Several years ago, conservatives were fawning over 13 year-old Jonathan Krohn, who gave a rousing speech at CPAC while promoting his book. A couple of weeks ago, Bill Maher, in the rant at the end of his show, explained that if middle school boys can explain your ideology, it’s because your ideology is on the level of a middle school aged boy. Krohn is seventeen now, and has matured beyond his CPAC days:
“I think it was naive,” Krohn now says of the speech. “It’s a 13-year-old kid saying stuff that he had heard for a long time.… I live in Georgia. We’re inundated with conservative talk in Georgia.… The speech was something that a 13-year-old does. You haven’t formed all your opinions. You’re really defeating yourself if you think you have all of your ideas in your head when you were 12 or 13. It’s impossible. You haven’t done enough.”
Krohn won’t go so far as to say he’s liberal, in part because his move away from conservatism was a move away from ideological boxes in general.
“I want to be Jonathan Krohn,” he said, “and I’m tired of being an ideology, and it’s not fun and it gets boring and it’s not who we are as individuals.”
Guess what he support? Marriage equality. Also: the Affordable Care Act. What a difference a few years of growing up makes. It’s a shame so few of the CPAC participants have undergone such growth.
[h/t Towleroad]
I thought people were supposed to get MORE conservative as they got older.
I believe that studies show that people become more liberal as they get older. Today, older people tend to be more conservative than younger people, but those older people were actually more conservative when they were younger.
God continues to move hearts and minds toward equality. God is good!
I was reading this at Towleroad, and noticed the story beneath about Bill Gates and the Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer:
http://www.towleroad.com/2012/07/microsofts-bill-gates-and-steve-ballmer-both-donate-100k-to-washington-marriage-fight.html
Does this mean that One Million Moms will boycott Microsoft now?
I sincerely hope so, as it will mean that they will have to shut their laptops, and perhaps go out and do something constructive or worthwhile (I doubt it though).
Does only the right stray?
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2012/06/larry_brinkin_chil_porn.php
Solomon Dougherty:
Anyone who isn’t a complete dolt gets the fact that you can find bad people everywhere. The difference between the left and the right, however, is the left acknowledges such flaws, while right wing politicians and the fools that elect them act holier than thou and pretend they are more pure than everyone else. It is their stinking hypocrisy that is the issue. These liars and frauds actually create political platforms that claim they are experts on family issues, all while having mistresses and misters and all sorts of bad and even filthy behavior. They project a pious attitude, even while engaged in serial moral turpitude.
So, please do not compare left and right. The left has bad actors and reprobates too, but they aren’t a bunch of moralizing, finger-wagging phonies who make lucrative careers pretending they have better values than everybody else. And liberals do not make laws they expect everyone else to live by — except themselves. But double standards and hypocrisy is sort of what modern conservatism is all about.
By commenting “does only the right stray” regarding Jonathan Krohn moving to the left while providing the link to the Brinkin story I must assume Solomon is implying that by indulging in child pornography Larry Brinkin is moving to the right. I must admit the racist comments Larry supposedly made might support that assertion.
That is a truly strange false equivalency. Solomon’s kind of a nut.