Actually, I'm wondering if this whole wide-eyed hero worship of simplistic conservative ideology and its propagandists isn't the perfect thing to be tried on and discarded at a young age. After all, the brain isn't finished with its own architecture until the mid-20s anyway, so let him use these as practice ideas ahead of those days when he's able to deal with real rational discourse and grown-up ideas.
Come to think of it, isn't all this Reagan, Rand, Rush and R. Cheney star fucking about having the big, bad, complicated world explained to you in terms an early adolescent can understand? It's always seemed that way to me.
@RStewie: i think this kid probably has better reading comprehension than you! but you are obv far more skilled at the very adult practice of "purposefully missing the point."
We were a precocious, precious, well-spoken and bright young liberal atheist ourself at that age, but our parents didn't put us in a monkey suit and send us to TV studios. We just wrote funny plays and stories...
I spent those same years smoking part, masturbating like a chimp, and hating you ambitious achievers.
@BadUncle: and that's why you still hate ambitious achievers, especially the young Jonathan Kohn. Just think... he's only fourteen. The California Duncan Hunters are a fine example of adult conservativism... this young man has what it takes.
First off, let me say that I completely agree with most of this post. However, there is a strong implied criticism of homeschooling that I find offensive. I was unschooled (and thought I definitely saw my share of wacky bible thumpers), along with my brother, and we both have grown up to be freethinkers, openminded and liberal. I graduated in the top 5% of my class and have had wonderful social relationships with all sorts of people.
There is NOTHING about institutionalized education that is inherently superior to personalized attention from those who love you the most.
Part of me still wishes that I'd listened to my better demons and gone ahead with the child preacher career that was waiting for me, just so I could be a sanctimonious little hypocrite who got lots of tail and free drugs. Don't think those same things aren't being offered to this little shit either; someone is or is planning on diddling this kid, mark my words.
Keep him away from that sweaty pillhead Rush, that's for sure.
I think it's weird and sad and also possibly a sitcom how Bill Bennett claims he is good friends with this kid. Cue montage of Jonathan Krohn giggling, propped up on a couple of phone books, sitting next to Bennett in the high rollers room at the Bellagio; Bennett and Krohn riding their fishing gear-laden mountain bikes through a sun-dappled Atlanta suburb; and Bennett and Krohn camped out in a tent in the Krohn's backyard as Mrs. Krohn heads out the backdoor with a tray of milk, cookies, and Johnnie Walker black.
I dunno, to me it's worse because he's completely defenseless in the media world. As Gawker well knows, opinion markets are - at their salty, dim, writhing, chum-stained core - shark tanks. Watching someone with a genuine sense of wonder who obviously is desperately seeking some kind of approval get dropped into it with only his age to protect him is saddening. He's the physical embodiment of idealism, I guess, and his youthful forcefield has a definitive expiration date. When it does, hahahaha. He'll be eviscerated, and all that precocious genius won't matter because his arguments suck.
@ADismalScience: yeah i mean i am not criticizing the kid i'm explaining why he's CREEPY, to me and others, and that's not his fault. i mean christ as i said i was a Little Shit myself, but no one thrust me on the stage at CPAC! (or the liberal equivalent, which as we all know is a gay pride parade)
There's one thing that's might stop Lil' Jonathan's Crazy Train: Puberty. I'm thinking he may be one of the lucky ones who will eventually grow out of such puerile thinking and nauseating views.
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despite detected disagreement?
Teens are not easily compelled by adults, and you know that.
Better that Jonhan Krohn is coached in conservative politics.
Liberals produced the trash talking little boys on this post.
They probably started smoking pot as young people and gotstuck there, mentally and psycological. No, just psyco. Not logical
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Come to think of it, isn't all this Reagan, Rand, Rush and R. Cheney star fucking about having the big, bad, complicated world explained to you in terms an early adolescent can understand? It's always seemed that way to me.
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Can't we all just get along, or do Democrats have to lay down the law to some 14 year old boy because his beliefs aren't the same as theirs?
Hypocrites.
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I spent those same years smoking part, masturbating like a chimp, and hating you ambitious achievers.
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There is NOTHING about institutionalized education that is inherently superior to personalized attention from those who love you the most.
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Keep him away from that sweaty pillhead Rush, that's for sure.
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Where's Alec Baldwin??
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Wonder if he'll have a debate with Damon Weaver.
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Oh, I wasn't criticizing you or the post - was being wistful.
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