25 Oct J.D. Vance is a Leader for the Times
Posted at 18:00h
in A C W T Statements
“We’ve got to be better at communicating and talking to one another. The biggest thing I worry about and we talk threats to democracy — that’s a term that you hear a lot — to me, the biggest threat to democracy is the rising tide of censorship.
The idea that we should be trying to silence our fellow Americans rather than persuade them and talk to them.
That’s always going to — that’s always going to lead to people being pissed because they don’t like being told what to think or what to say.
They like to talk to one another and that one thing that I’ll always commit to.
As your vice president for the next four years, I’ll always try to talk to people. We’ll go out there and do events with people who disagree with us. We’ll answer questions from people who don’t always see eye to eye, but I think if we set the tone from the top, the leadership of this country is all about communicating with one another, I think that’s how we start to heal the divide, but we all have a role in it.
And one final point I’ll say about this. You know, don’t get too personal all the time, but you know, one of the things I’ve seen, especially from, you know, some of my wife’s friends and some of my friends is they disagree with us on politics sometimes they’ll get very personal about it.
And, if you’re discarding a lifelong friendship because somebody votes for the other team, then you’ve made a terrible, terrible mistake and you should do something different.
Like, don’t — don’t cast aside — like, most of my family obviously is going to vote for, you know, Donald Trump and JD Vance and if they’re not, actually, I need to talk to them.
But — but I’ve got friends who like me personally — acquaintances who aren’t necessarily going to vote for me. That doesn’t make them bad people.
And you can’t — this is my important advice, whether you vote for me, whether you vote for — for Donald Trump, whether you vote for Kamala Harris, don’t cast aside family members and lifelong friendships. Politics is not worth it. And I think, if we follow this principle, we heal the divide in this country.”