I'm a liberal and I went to a trump
rally to see if there was Common Ground
going in I was expecting aggression but
I actually experienced a lot of kindness
do you want to be friends of course L
everybody sure I'm going to get a hug
yeah yes be friends sure how do you feel
about being named Brandon all of a
sudden I became really popular I don't
think America is that divided reality is
I would say the majority of average
American we probably disagree on maybe
four or five
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topics well Sam says as a liberal he
started going to Trump rallies as a
school experiment to if he could make
any friends now he says it resulted in
him discovering people are not all bad
Sam thanks for being here thank you for
inviting me well I think it's a a little
skewed because I think you're uncommonly
friendly and approachable
so no well really it's a nice guy so uh
what did you find out when you got there
yeah I mean we did the first experiment
actually at UCLA um uh Jubilee which is
coming really focus on this empathy and
the show is called 100 new friends and
so trying to make like hundred new
friends in these different environments
but I felt like going to UCLA was doing
it on easy mode I'm like what is the
most hostile environment I could think
of um and for me as like a liberal I was
thinking okay that has to be a trump
rally right I'm like seeing all this uh
stuff online about how like people like
throwing stuff and putting things on
fire stuff like that and almost
instantly upon arriving that was not the
case everyone we talked to uh extended
us a ton of kindness uh it would start
with do you want to be friends like just
kind of based on human connection um and
then I would say that I was liberal and
they would be like why are you here um
but after that it was like you know just
connecting on why they were here what
they believed um and a lot of it came
down to just like wanting to feel safe
but even more than that it actually just
came down to wanting to feel part of a
community so many people were there
we're just like I'm just trying to have
a good time here and these are people
that accept me the like Atomic unit of
community is dissolving in America right
now and I feel like Party politics is
where some people are finding that yeah
which is kind of scary because you don't
know who's in there now Ryan you're
Rick's chief of staff at Lincoln project
right I am you believe this is a fight
to literally save democracy I do I
really do you know Dr Phil I grew up in
the Bible Belt I was raised an
Evangelical and I left it as an adult
because I found so much judgment there
and I think that the things that we are
talking about here today are really
important I mean America's lost some
compassion we've gotten to where we pick
teams and we have forgotten that it is
what unites us not what divides us that
makes us a country I mean people have
different worldviews people have
different life experiences and we have
to accept that we have to accept that we
are not the same as every single person
around us we have different we have
different life experiences and so well
thank God for that thank God for that
that's what I mean really I don't want
everybody in my image I I want to meet
people that are different and have
different experiences and stuff right do
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