Progressive journalist Ana Kasparian unleashes on liberal intolerance that drove her away from Dems: Its disgusting
“The Young Turks” co-host Ana Kasparian explained what drove her to ditch the Democratic Party while on Jillian Michaels’ “Keeping It Real” podcast on Monday.The progressive media host described feeling “politically homeless” over the past few years, as she started seeing an intolerance to debate and the free exchange of ideas as well as an embrace of soft-on-crime policies by the left that she believed were detrimental to society.She ripped efforts to “demonize and even dehumanize the other side” while admitting she used to be a person who believed you could not be friends with conservatives or someone who supported former President Trump.Both women said they identified with disaffected Democrats who now feel unwelcome in their former party.Kasparian said a turning point for her was when she was scolded by liberals after confessing she was fearful to leave her house after being sexually assaulted by a homeless man while walking her dog in Los Angeles in 2022.“Before I knew it, I started getting these messages, and it’s really, really harsh stuff, about how, ‘You are painting a picture of the homeless community.
How could you be like this? These are your unhoused neighbors and they need help,'” she said of the negative messages she received.“A few people accused me of being racist, even though I had never disclosed the race of the individuals who did this to me.And in fact, they were white,” Kasparian continued. “That woke me up,” Kasparian said.
“Some of the people that I’ve associated myself with because I thought they were the good people….They definitely have stereotypes in their head and are totally blind to the fact that they have those stereotypes and go around accusing others of being bad actors when they themselves need to do the work.”Kasparian said she also disagreed with the “defeatist mentality” shown towards minorities.“At some point last year, the other thing that really hit me was the difference...