Scott Adams discusses his understanding of the Walk Away movement.
Essentially it is that this began because someone realized that his own team, such as he’d known them to be, were creating fear for purely political advantage.
Thoughts? Had you encountered this movement before?
Humorous aside: a typo almost had me posing about the Wak Away movement … but of course a thread about Fozzy Bear wouldn’t be in politics. 
My experience with walk away, is that, contrary to how it presents itself, is just generation Y taking their first steps into politics with very low stakes issues like gaming journalism ethics, and Trans exclusionary Radical Femininism.
This is the result of progressives being too successful. Same Sex Marriage is no longer an issue so young gay men and lesbians who haven’t taken an interest in politics before 2014 simply haven’t encountered the pro-discrimination posters in our adoption threads, for example. Gay marriage was an issue that conservatives were willing to go to jail over, I have no doubt that those people will make themselves visible again soon enough.
Rad fems below a certain age haven’t had to deconstruct a pro-life argument down to its basic ingredients because progressives were so successful at making sure women had as much choice as possible. It’s only a matter of time before they end up in murky waters of consent and property rights that will make them recoil away from the conservative position. I don’t have any concern about radfems actually staying away, their ideology demands strict adherence to ideals. They still believe in the wage gap, after all. They won’t last long on the right.
Young gaming men who would have been conservative anyway are just finally finding a reason to move to the right. They’re the only group that won’t walk back because they form their own social circles without moderating influences. They’re also the least likely to vote and most jaded and apathetic. Without a Trump to root for, they’ll just stay home. Real life sucks a lot for young men lately, they’ve got their hands full just staying alive and stable.
It’s actually really hard to flip people like this if they’ve already been seriously politically active. The brain demands justification for prior actions and current beliefs will yield to that need for consistency. If conservatives wanted to capture these young people for good, they would encourage them to vote in the upcoming midterm. Early voting is something that heavily favors the youth and minorites that the right is trying to capture with #walkaway. If the movement is actually substantial, conservatives should take the risk and try to bump up the turnout of these groups.
It’s a fake movement pushed almost entirely by Russians and people who weren’t actually Democrats to begin with.
The very premise is utter nonsense - the Democrats are “too mean” so you’re going to walk into the hands of Donald Flipping Trump? The Democrats are “scaremongering” so you’re going to switch to the side that screams constantly about MS13? Anybody doing that is an utter idiot.
Alas, how far Scott Adams has fallen. I used to love his books. Now he’s just another Trumpian loon.
This. It belongs in the same drawer as the “deep state” and other imaginings created by the CEC and Ruskie hackers.
[quote=“Rurudyne, post:1, topic:7802, full:true”]… a typo almost had me posing about the Wak Away movement … but of course a thread about Fozzy Bear wouldn’t be in politics.
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LOL
Great memories of the Muppet Show.
