2016. That year, only 33 percent of young white voters said they would elect a Republican to Congress, while 47 percent said they would choose a Democrat.
Young white men made the greatest shift toward the GOP. In 2016, nearly half of them (48 percent) said they would vote for a Democrat, while only 36 percent said they would vote Republican. This year, 46 percent said they would choose a Republican, while only 37 percent said they would vote Democrat — a 21 percent shift in favor of the GOP.
Brandon Straka, a gay man from Nebraska, identified himself as "The Unsilent Majority" and launched a campaign urging people to reject the Left — for the same reasons he became a liberal.
In the "Walk Away" viral video, Straka denounced racism, misogyny, "tyrannical group think," junk science, "hate," and "a system which allows an ambitious, misinformed, and dogmatic mob to suppress free speech, create false narratives, and apathetically steamroll over the truth." He said he became a liberal for these reasons, and he "walked away" for the very same reasons.
"For years now, I have watched as the left has devolved into intolerant, inflexible, illogical, hateful, misguided, ill-informed, un-American, hypocritical, menacing, callous, ignorant, narrow-minded, and at times blatantly fascistic behavior and rhetoric," Straka declared.
Straka's video makes a compelling argument in support of the claim that no one who loves freedom and abhors hatred should feel comfortable in today's Democratic Party.
