I was wrong about the Democratic Party #walkaway

hi i'm georgia and i live in la and this is my walk away video so i uh voted democrat my entire life but i walked away in about december of 2018 and it was hard for me to um make this video because i know kind of how people feel about conservatives especially if they're trump voters and you know i i didn't really want to think that people would be feeling that way about me but um that's actually why i think it's really important to make this video when i kind of busted out of the democrat echo chamber um that's when i realized like how warped and inaccurate my whole perception of conservatives was and i want to kind of make this video to um help explain to some people like the things that i didn't understand maybe in 2016. so i was born and raised in massachusetts in like a pretty progressive community or in a pretty progressive environment and um like a lot of people who grow up in like blue states i was raised basically to be a democrat so you know from a young age i was kind of taught this story about american politics and the story kind of goes you know democrats are the good guys they are looking out for the little guy and republicans are the bad guys they are for the rich they may be like exploit um they are bigots you know in the case of women it's like they want to control your body etc and this whole story is very emotionally resonant especially for like a teenager when you kind of learn it because it kind of taps into that idea of like good versus evil and you want to kind of be on the side of good and if i'm really honest um probably the only issue that i even leaned left on really uh growing up was gay marriage and in massachusetts in the early 2000s this was kind of like a hot button issue for us and i had gay friends at school and so for me like i was totally pro gay marriage and so that was um that was like basically the thing that made me decide that i was going to be a democrat and i didn't really to be honest know too much else about the platform even from the start and certainly during like my early years in adulthood there were kind of cracks in this story and things that made me have my doubts and my whole walk away story is basically like the story of me ignoring those clues ignoring the cracks and just like putting them aside putting them aside putting them aside until i kind of reached this point in 2018 that i couldn't anymore like it was like it was too much it's almost embarrassing to kind of tell you about like all the things that i ignored um but that's that's kind of the story of this whole walk away thing is like all those things that we ignored until we couldn't ignore them anymore and that was kind of what happened to me okay so i'm just going to jump in um when i was 22 i joined i graduated college and i joined this program called teach for america so i've always been very passionate about educational equality and this program was basically a program that trains teachers and puts them in low-income schools to help uh turn those schools around and what i didn't know at that time um was that teach for america or tfa was kind of becoming like a very woke organization so like in 2020 you probably kind of know what i mean when i say woke so for example we would have a lot of group discussions about like oppressor and oppressed and that's where i first learned words like microaggression and systemic racism that kind of thing and this was my first job and i really i was very impressed with my peers and i really wanted to fit in and i was definitely like very on board with this whole goal of you know helping these schools and helping these kids in these neighborhoods but very early on i was bothered and uncomfortable with the way um the way the sort of higher-ups in this organization were framing our conversations around race uh it felt unhealthy so i really didn't like how i felt like we were being coached to like take offense at a lot of little things and to kind of like sniff out racism you know in our peers or in other people and i really didn't think it was healthy the way my black peers were kind of you know coached to or pushed to kind of dredge up like generational grievances and you know interpret sort of benign interactions as like microaggressions i mean i can't really think of anything more sort of psychologically abusive than like training people to um sort of live in a state of resentment and i kind of felt like this organization was kind of pushing that on my black peers and you know of course if you're white like me you kind of just like become accustomed to you know everyone kind of just like dumps on your race your race all the time and you know it's of course it's like irritating and like not constructive at all but you kind of like are trained to think that there's something sort of valuable or moral about doing that and kind of all of this felt to me sort of alien and kind of backwards from the morality i had been raised with i thought we'd all been raised with where you're like supposed to judge people by the content of their character um or like basically like anything except the color of their skin and sometimes people would say like hey you know like this shouldn't we be you know doing what martin luther king said like judging people by the content of their character and like that was one of the wrong opinions there were there were right opinions and there were wrong opinions and that was one of the ones that you have to learn as a wrong opinion it would kind of be told something like you know in order to like honor the legacy of dr martin luther king we need to kind of go beyond his prescription of focusing on character and we need to kind of dig in and really understand how race you know informs all aspects of uh american culture or american institutions so these things were kind of explained with kind of um academic speak that sort of had a patina of plausibility especially for like a 22 year old who uh didn't have any life experience and i mean certainly there were kind of nuggets of wisdom that were in there that would kind of like draw you in and certainly like as a white person this ideology sort of like breaks you down and kind of uh breaks down your own sort of trust in your own moral compass because people are kind of telling you you know um your opinions aren't really as valid as someone else's because you don't have like the correct like lived experience to fully understand the situation so needless to say there was a lot of crying and stress and unhappiness uh involved with this organization and as an adult you know i look back on that and i'm like you know those are clear signs of a toxic work culture um but back then i was naive you know um we were basically told um that our discomfort was like part of the process um and or like our discomfort was us clinging to our privilege or it was like our white fragility you know they had all these kind of terms that functioned to normalize the very toxic cognitive dissonance that we were experiencing and sort of they had all this language that served to kind of make us feel shame and uh and doubt about our doubts made us made us feel bad for even like having questions about the things that we were being told there were also a fair amount of like no-go topics so for example you know you couldn't ever mention anything about how like culture might affect academic performance so because that would be considered like blaming the victim so like never mention asian students for example none of that another no-go topic was you should not uh you should not reference any sort of or affirm any sort of generational progress so um for example uh people would get really ruffled if you were to kind of suggest that like maybe racism doesn't play as large a role in our school failures today as like 50 years ago like that was like a no and no go and this kind of intellectual gatekeeping was really a red flag for me pretty early on um it was this was something that uh really got to me because my feeling is you know this is not how you this is not how you approach a problem when you really want to solve the problem so the thing that really snapped me out of this whole sjw thing and frankly i i'm not really sure that i was ever in it but um the thing that really like solidified for me that i did not want to be a part of this way of thinking was my students so i i loved my students and i had this extremely strong gut instinct that i do not want i do not want them exposed to this kind of ideology this is not going to be good for them i do not want them entering the world feeling like they are victims i wanted them to feel like they had this totally bright future and that you know if they just work hard you know that it could that it's totally possible for them and it's not that i did not acknowledge the injustice i mean i was massively stressed about sort of the injustice that my kids faced you know by dint of attending this like school system that was you know totally totally inferior to the ones say that like i had attended um but what i didn't want was for them to internalize that as you know a reason to give up so i was very cognizant sort of from the beginning and throughout of like always being a cheerleader always be a cheerleader when i was growing up i had you know one of my older cousins she was always like my biggest cheerleader and when i was with her i felt like i could do anything i could be anything and so that was sort of the sort of guiding north star that i kept throughout this program is like that's who i want to be for my students and this whole like victim mentality like that has no place that has no place in in our classroom in our relationship you know or in my kids heads frankly at all at that time i did not i didn't comprehend that this was like at all a political stance and i certainly didn't comprehend that my instinct and this uh in this regard was like deeply conservative you know as far as i as far as i knew as far as i was taught you know conservatives don't give a damn about my kids you know they only care about themselves they only care about you know shareholders or whatever so it never crossed my mind that like i might like be one of these dreaded conservatives um but the experience did wake me up to the destructiveness of identity politics and it did kind of clue me in that this was kind of like a creature of the left um this whole identity politics thing although it was much like in the mainstream it was much less than it is today and it also taught me the super valuable lesson that a lot of people who claim to be fighting racism like are like absolutely doing nothing of the sort and basically at this point like the louder the person is about fighting racism like the more suspicious i am uh of their ability to do that in any way being part of like a social justice organization brought me into contact with a fair amount of uh people like that and it taught me that there is a certain type of person uh who makes like fighting racism sort of a part of their identity and the problem with that is you know as noble as it sounds the problem with that is if you know the existence of a problem is part of a person's identity they become very threatened by the idea of like that problem being resolved and and they may even engage in like sabotage behaviors which frankly i think a lot of this woke ideology is a sabotage is a sabotage effort and i mean that's why you see some of these people kind of desperately trying to expand the definition of racism so that like there's always going to be a sufficient amount of it that they can like continue wallowing in their like heroic uh in their heroic identity and there's very there's very there's a a very clear distinction between those people and like the real deal like martin luther king because someone like martin luther king actually had a vision for a time in the future where this problem wouldn't be there like his goal his future his vision was a vision for the future where he did not need to did not need to have this problem and that is distinctly different from the crew of people i think we see today more than ever of people who who don't really want to move past this problem because they have a lot of like personal investment in the problem all right so i also saw pretty quick that a lot of this progressive ideology had percolated through um the school system like from kind of the department of education level and we had all these kind of policies um at our district that were theoretically designed to kind of help the most vulnerable students and kind of give them a boost and of course that sounds great in theory but in practice like they were a complete disaster so for example it was like nearly impossible to give a student a failing grade um it was really difficult to give like um a disciplinary consequence for really egregious behavior um i mean we had like kids if they got expelled the district would like overturn it a few days later and they'd be back in the school you know so the the standards for the graduation basically were just dirt low it basically created this situation for um the 90 of kids who want to learn who are doing the right thing where they're not able to learn because um we were kind of forced to coddle and bend the rules for this lowest performing 10 and it was spoiling the opportunities for the other 90 you know it was a joke and kids would kind of learn like wow school is a joke you would think you know um with how spectacularly bad the test scores were and with like the basically zoo like chaos in the hallways um and just like catastrophic failure year after year you would you'd think that like the department of education would maybe rethink some of their policies question them but like no they never do what they do is they just kind of double down on more of the same you know more like more of these compassionate policies that just like spiral our standards i mean it's like we are chasing our standards down a swirling toilet at this point in in the department of education and it was during that time when i worked in education that i became really uncomfortable with um the sort of patronizing attitude that i sensed from the political left towards uh minority students or minority people in general i was kind of developing a very deep sense that a lot of these policies these compassionate policies were kind of undergirded with this deep belief that you know some people specifically like black people are not really capable of meeting the same standards that white people are you know you need to like give them accommodations that we can like even the playing field which is is frankly like it's just like a pc like sort of friendly way of saying like oh go easy on them you know because they're not like us and i remember seeing like a quote from george w bush about the soft bigotry of low expectations and i remember thinking like being like kind of surprised and confused that like a republican said that because you know i always thought of like republicans don't care about racism they're maybe racist themselves and like democrats the ones who are the ones who care about racism but here was like this republican president who was like speaking exactly my mind about the sort of nature of racism in america today anyway there is so much more wrong with the school system and actually it's kind of a microcosm for how the problems with the left in general but i'm just going to give you like maybe two more examples so this is going to blow your mind um the department of education is when i say it is like a bloated disaster of a bureaucracy let me just explain like for every one teacher that was hired in my district from memphis city schools which was like there were thousands of teachers there were two administrators hired and virtually all of them worked sort of at uh the central office which was basically like the size of a small shopping mall it was huge um so more than half of our budget to like do things for the department of education was going towards adults who like did not even work in the schools and so for for perspective like you know i never had a class with less than 30 students my second year i had um a special needs class with 37 kids we didn't even have school buses to transport our school uh sports teams to their events we had to have parents and teachers drive them you know we were operating on a shoestring and more than half of our funds were going to i assume this central office and you know i i knew on some level that like big government bureaucracy that that's like sort of a more of a left-wing thing but to be honest like it was just it was just like another thing it was just another thing that i put in a box that i put away that i just didn't think about because i just legitimately thought that democrats were the only like were the only acceptable option if you're not just like a horrible person um meanwhile i had colleagues who worked at charter schools and so if you don't know charter schools are kind of like they're also free they're public but they are sort of less connected to the department of education they're more independent anyway so they receive less funding per student but my colleagues were making like 15 000 more per year than me as a teacher and they had like 20 kids in a class and their kids were succeeding you know i observed some of their classes and it was like night and day when you compare the public school to the charter schools even back then i knew that charter schools were kind of like political but i didn't fully understand the true details of them of that i knew on some level that conservatives were pro-charter they wanted to expand charters expand school choice and i knew that democrats were they knew that the teachers union was against charters and that the democrats were largely funded by the teachers union but to be honest like this was like during the obama years and you know i just looked at president obama i thought he was so impressive so articulate whatever i just kind of like trusted that the democrats had their reasons for doing things that they do and so you know even though it seemed crazy to me i just i trusted i trusted the brand you know i trusted the democrat brand to do the right thing for my kids and what a lot of people don't realize now you know a lot of people in a few weeks from now are gonna go to the polls they're gonna vote for joe biden and they're not gonna know that their vote they're voting to shut down charter schools in minority neighborhoods they just don't know okay so um enough about schools i kind of want to talk about the media because another part of like my change of heart was when i learned like how how corrupt our media is so in around 2013 i remember there was this kind of media trend um where we would see like a video a short video of a teacher a white teacher in some sort of altercation with a black student or like a white school resource officer you know yanking someone out of their desk or whatever and it would be like this big sensational thing and we would have like all these articles about you know the systemic systemic racism that like supposedly pervades our schools and like i immediately knew i was like you know like i had just come from a school district where you know a teacher could get pushed down the stairs by a student you know fully down a flight of stairs they could break a bone whatever and the student would barely get a consequence so i knew that this whole this whole tale they're trying to spin i knew that this was not really reflective of reality and i felt bad for these teachers that were kind of being slandered as racist like purely based on the color of their skin i also kind of learned from observing this little trend how the media lies so they lie without specifically telling you lies they sort of lie by cherry-picking stories and then they crop the videos and then they omit certain important details and then they kind of squash other kinds of stories so it kind of creates this effect of like seeing this like trend that in real life like does not does not exist so it was kind of like deja vu when um ferguson happened and like blm kind of sprung up and i was i'll be honest i was immediately skeptical of the michael brown story so i waited for the doj report to come out and i read it and i saw yeah like we were lied to like massively lied to if you haven't read it you should and this was the first time that i really saw sort of the sinister side of what the media is doing so with the teacher thing that like kind of irked me but with the blm thing this time we were seeing like a majority black community be basically burnt to the ground in the name of racial justice and it was all kind of spawned by a media story that was a lie like a full cloth lie and that's how i that's when i also started seeing how the uh democrat party um kind of was pandering to black voters sort of while capitalizing on their fear that was the first time that i really got angry at the democrats and at the media because i felt like you know what i see what you're doing to black americans and it's not okay you know it's like you you act like you're on their side like blah blah blah about racism but you're not on their side you're you're trying to make them afraid because you think you have something to gain from them being afraid that's cruel that's cruel that's you're a bully i mean it's like you're the exact thing that you're claiming to be fighting against i actually disaffiliated from the democrats um around the time that hillary made that comment about like hot sauce in my purse you know that was like disgusting to me that was when i first kind of caught the scent that the democrat party not only like wasn't the friend of black americans like they were they were actively harming them um you know kind of sort of going out of their way to generate fear and then then to turn around and say oh but don't worry like we'll protect you and you know see i'm your friend i have this hot sauce in my purse like it was so cheap and like like i could see straight through it it was so it was so cheap and it was it was gross but for whatever reason for whatever well i know for because i was brainwashed i continued to believe everything else that they said that the media said that the democrats said about president trump because i had this like kind of script in my mind that you know republicans are uh are bigots they're for the rich blah blah blah and so i was kind of like lulled by you know um reporting that sort of confirmed that idea that i had so around 2017 2018 i also started noticing kind of another troubling trend so the trend i noticed was that news reporters that were reporting on president trump like hated him and of course i hated him too but i was disturbed to see all this kind of gratuitous uh editorializing in their reporting you know i have some old school reporters in my family and i had sort of heard in passing once when i was younger that you should never be able to tell how reporter votes from the way they cover a topic that's how you know that's just part of journalistic ethics and so i became a little bit suspicious and just concerned about the ability of these reporters to really give me the facts in like a straight manner and so this is really nuts so at that time i got most of my news just like from the apple news app and i didn't curate too rigorously which sources it was mostly you know mainstream sources uh new york times whatever but every once in a while um like an outlet an article from some place like daily wire or some place like that would pop into my feed and i would read it and i would think i would read it and i would think like oh my gosh like thank god there is some other sane person on this earth like thank you for noticing this like um and you know i i like i would feel like this like spark of intellectual connection with this person um but then i would have this sort of spidey sense that like you know oh this i think this might be a conservative outlet you know and i would think to myself like i don't think i don't think my people would want me reading this stuff so you know no more of that you know like that was a little treat but like i can't make a habit of it and like it's so insane to admit but like that was kind of how i thought about it um and it really goes to show like how strong how strong the thought policing is among the left that like you worry about what people think about just your thoughts i also noticed this fairly concerning trend of like were things that trump said that seemed crazy would turn out to be true so for example when he said that obama wiretapped his campaign offices of course everyone said it was crazy and whatever and i thought he was just like speaking off the cuff saying crazy things but then oh lo and behold you know months later evidence starts bubbling up that like they did in fact listen in on his on his phones and during his campaign and so like i noticed that you know cnn when this came out it's like they issue like sort of a terse little paragraph that's like you know there was some you know surveillance during the trump campaign at trump tower but it was like all above board and like you know it's not even necessarily confirmed accounts like trump could still be lying about this and like you know moving on nothing to see here folks and like the story would die like it would be it would be up for like a day and then like it would be gone and like a similar thing would happen when it comes to like controversial trump quotes so i remember there were so many times that i would see like a whole flurry of articles come up about some really offensive quote that trump said so i would go and i would listen to the quote or look at the quote and i would see it and i would think like like maybe i'm crazy but like this isn't like that racist it's more just like a foot in mouth like it's like off-putting but like i don't know if this like indicates like genocidal tendencies like by any stretch of the imagination you know like it kind of sounded like this is a guy from queens kind of talking like a guy from queens and like how does anyone not immediately see that and i started getting annoyed that like you know with like the phony pearl clutching over like every little thing that he said i mean i still assumed that he was racist of course that's what they told me but i was kind of wondering like why the media was like wasting all their time on these like kind of weak examples like if you know bring us some strong examples like why would you need to waste your time with this so probably the thing that bothered me the most was sort of the broad and rampant and like totally unapologetic disparagement of trump's voters i was most sort of shook to see like friends and family and people i knew to be like good and decent kind of writing off trump voters as like deplorable you know 63 million americans like racist transphobic you know deplorable and i heard that come out of the mouth of people who i like knew to be like kind and gentle people and i just was thinking like you wouldn't have you wouldn't have said that on your own like the tv must have taught you that because that's not who you are and that i kind of was that was kind of where i started really putting together like how divisive our media is because like in the way that it's able to brainwash like good decent people into hating their neighbors you know into just blindly disparaging huge swaths of you know their uh of this population you know brainwashing them into thinking it's like praiseworthy even to demonstrate contempt for like millions of americans that they've never met so i've spoken about how democrats kind of fear monger to black americans but uh i haven't yet mentioned how i kind of began to realize how they fear monger to women so for years i was kind of conditioned to think that like you know every election is a potential attack on roe v wade which is de facto an attack on women so in 2017 i graduated nursing school and i became an emergency department nurse so i won't go any like into any you know gruesome details and i don't want to get sanctimonious on the concept but suffice it to say my experiences as a nurse made me feel really differently about abortion as an er nurse i see miscarriage up close um so for example like if you know when miscarriage happens in the er it's the nurse who is there with the woman and we take away the body so that's something i'm exposed to and it's something um you know it's part of my it's part of my work you know i i think it was probably the day i think it was the day that i saw a woman miscarry at 20 weeks that i kind of reached a turning point and i remember walking down the hall in the hospital and thinking to myself you know i'm ready to let go of my attachment to this abortion issue you know i i don't have any fight left in me for this it kind of clicked in my mind that you know conservatives aren't trying to control my body you know that message was kind of running as like a background script in my mind because i'd been told i had been given that message so young but sort of this experience kind of made me kind of become conscious of it and when i became conscious of it i realized like how absurd like how absurd that that whole idea is and i look back on that moment as kind of the moment i opened my mind you know it's not like i became suddenly overnight uh pro-life but i um that was the moment i kind of lost my fear i no longer felt attacked and i kind of got this new like emotional distance from politics that allowed me to kind of like see things from um sort of a cooler head and to be honest like it kind of knocked me off my like moral high horse a little bit because it made me realize like oh wow some things i thought maybe were obvious or i was taught were obvious like maybe i was wrong and you know what else like what else am i wrong about if i was wrong about that what else was i wrong about as an er nurse i also see you know similar to when i was a teacher i i also see like a lot of the the nitty-gritty of reality that i think some of my like progressive affluent peers maybe don't see working in the er i was again seeing a lot of these kind of like woke progressive policies that are compassionate but like you know in practice they are kind of a disaster um so for example i saw i saw the ways in which the hospital system is abused you know people come in for drugs they come in um for things that they should get elsewhere but it's free so whatever um or for homeless people they come in for a place to sleep and those kind of inappropriate uses of the health care system are driving up the costs for all the regular people the people who are paying into it and at that time i was working in an area that um in a hospital that served a lot of homeless people and that's a big issue here in l.a because it's kind of a ballooning out of control this homeless population um and because of that my because of the a lot of the work that i did with homeless people i kind of saw another sort of iteration of the sort of bottomless standards that progressivism kind of uh courts into society so in other societies i think if a person like drops their pants and takes a crap on the sidewalk or like you know throws an open bottle of urine at a registered nurse like they would like people would be horrified and they would get a consequence but you know here especially in california i mean if you if a person sort of checks certain intersectional boxes like i mean you they can do whatever and nobody bats an eye and you know us californians i feel like we tolerate a lot of really egregious behavior because we want to be compassionate and we want you know we feel bad enforcing any kind of consequences on people but letting that behavior kind of go on and become acceptable really is is punishing for the middle class and all the people who are just trying to like raise their families in a clean and safe environment and frankly like that's not compassionate it's not compassionate to them and you know i noticed that sometimes i would kind of vent my frustrations to my family and friends who are basically all progressive and i felt like you know i was sometimes made to feel like an [ __ ] for kind of having these frustrations like as if there's something um like morally degenerate about wanting to champion regular people or like you know holding certain victims accountable in in any capacity and it's basically become taboo to ask like you know is this compassionate policy actually compassionate is actually helping anyone you know is it compassionate to decriminalize petty theft you know that that's is that compassionate to our business owners many of whom like are small businesses you know is it compassionate to allow a tent city to crop up in front of like an immigrant's bodega business like is that compassionate i started to feel pretty strongly that my kind of like progressive peers had a certain blindness like there was there was a blindness to the way these compassionate policies kind of punish uh punish this sort of silent group of law-abiding people and there was there's sort of this blindness to the social entropy that you know inevitably follows when you give up on enforcing standards you know and there's a blindness to the resentment that gets fomented when you know regular law-abiding people feel like chumps for following the rules you know you can't have a society where people feel like chumps for following the rules like like why you know why bother following the rules if you live in a society like that you know and it's not fair it's not fair to those people and it's it's a recipe for unraveling sort of in a longer-term sense and it was about that time in late 2018 right after the election that i started hearing about this like beautiful charismatic young congresswoman aoc who was kind of championing socialism and she was my same age but unlike me you know her only experience at that time was bartending so here's this woman who you know has never taught a day in the public schools has never worked a day as a nurse on the front lines in the er but she was kind of championing out there with like a bullhorn um all these policies that were the same like woke garbage that i have been fighting against my entire career keywords being like entire career and like i don't you know i don't want to be overly harsh like i actually you know i find aoc a little bit likable and impressive even in some ways but the things that she was saying like policy wise you know like they were to me as a as a veteran teacher as a registered nurse like they were beyond parody i mean like they were just naive beyond parody but the thing that stunned me was seeing you know smart and serious members of the democratic party like taking her seriously i mean that that blew me away and that was the first time that i was kind of able to see that like we as a party democrats had become like kind of a vapid laughing stock and i was embarrassed i was embarrassed to be a democrat you know and i always thought of the democrats as like the party of educated people and i kind of um had sort of a pride in that like that i might be part of that like elite group um but suddenly i was kind of seeing how frivolous and uh sheltered and hubristic that whole kind of mindset was anyways i kind of had this feeling at that point of like i don't belong here anymore like i like i'm a grown woman you know i've seen too much and i have been cleaning up the messes from these progressive politicians like for my whole career and i'm done with it i'm done with it and to be honest i had i had other things also that were kind of swirling around in my mind at that time i was livid seeing democrats you know tearing down the legacy of this country disparaging our founders disparaging our people disparaging our values as if it's like some sort of sign of virtue to like talk [ __ ] about your own country which is really just a way of saying like all you people suck but like i'm different you know um and i'd also like to had it up to my ears with like the transgender stuff the pure insanity of pumping prepubescent children with drugs to arrest their puberty like you don't have like i am a nurse you don't have to be a nurse to be like hold on like what red flag no you know i i had at this point just felt like the walls of crazy were closing in and i just like was out of there like a bat out of hell and it's funny because even though i was like just red-hot angry at the democrats you know i still had my irrational sort of pre-programmed fears of republicans you know from kind of all those years of brainwashing and even though i leaned to the right on most issues i still had this little voice in my head telling me that like yeah those people maybe agree with you but they don't agree with you for the right reasons like you're not one of them which is of course like such a deranged and like hubristic thought but you know that's that's part of like the democrat moral universe is you have to buy into that you know that a republican can have a good idea but they're not allowed to have that idea for any sort of good reasons but i did feel like you know if i can't vote democrat like maybe i should just like listen to what these conservatives have to say because like what else am i gonna do not vote that is when i went down the rabbit hole i started listening to kind of like long-form interviews with people like dave rubin and eventually i found ben shapiro the dreaded ben shapiro at first i actually felt really guilty for like listening to conservative ideas as if there's like something naughty about like listening to wrong think which some of you maybe feel bad listening to all my wrong think but again like it just it just shows you how strong how strong the brainwashing is that we don't even let ourselves think for ourselves even though we know we know we're holding in our thoughts and we still do it and on some level i was also like afraid that i might actually agree with these people you know because if i agreed with them that would kind of mean that now now i'm kind of like outside of my tribe you know and even if i even if i held my opinions in and i stayed silent around my friends and family like there's still something really lonely about feeling like like even if they don't know it like i know like i know that i don't that i don't fit in anymore but to be honest like i had kind of reached a point of no return where i felt like i need to think for myself and i need it like i need oxygen because i because i was just like so surrounded by so much crazy for so long that i just was like i was like starved i was i felt like i was starved for actual stuff that makes sense so i started listening to people like dave rubin and ben shapiro and larry elder and i remember thinking oh my gosh like there are people out there like just like speaking their mind like speaking totally freely and making sense and uh like hallelujah like i am not alone no i'm i'm not alone like thinking the way i think so in the past you know my exposure to conservative thought had basically been like this would sound like a joke but like basically it was limited to you know clips of sebastian gorka shouting someone down for 45 seconds on cnn so now i was kind of listening to these conservative arguments like fully explained in their strongest form and it was like nothing short of like it was nothing short of an awakening like i don't use that word lightly like i felt like i felt like my whole like left wing uh brainwashing and programming i felt like it was falling like a house of cards and all the things that hadn't made sense that for years i was like forcing myself to just ignore the fact it didn't make sense it was like all of a sudden that stuff was falling away and i didn't have to i didn't have to believe things that i didn't really believe i only have to believe things that are true that have evidence oh my god life-changing life-changing you know and i won't go into all the reasons that i really respect conservatism as like a philosophy because i mean that would take like that would be like a whole other video or like a whole other like set of tones um but i will say this uh the whole experience of like breaking out of the progressive hive mind or like the progressive echo chamber was a pretty profound experience and it made me realize a few things first it made me realize that our mainstream media is garbage i mean like i knew it was i knew there were some problems no like it it is goes out of the way not just to not tell you things but to obscure the truth to twist the truth to tell you something that is the opposite of the truth it is that bad and what the other thing i kind of learned is that that same media if you don't if you don't know what it's doing it controls us on a profound level i mean i went through years of ignoring ignoring clues ignoring clues ignoring clues because i was sort of washed over with this media that told me the things that i see with my eyes and ears in real life those aren't real the stuff on the telly is real you know don't believe your own eyes and ears like believe the television and for years i did you know and i think of myself as like as like a good critical thinker or like someone who thinks for themselves but you know i was duped for years so at this point in my life you know i can proudly say like i am a conservative woman and like i'm i have no shame now saying that because now i know what it means to to say you're a conservative and all the reasons that i thought i was a democrat you know after i after i went through you know all these experiences in my life all those reasons i thought i was a democrat you know being tolerant being caring about fairness all those reasons i thought i was a democrat are now the reasons that i well going forward i'm a voting republican if anyone's still watching the super long video thanks for watching and uh god bless usa

Channel: Georgia H

Views: 1,736,137

Rating: 4.8274708 out of 5

Keywords: #walkaway, walkawaycampaign, aoc, tfa, teachforamerica, election2020, woke, marxism

Id: flp7gKg5G4E

Length: 47min 21sec (2841 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 20 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/tmarino721]

This is so beautifully spoken. It’s a bit long, but definitely worth the watch

[u/foxyramirez]

I walked away early on. Was a Democrat for over a decade. The way they have turned my sexuality into in advertising gimmick makes me mad as hell. Beyond that, in my investigation into what causes high crime rates generationally in minorities, I could only come to the conclusion that welfare policies have incentivized single parent homes, which increases crime rates and mental disorder in children by magnitudes.

[u/NewHampshireGal]

I watched the whole thing. I am also originally from Mass. My mother’s ancestors arrived in Mass in 1635 so we have a long history in the state. However, they are mostly Conservative.

I also thought I was a Democrat but after joining the Army I realized their “values” don’t represent me. I am the daughter of a mixed race legal immigrant from Brazil. My father has a second grade education but worked hard throughout the years and invested in real state and made millions. He spoke English with a very heavy accent and never used his skin color or his cultural background as an excuse to play the victim.

I walked away from the Democratic Party in 2010 and I have zero regrets.

[u/goTrumpGo2]

Nice

[u/alucard9114]

Any organization that does not support free thinking and or alternative views are attacked that is more a cult than a legitimate organization or belief system. She says after I broke out of my echo chamber this seems to be the first words out of a walk away story.

[u/Equiles]

Anyone know her name? Or YouTube?

[u/[deleted]]

They try to make it seem as if everyone of one thing is only that. Like black, they think that they all love biden, yet most vote for trump. They try to sell their lies at the cost of others.

[u/amergent]

Thank you for sharing this.

[u/SixGunRebel]

Watched the entire video. This was probably a confirmation of sorts for herself and more of a video for her than anyone really watching. I think she’s developed not only an understanding of conservatism, but also has walked away with a certain awareness about her own existence.

With her living in California, seeing poor hygiene on the streets, tent cities, and explicitly mentioning decriminalizing petty theft; she gets a firsthand look at what happens when society regresses. California is setting itself backwards to secure votes. You don’t punish law breaking, people make a sport of it, and then continue to support draining those working to provide for those that do not and will not. It’s a reality check, a slap in the face, and wealth distribution isn’t fun for anyone. Knowing you’re paying the benefits of someone that openly steals makeup and can’t be punished for it or stopped would boil anyone’s blood.

All I can say is I wish her the best, in her life, dealing with family possibly ostracizing her, and trying to stay positive despite everything around her.