"Come Nov. 9, 2016 we cannot be enemies of each other. We need leaders inviting us to reflect on the changing realities of our global economy, our culture, our faith in ways that would allow us to face difficult realities and explore new options for how to live together as a nation and as a global community."
Of course you are 100% correct. But what you say about political 'enemies' needs to be said about religious 'enemies'. Maybe the tradition of 'enemy religions' throughout all of history speaks directly to inimical politics. Nasty politics play the game of nasty religion. What we are doing in our religious/ political nastiness is being grossly insensitive to what authentic religion/ politics compel us in conscience.
Surely there is some radically important common understanding that should be informing religion/ politics - like - we all belong to nature in the same religious/ political way, and it's idiotic to persist in religious/ political mindlessness. CHURCHES UNITED is a start.