Progressive journalist unleashes on liberal intolerance that drove her away from Democratic Party
'That woke me up,' Ana Kasparian said about being lectured by liberals after getting sexually assaulted in 2022

By Kristine Parks | Fox News
Published October 9, 2024 9:00pm EDT

"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 between my upbringing and what the Democratic Party espouses," Kasparian said.

She described being raised by "very tough" parents who taught her to work hard to be self-sufficient and create her own opportunities. While she acknowledged there are obstacles today that some younger people are facing that older generations may not have had to face, she still sees America as a land of opportunity, which she said goes against messaging from the Democratic Party.

"However, we all get to wake up in the morning and make choices for ourselves. And when I hear the Democratic Party constantly disempower people of color, because that's what they're doing," she said.

"They keep using this messaging that infantilizes them and makes them seem as though, you know, if it weren't for us White saviors, messing around with these laws and policies, they would never be able to survive. And I find that so gross," she continued.

Kasparian gave examples of how a Los Angeles school district scrapped its honor student program because there wasn't enough Hispanic students enrolled in the program.

"That p---d me off," Kasparian said. "It's doing away with an opportunity rather than seeing what the flaws are in our education system and then rising to the occasion to help these students, where we do see the disparity, to get to where we want them to be. That's the right way to approach it. But there's just this weird defeatist mentality. And I'm honestly also very sick of White people going around being offended on behalf of marginalized people."

"They're just virtue signaling. It's disgusting," Michaels agreed.

"We should celebrate people who want to better themselves and better their lives," Kasparian said later in a discussion about the "fat-acceptance" movement on the far-left.

"Instead, there's this effort to basically tell people, ‘you're fine the way you are, you don't need to change a thing,' even if that thing is slowly killing you. It doesn't make any sense," she continued.

The pair also said they've seen their home state of California become "crazy" over time from when they were growing up.

Michaels, who left California in 2021, has previously shared how the deep blue state's soft-on crime policies drove her and her family to leave and move to Miami.

"Nothing was crazy like this right?" Michaels told Kasparian. "Homelessness, crime, advocating for medicalization of children, advocating for late-term abortion?"

Gov. Gavin Newsom is leading the "madness" in the state, Michaels said. "The concern is that it goes from California to a federal problem."

"Unfortunately, some of the failed policies we've started here have been exported to other states," Kasparian agreed.

And now they will attack her with the same venom they have for conservatives, thereby reinforcing her commentary for other “progressives” riding the fence… at least the ones not too far gone to help. It’s funny; I don’t see any actual conservatives doing the same in the other direction.

Thanks for posting this. I think this is the way most Dem voters get turned off these days. At least part of the divide for me is this feeling that the left can't think or comprehend logic anymore. That a turn among the propagandists themselves could happen and that they would go public with it is kind of shocking to me.

It also gives me a bit greater hope for humanity and that is saying something.

Thanks Q!

There’s a YouTube channel called #walk away. I think. Ran by The walk away project. Started by this gay, former Liberal Democrat who saw the political light and its people’s testimony of how they may have been a classical liberal, but being a full blown socialist is a bridge too far. Regular folks ans well ans some celebs Everything from the cancel culture to shitting on cops and military to transing of kids.

Some celebs I’ve seen lately include Susan Olsen ( cindy Brady) claims CBS wanted her to have a struggle session and confess her sins publicly before a Brady bunch reboot series could proceed on top of some the obvious wokeness for wokeness sake things that were going to be in the new series like some of Brady spouses are minorities and some of their kids are trans etc. she refused.

The other was Cherie Currie of 70’s girl band the Runaways. Was a super Liberal Democrat and She’s full MAGA now. I saw Scott baio on Twitter and he had posted something after Helene and Cherie Currie posted oh stay safe Scott and your wife and I said interesting and clicked on HER Twitter page and read all recent posts and then saw her video a few days later. Because, the algorithm. Checking IMDB they had done a terrible movie in the 80’s. Must still be friends.

Anyway always nice to see someone mugged by reality and get red pilled. Even if not registered republican, extreme chance they vote for DJT and if the don’t vote DJT then at least not voting for kackles.

That shows there's still hope for those who think. Good for her. Unfortunately, it took being being sexually assaulted for her to wake up.

When she is out actively promoting conservative causes and the election of Donald Trump as the 47th POTUS, then I'll believe she's seen the light.

Until then, I suspect she just got tired of Cenk Uygur's stupidity.

No thanks. Don't like her. Don't trust her. Don't want her. Anyone associated with the Young Turks is leftist trash- extreme leftist trash.

Watch some of her old videos.

Here. Election 2016:



What happened between then and now? Don't know. Don't care. Get the FUCK away from our movement.

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unhoused neighbors

What the f**k!

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There’s a YouTube channel called #walk away. I think. Ran by The walk away project. Started by this gay, former Liberal Democrat who saw the political light and its people’s testimony of how they may have been a classical liberal, but being a full blown socialist is a bridge too far.

Brandon Straka
The process of waking up. Another Red Pill moment.

I think Brandon Straka has done more than perhaps any individual ex-Democrat to bring young people over to our side. He’s exceptionally articulate and convincing. Or maybe I need to give up my man card.

More like a beginning to see the light.

Dave Rubin seems to have recovered from the young turks, hopefully she will too.

^^^ Did not know that about Rubin being an ex-progressive. Yeah, there's always hope that more and more of them seeing the light.

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^^^ Did not know that about Rubin being an ex-progressive. Yeah, there's always hope that more and more of them seeing the light.

I'll take all the little (and big) wins.