Jonathan Krohn: Former CPAC Teen Star, Three Years Later

[iceaura]

“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
Winston Churchill 1874-1965

Almost every person who posts that quote is ideologically closer to what Winston meant by "liberal", and demographically as well as in personality closer to what Winston meant by "twenty", but they all seem to think Winston was praising them for their brains.


What the Republican campaign tacticians did to the word "liberal" back a few years has crippled many Americans' ability to learn from books and history. That may be its most important benefit, for them.

I might also add if he's like the rest of the public he'll soon be obese, addicted to watching sports and take his marching orders from talking heads like Maddow or the conservative equivalent

There is no conservative equivalent.

once in University he became classic-Liberal (as a young man), as an adult I suspect he'll be socially Liberal and fiscally conservative.

There is no such definable category as classic-Liberal. And that points to something kind of interesting: you don't know what to call someone like this kid. You have no name for his current approach or ideology.

He appears to be more libertarian than anything else.

[pjdude1219]

“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
Winston Churchill 1874-1965

This kids seems about right on target, as a child he thought as his conservative society thought (family), as a young man he thinks as his peers think (school and Uni friends) and maybe as a man he'll actually think for himself.

Thinks for himself comment from the guy who more religiously spouts Ron Paul and libertarian talking points than mist lefty and righties.