Joe: To make progress, we have to stop treating our opponents as enemies. We are not enemies.

[soothsayer]

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Joe Biden
@JoeBiden
To make progress, we have to stop treating our opponents as enemies. We are not enemies.

[W_HAMILTON]

1. It's a nice sentiment, but they most certainly are our enemies.

And I don't know how you go about combatting a brainwashed horde of idiot zombies.

[kacekwl]

2. Sorry Joe, this one and the party he represents

is your enemy and all our enemy's. Don't fall for a fairy tale.

[standingtall]

3. Joe Biden's opponents will treat him as an enemy the moment he is sworn in

He can expect more of the disgusting allegations lobbed at his Son for the next four years from republicans. Hopefully he is not that naive.

[murdock744]

4. Exactly

For many of us we welcome a new era of bipartisan cooperation and a toning down of the abrasive rhetoric of the past 4 years.

[SlogginThroughIt]

24. I agree. We cannot continue to go one with this mentality.

It is physically and mentally exhausting. It takes a toll on the general quality of life.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. How about criminals?

Can we treat them as criminals? Especially if they fucking are.

[uriel1972]

6. No offence but anyone who wants to torture and murder

Me because of the way I was born is an enemy, sorry?

[dustyscamp]

7. Thanks to Newt and Limbaugh they will always treat us as enemies

[melman]

8. Hard disagree

[MarcA]

9. He needs to convince the Rs of that. n/t

[DSandra]

10. The Right Wing has a financial and power interest in being enemies

Right Wing news media makes a lot of money on being enemies. The NRA and arms industry makes a lot of money scaring Americans into buying guns using partisan warfare. Right wing politicians get their power through demonizing our side.

As long as these forces are able to brainwash Americans into being our enemies, they will unfortunately be our enemies.

Hooray for ultracapitalist America.

[mshasta]

11. they are very racist individuals full of hate

always going against the good of the American people

[clementine613]

12. I'm sorry, Mr. President-Elect, but, with all due respect...

... you're wrong. Rethugs are the enemy, and they need to be rooted out of power like the vermin they are.

[LizBeth]

13. Wanna bet? I saw the way the cops who have the power treated us vs them. Again, wanna bet?

[gratuitous]

14. Perhaps not

But I'm not ready to sit down and make nice with people* who actively and passionately want nothing but death for me and a lot of my friends.

*I realize that there are a great many Republicans and Republican voters who are not like this, but it's clearly not a deal-breaker for them to include these repugnant people in their party.

[maxsolomon]

15. It's exactly what the winner should say.

I don't have to say that. Biden does.

[Solly Mack]

16. ...

- I would never attempt to intimidate people trying to vote. Not with my words, or my body, or a weapon.

They do.

- I would never drive my car into a group of them while they were protesting - sometimes murdering them in the process. Usually injuring them.

They do.

- I would never assume I knew what was best for them and then force them to have an abortion.

But they do make such an assumption and will force me to give birth.

- I don't protest in favor of hate and oppression.

They do.

- I don't deny science and the public good. Bringing harm to themselves and others.

They do.

- I don't attempt to legislate theocracy into being.

They do.

- I don't seek to legalize discrimination - harming my fellow citizens.

They do.

- I would never seek to absolve their marriage or deny them marriage.

They do.

- I don't seek to make them second class citizens.

They do seek to make other people second class citizens.

- I don't shoot up pizza parlors because of some bullshit found on the internet.

They do.

- I don't seek to suppress the votes of Black Americans.

They do.

- I don't cheer and defend police brutality.

They do.

- I don't excuse the murder of black people by the police.

They do.

- I don't seek to destroy the democratic norms and principles that keep America free. That allows us to defend liberty. That allows us to fight for justice.

They do.



These things go far beyond mere differences of opinions. The animosity and the hate it takes to behave as - They do - doesn't say friend to me. It doesn't say fellow citizen. It doesn't speak to simple disagreement. It does say, loud and clear, that they do wish me harm.

But that's just my opinion.

[nancy1942]

25. Well done.

All true.
Not my friends.

[haele]

17. True, they are not my enemies, as I claim no enemies.

But they, in their sullen resentment and fear claim I am their enemy. Which is sad, but I can't let their personal sorryness mess with my life.
I see where he's coming from, but their actions will dictate my response. I'm willing to hold out my hand if they're willing to put down their hate.

Haele

[soothsayer]

19. Very reasonable

[Wounded Bear]

18. Well, sounds nice and all, but they declared war on us...

[PTWB]

20. The voters aren't our enemies but the Republicans they elect are.

We have to figure out how to make that distinction and show them that the same Republicans they’re voting for are actually their enemies, too.

[nancy1942]

21. I beg to differ.

Yes, they ARE enemies. They detest us just as much as we detest them. Time will not heal the wounds...anymore than The Civil War did.
I wish I were wrong.

[murdock744]

22. President Biden

President Biden has found a way to put the animosity toward the GOP and Republicans behind him despite all they have put him and his family through, perhaps we should follow his lead and do the same?

[Kali]

27. hmmmm

be nice to the losers from a noob. sure thing.

[JCMach1]

23. They are not my enemies, but will I destroy fascists... YES

[Azathoth]

26. Oh Christ stop it Joe

This is the same ego trap Obama fell into. You will NOT make friends with the GOP.

Trump just spent the last four years saying the most horrific things about you, and he is losing by a hair.

[Bettie]

28. He is wrong

they are our enemies.