What apparently hasn't changed is that he's as smart as a whip for his age, capable of learning in great leaps and bounds and with self-reflection, way ahead of the usual adolescent schedule:

“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.”

Thanks for the link!

The kid seems to have the best sort of smarts, he is curiously intelligent. He is not satisfied with simply believing, he wants to understand what he believes.

I understood it enough to talk about it but not really enough to have a conversation about it.”

 He came to know enough about himself to realize the truth of that quote and then went on learning more with, apparently, that not so common facet of intelligence that lets new information change strongly held beliefs.  I admire him.

At roughly age 12, Noam Chomsky apparently wrote a piece for his school paper lamenting the rise of fascism on the occasion of the fall of Barcelona to Franco.  Am watching the documentary "Manufacturing Consent" and thought of this thread on Krohn as that information was presented...