Yep! I’m 15 in that picture!
I’ve been open about growing up conservative and my journey breaking free of conservative propaganda in high school and I still am.
Feel free to ask me anything about this! I’ll try my best to answer.
I’ve been open about growing up conservative and my journey breaking free of conservative propaganda in high school and I still am.
Feel free to ask me anything about this! I’ll try my best to answer.
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It's wild people think you can't change over time.
I was kinda contrarian GOP at 13 (my school was quite neoliberal), and for me at that age it was Siddartha. No joke
I personally came out of that period as an agnostic and developed a different basis for my beliefs, but everyone's journey is different.
Many votes I regret in hindsight.
Like most Schumer Dems really fuckin hate Palestinians for daring to exist.
🙄
Keep them dumb. Keep them numb.
Meanwhile, in the last decade I feel like I've gone from "you look good for your age" to "omg, what happened, are you ok?" 💀
this might've already been asked, but do you plan to protect trans people and their rights? how would you do that?
thanks kat :)
i was just an unsocial pacifist who dreamed that everyone was like me and would just leave each other alone in a libertarian society
It’s pretty normal.
Too little too late kat!!
Go on and disrespect Kamala Harris again.
You don’t get to use our party to appease your conservative background as penance!
No ma’am.
We grow up, we learn about the world and a lot of us change.
Glad to see someone else broke free!
There is a reason it takes time to grow up.
Curse that mainstream media by burying this fact by sharing it freely and prominently
Still, sick burn, guy, what a detective
Now my Mom & Dad are all fiercely Pro-Choice and consider abortion healthcare.
People change.
From child to adult teen to adult, and even as adults.
This Kat attack is whack, jack.
I even turned down the opportunity to see them live more than once before Kurt died.
15 is hard
2-what prompted you to change parties?
Nothing to be ashamed of, wear it as a stripe of experience on your belt. Stay strong. You're killin' it. ♥️
What flipped the switch for you?
Surely this must be disqualifying
Thank you for your candor, and I hope the strange peanut gallery you've accumulated isn't getting you down.
that's truly a record.
Politicians used to do this kind of thing back when they weren't so afraid of standing for anything.
https://www.katforillinois.com/issues/new-issue3
https://www.katforillinois.com/issues/new-issue3
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/16/kamala-harris-campaign-branding-00173064
Try again
So you're more supportive of active Republicans, then?
What first prompted you to examine your beliefs?
So who is running your campaign? I have some feedback.
People evolve.
It's fucking stupid. If people aren't allowed to update their values then persuasion doesn't matter, leaving only brute force. Good job, you're now a Republican.
Same online leftists: "we will never, ever, EVER let a working class voter forget that they are evil scum garbage for not having realized at age 9 that their conservative parents were ontologically evil"
At the same time, let's not forget that progressive voters have been burned many times before by politicians who campaigned on progressive causes, and then turned out to be DINOs.
But understanding WHY someone evolved from a past position is essential: what radicalized them, which sources are they getting their info from, who's educating them on the issues...
We shouldn't discuss that one, though, because... preexisting conditions...and ...parents' insurance until age 26...
Meanwhile, BILLIONS in cash to insurance companies to not provide healthcare.....
But there's a difference between seeking perfection, and vetting a candidate. And neither of these are consistent with the usual Democrat battle cry of "vote blue no matter who," which enabled the Fettermans and Sinemas of the world.
That said, in my mind, Kat's work as a journalist and activist speaks for itself.
Online leftists use the distinction to brand themselves apart from the DNC because frankly they have nothing in common outside of social issues.
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Like no, we lived in the echo chamber, we spoke and thought like you until we met people who weren't like us, and we cared about their needs???
My dad always talked about how amazing capitalism and the free market was, then as I grew up I noticed all the intentional suffering this system creates
Most leftists didn’t grow up in left wing households.
Well done for breaking free and forging your own intellectual path. Good luck
https://Culdesac.com
For me it was because I deconverted from evangelical Christianity to Orthodox Christianity which was less politically with conservatives then, and I could separate my politics from my belief in god
Didn't hurt that all that was crystal clear because they othered me since I was a weirdo. 🤷♂️
What a kid has on their laptop doesn’t mean shit about where they find themselves as an adult.
Besides which: the one real knock on Jan is that she's old.
Well, fine. But she's not nuts. Brother Don doesn't have that going for him.
(References to RBG heard and appreciated, of course. Point well taken. But still, Jan's in game-ready shape and of sound mind until proven otherwise.)