After discovering that there are couples out there that somehow manage to date despite opposite politics, “The Daily Show” correspondent Jessica Williams decided to play matchmaker on Thursday night.
Interviewing a group of committed Republicans in one room and Democrats in the other, Williams asked each the downside they could imagine from dating across party lines. Neither group seemed open to the prospect.
“The downside of dating a Republican is like, on a Friday night, if I wanna go see ‘Selma,’ and they just wanna stay home and watch YouTube videos of Ronald Reagan speeches,” one of the Democrats said. “I’m just not gonna be down with that.”
As for an ideal mate, both sides gave their criteria.
“My ideal mate should have 3 guns,” one of the Republicans said. “Doesn’t complain about the minimum wage.”
“He’d have like, more than one black friend, hopefully,” a Democrat said.
Williams capped off the segment by setting up two from the opposite party on a date, and appointed herself the dating coach.
Watch the the clip, courtesy of Comedy Central:
I am sad to say that a woman being republican is a deal breaker for me. I had a female acquaintance who left her husband to shack up with some guy…a republican. Ran into her a few years later and she was crying into her beer to me about what an a_hole he turned out to be. I was like, “Well, what did you expect? He isn’t an ass because he is republican…he is a republican because he is an ass”
I pretty much consider it sort of a warning sign these days.
I have a friend who’s a republican. It’s becoming extremely difficult to be friends with her. It has nothing to do with beliefs. Sincerely held beliefs are fine, differences in opinion are fine. What this ridiculous piece in The Daily Show completely misses is that to be a Republican today means to just accept and spout outright lies. Republicans don’t believe in climate change, don’t believe in evolution, and have general contempt for education and knowledge. In order to get along there have to be certain agreed upon facts. With republicans you have to argue that two plus two is four and not five. It’s exhausting!
Well, the NY Times poll out today says that 48% of Republicans not only accept climate change, but want something done about it. In fact, on a whole range of issues, elected Republicans are not only out of step with the public, they are out of step with half or more of their voters. So why do they keep getting elected? Why does a Republican not run to represent that broad swath of the party? A candidate who could capture 45-50% of the Republican vote, while the remainder was split between the multiple clown car occupants should have an easy road to the nomination, not to mention, a much better shot in the general. Yet, it never seems to happen.
Dating trolls. What a masochistic waste of time.
I know lots of Republicans who believe in climate change, think evolution is fact, want weed legal, think gay marriage is fine, want less war, etc. I think what you are referring to is the extremist idiots. Granted, there are LOTS of them, but to lump all Republicans into one “belief system” is part of the problem. We have issues we agree with many Republicans on. As a liberal I know a lot of extremist liberals who I don’t agree with on some issues. But with extremist conservatives I don’t agree with them on ANY issues.
To me we need to engage the other side when we agree on things. That’s how things get done.