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We’ll Never Reach People Like Johnny Depp and His Ilk—But Here’s Who We Can Reach

How can you reach across the aisle to people like Johnny Depp, who recently went on mic to suggestively discuss assassinating the president of the United States. You can’t.

“Anybody who is calling for the assassination of the president is so far past reason that we’re never going to get to them . . . you’re never going to talk to them,” Glenn said Friday on radio.

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Using a football analogy (surprise!), Glenn described the 80 percent of the country we should be trying to reach. They’re the ones on both sides of the aisle that don’t want chaos in the streets, buildings burning down and people being assassinated on baseball fields.

“If you’re looking at a football field, that 10-yard line that all the revolutionaries are on . . . there’s 10 percent of those people that are beyond reason with their anger — ten percent on the right; ten percent on the left. Assuming that number is right, that means that there are 80 yards . . . 80 percent of the country that doesn’t want to feel that way,” Glenn said.

So how do we reach that 80 percent?

“We are currently talking to people that I guess you could kind of put into the behavioral scientist category, and I’ve been reading and reading and reading and studying and working with people trying to figure out how do we talk to the 80 percent,” Glenn shared.

What it boils down to is speaking the same language.

“We have different languages, the left and the right. And it is proven . . . it goes so deep now that when we go to a grocery store, scientists can look at your grocery store record and pretty much tell who you voted for by what products you buy. We are so different. We are as different as somebody who lives in Mexico City and grew up with that lifestyle and somebody who grew up in Chicago,” Glenn said.

Will we ever agree on all policy issues? Of course not. But if we learn to speak the language of the left on their playing field, we can reach common ground and learn to live as friendly neighbors again.

“Can we find and convince — let’s just say 50 percent of the country — that saying assassination of the president is not a good thing, and we shouldn’t feel that and we should stand together?” Glenn asked.

Enjoy the complimentary clip or read the transcript for details.

This article was originally published on GlennBeck.com.


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