{"id":11743,"date":"2018-04-18T15:09:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T20:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=11743"},"modified":"2018-05-18T02:04:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T07:04:43","slug":"do-you-have-any-republican-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/do-you-have-any-republican-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Do you have any Republican friends?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VKYfarmt-N4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Will Witt from PragerU recently went to New York and asked a bunch of random people this question. The result was this video, and holy heck. I&#8217;m not even a Republican, and I&#8217;m infuriated.<\/p>\n<p>We have a word for people who don&#8217;t tolerate anyone who disagrees with them. It&#8217;s <b>INTOLERANT.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We have a word for people who only make friends with people who think and believe exactly the way that they do. It&#8217;s <b>CLOSED-MINDED.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We have a word for people who are so convinced that they&#8217;re morally superior to everyone else that they won&#8217;t even consider an opposing point of view. It&#8217;s <b>BIGOTED.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is why Trump is your president, you intolerant, closed-minded bigots. After eight years of putting up with your side&#8217;s hypocrisy, the rest of us got so sick of it that we voted for the one guy who tells it like he sees it.<\/p>\n<p>Trump may be an asshole, but at least he isn&#8217;t a hypocrite about it. You, on the other hand\u2026<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, there&#8217;s no way to tell how many of the people Will Witt interviewed were as asinine as the people in the video. All we&#8217;ve got are a bunch of anecdotes, and the plural of anecdote is not data.<\/p>\n<p>But still. Holy heck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Witt from PragerU recently went to New York and asked a bunch of random people this question. The result was this video, and holy heck. I&#8217;m not even a Republican, and I&#8217;m infuriated. We have a word for people who don&#8217;t tolerate anyone who disagrees with them. It&#8217;s INTOLERANT. We have a word for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/do-you-have-any-republican-friends\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Do you have any Republican friends?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[414],"class_list":["post-11743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-33p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11792,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11743\/revisions\/11792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}