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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYT: Biden Asked Republicans to Give Him a Chance. They're Not Interested.
We pray for a peaceful transition, he told his congregation of 50 people. The carefully chosen words underscored the political reality in Mason, Texas a rural, conservative town of roughly 2,000 people after Joe Bidens victory over President Donald Trump.
Not everyone thought the election was over, and not everyone said they would respect the results.
My Democratic friends think Biden is going to heal everything and unify everyone, said Jeanie Smith, who attends the more conservative Spring Street Gospel Church in Mason, which is about 100 miles west of Austin. They are deceived.
Now you want healing, she added. Now you want to come together. You have not earned it.
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-asked-republicans-him-chance-162845294.html
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,111 posts)mitch96
(13,934 posts)So keep up with the hands across the isle rhetoric and do what has to be done to make this democracy work... YMMV
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Hermit-The-Prog
(33,509 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)To the best of their ability, the Republicans for whom she votes arent going to let us do ANYTHING to solve Americas most desperate and serious problems. Once again, they will prove that government doesnt work by INSURING that government doesnt work for the people.
Sadly, I doubt that she understands this dynamic.
-Laelth
BeyondGeography
(39,388 posts)and see what the people there think about a Democratic President who preaches unity.
Ill take stories that write themselves for $100, Alex.
ms liberty
(8,614 posts)catrose
(5,075 posts)What would we have to do to earn it (supposing we were interested)?
Agree with their worldview completely (including that we've injured them)?
CousinIT
(9,267 posts)It's the goddamned Republicans who have not earned it. Quite the contrary. They've done EVERYTHING to prevent and sabotage it!
LisaL
(44,974 posts)NT
GoCubsGo
(32,098 posts)We have to "earn" healing with this asshole? Fuck that shit. Let her stew in her own hatred until she rots. Who the hell does she think she is?
PatSeg
(47,678 posts)and expect Democrats to fix it. Newt Gingrich trained them well back in the nineties.
BusyBeingBest
(8,059 posts)Cha
(297,866 posts)Of course they're not interested but PE has to ask.. and then MOVE ON!
andym
(5,445 posts)THe Right-wing propagandists and Trump, in particular, have created a huge problem.