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CJ Pearson renounces conservatism. This is similar to Jonathan Krohn's case.

Pearson is the same young man that got some flack for being a (black) conservative while being patriotic by wearing the stars & stripes top hat. That was back in 2013. Two years have almost eclipsed and things change; people change. Pearson no longer is a conservative for obvious reasons.

As he states from a youtube video -

"I was tired of being a champion of a party that turned a blind eye to racial discrimination," Pearson told CNN. "Tired of being a champion of any cause that denies equal rights to every American. Tired of being a champion of a party that doesn't care about the issues important to young people."

Now I will guess that the racial discrimination may have something to do about Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. Add the Yale and Mizzou campus protests of insensitive remarks fueled by racism. Then he brings up "equal rights." Same-sex "marriage", perhaps? In years past he said he was socially liberal and fiscally conservative, so his was he expressed to CNN wasn't anything new. Now the last part is rather chilling (though not really, once you think about it) in the sense that this is how "young people" think. They all think alike.

What this also shows is how the MSM projects their own skewed understanding of the conservative sect by how they frame the headliner. In an ironic fashion, TalkingPointsMemo is tying to make this into a very big deal. It's not. A 13 year old thinks many things that can differ from when he was two years younger, or this in case, two years older (check Pearson's birth date, though).

Pearson's renouncement of conservatism is no surprise since he appeals to the usual falsities of why conservatism is a bad thing, and why anyone who cares what he cares about would not be a conservative. He's young. He may give conservatism another look, though he never showed any true understanding of what it is besides showing sartorial patriotism. He may forever be lost and make a comfortable home in The Left.

What Pearson expressed in his video is exactly what The Left wants to happen. They want people to get mad that the government and conservatism aren't best buddies. That conservatism, true conservatism, practices social retrains. They want young people, though bright in some way are naive beyond the doubt, to think "Hey, the GOP are mean people. They don't care what I care about (they do, they just go about relieving society's warts in different ways). To hell with conservatism!" Then again a more astute political thinker would note that the GOP and conservatism aren't necessarily one in the same thing.

CJ Pearson is the perfect recruit for The Left. He his young - puberty is on the horizon. He is naive. He has some anger within him. Perfect.

Since he has signed on the dotted and is "on their team," now he'll be educated well throughout his high school, college and adult years in all things Leftism. It would be interesting to see if Pearson becomes a public figure in politics and to see his face get owned on "the issue important to young people" when faced with a competent conservative.

Does Krohn's and Pearson's renouncement of conservatism speak about conservatism? No, because the age they favored liberalism tells us nothing than a kid latching onto things he didn't understand. They never said how conservatism does not address the issues they care about; they just said that conservatism doesn't care. In fact, the reasons why both these young men have moved to the left, as they admitted to the public, have turned out to be reasons that are the talking points used by many on The Left that can easily be refuted (I'll probably write a rebuttal to Pearson's video). In Krohn's case he read philosophy. That's rather typical for a naive 17 year old. College does that to the easily swayed and the easily impressed.

I wonder how Krohn will fair against Ben Shapiro. Eh, that's not a fair match. Shapiro's support for conservatism is highly unusual because, from my own knowledge, wasn't ever a liberal (at best he hold a few libertarian stances on social issues) and was raised in the city of LA, though he was raised by parents who are the only Republicans within his immediate family.  Shapiro, entering college at the age of 16, was also usually aware of the leftism that pervaded his classes.

When a young kid projects his enthusiasm for conservatism before he hits puberty, actual conservatives should think it's cute. It sort of is. But don't bank on his enthusiasm to lead up to a fine understanding of what the Found Fathers and what leading conservative minds think. A teenager moving to the left, as I previously said, is to be expected. Teenagers tend to be socially liberal and social conservatism is lost on them, but not because it's a silly or absurd stance, it's because "young people" don't truly understand what social conservatism is and why such stances are held. Debt isn't a comforting thing, so being fiscally conservative speaks to the "young people." The real interesting question is where should expenses be focused, why and how much should be spent. Another thing to remember is how money should be raised. Through Taxes? Should we subsidize? It's a complex issue.

So good-bye, Pearson. The Left's plan is working perfectly.