Vance: Politics is not worth it if you cast aside family members & lifelong friendship, heal divide

JD Vance: “If you discard a lifelong friendship because somebody votes for the other team, you’ve made a terrible mistake… Don’t cast aside family members and lifelong friendships. Politics is not worth it. If we follow that principle, we’ll heal the divide in this country.”

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Vance: Politics is not worth it if you cast aside family members & lifelong friendship, we’ll heal divide

Key Points

JD Vance: “If you discard a lifelong friendship because somebody votes for the other team, you’ve made a terrible mistake

• Don’t cast aside family members and lifelong friendships
• If we follow that principle, we’ll heal the divide in this country

Transcript Highlights

The following is transcribed from the video audio:

• 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 lead to people being pissed off because they don’t like to be told what to think or what to say
• And that’s 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 we’ll 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 at 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
• And one final point I’ll say about this, and don’t get too personal all the time
• But one of the things I’ve seen, especially from some of my wife’s friends and some of my friends, is that they disagree with us on politics sometimes

Full transcript: 364 words transcribed via Whisper AI.