Biden: "I used to think you could defeat bigotry, but it only hides"

[Recursion]

Link to tweet

Yup. This is the guy I'm voting for, with absolutely zero regrets.

[madaboutharry]

1. Joe Biden understands suffering.

He lives with suffering in his heart. He can feel the suffering of others.

Trump, in contrast, is the cause of suffering.

[2naSalit]

3. [T]he cause of suffering...

with some sick satisfaction for doing so.

[murielm99]

2. In normal times, bigotry lives under rocks.

It does not show its slimy self to the majority of us unless someone turns over the rocks. Trump has turned all of those rocks over.

[BlueMTexpat]

4. Absolutely correct.

Not only has he turned the rocks over, he is encouraging people to throw them.

He is the First Terrorist!

[Hortensis]

5. +1000. But it's also lessened by good leadership and good times.

What we're seeing is what happens when bad leaders fan and harness bigotry to create power. For 40 years RW leaders have influenced people to become the worst versions of themselves. And they've refined many sophisticated techniques.

The Republicans' keeping wages suppressed didn't just satisfy RW ideology and big donors, it also had the happy effect of creating insecurity that caused wager earners in general to be more conservative, less kind and generous, more resentful, more hostile and in need of targets.

[WePurrsevere]

8. Well said, especially this part. ..

"creating insecurity that caused wager earners in general to be more conservative, less kind and generous, more resentful, more angry, more hostile and in need of targets."

[Hortensis]

9. Interesting that Democrats and left-leaning indies

overwhelmingly supported a man with a conspicuous reputation for niceness and decency before he even announced. Sure, it was part of huge name recognition, but this OP caused me to wonder if it could also be something like people needing potassium taking a hankering for spinach.

[WePurrsevere]

11. I think so. Let's hope a huge majority of voters...

crave some 'niceness and decency', not to mention competency, come Nov and Democrats win in landslides across the country. This meaness, ignorance, mal-information, pandering to bigots and encouraging violence against fellow Americans by Trump, his enablers and cult followers must be stopped.

[usaf-vet]

6. I saw the bigotry first hand in the mid 1960s when I was stationed in the south 1965-1969.

When I was discharged in 1969 and happily left the bigotry behind and headed north to home. I thought that was all behind me. In the subsequent years, I felt bigotry still existed but we were slowly changing things.

When President Obama was elected I thought this was further evidence that things were changing. It didn't take long for the world to see that the hatred was still there and back in the open.

With Trump in the WH, we see it being used as a political weapon to maintain his power.

Trump is an evil hateful excuse for a human being. We need to vote him out in November 2020 and hopefully, hold him and his band of grifters legally responsible for their illegal activities while in office.

[StarfishSaver]

14. Bigotry isn't gone and it isn't limited to the south

[yardwork]

19. That's what I understood this poster to say.

[WePurrsevere]

7. Well said Joe! Rec'd and retweeted. nt

[Joinfortmill]

10. Good to hear the phucking truth for a change.

[bearsfootball516]

12. He's absolutely correct, unfortunetly.

If Biden wins in November, all the racists MAGATs don't just disappear. Most of them will go back into hiding and they just won't be visible or vocal anymore.

[dixiechiken1]

13. You're right...

They won't disappear. And we won't change their hearts or their minds. But if the best we can hope for is that they'll crawl back under their rocks and STFU, I'll take it.

[StarfishSaver]

16. They won't disappear, but they'll no longer have the most powerful person on earth

Spreading their message, advancing cause, and giving them safe haven.

[uponit7771]

18. +1, if Red Don is still around they'll be even louder

[marble falls]

15. No regrets, no apologies, no asterisks , no reservations. We need a real President.