As soon as I saw it posted on my sister-in-law’s facebook page, I had a pretty good idea what this new #walkaway movement was all about...I just wasn’t ready for the abject anger that it would cause me to feel, which has led me vent some of it right here. Thank you for listening.
A quick google search (which I would encourage anyone else to do) showed that contrary to it being a genuine grassroots movement made up of disappointed and/or disillusioned Democrats who, because of all the “divisiveness” their party has allegedly caused the rest of the country, has forced them to reluctantly walk away... instead (according to wikipedia) they are just a phony front invented by some goofy GOP operative and pushed onto the rubes with a little help from those crafty elves down on the Russian troll farms.
Like I said, as soon as I saw that my sister-in-law and niece were meeting in D.C. for the #walkaway march I knew something already didn’t smell right. I hadn’t looked it up yet but knew them both well enough to know they weren’t there for the same kinds of reasons most people might march on the Capitol. I figured (correctly) that they weren’t there to march for anyone else’s civil rights or social justice of any sort because that just didn’t fit the pattern for neither my sister-in-law nor my niece.
I pictured them eating crab cakes and drinking mint juleps at some fat restaurant instead.
The last time my sister-in-law was a Democrat Strom Thurmond and George Wallace were too. As for my niece, she has never, ever been a Democrat. So yeah...keep on walking, willya. And then the more I thought about it the madder I got.
A grassroots movement of disappointed Democrats...disappointed with the divisiveness?
Mind you, this is brought to us by the very same people who gave us birtherism, anti-vaxxing, the Muslim ban, CAGING CHILDREN AT THE BORDER, gerrymandered and outright stolen elections, the murders of both Vince Foster and Seth Rich, Pizzgate, Benghazi and Lock her up, they denied us a Supreme Court Justice, doled out massive tax cuts for the super rich, derugulated banks, promoted climate change denial and anti-intellectualism, throw in wars with Iraq and ISIS, and now they are giving us a nice dose of consensual rape followed by a nice forced birth. Oh...and corporations are people, now.
And WE are the divisive ones. Projection much? Well, I have two words for you. F@#$ You.
Do I think that my sister-in-law and niece are in on the scheme? No, I think they drink that kool-ade that faux news serves up and genuinely can’t understand why so many people have shunned them lately, and are trying to prove (to themselves maybe) that they are the reasonable ones who just want to get along. It’s understandable that they don’t want to be associated with putting CHILDREN IN CAGES but they are... and will never, ever be able to escape from that stain on their party of choice.
They are not, nor have they ever been Democrats. That goes for that whole phony #walkaway.