Essay by Eric Worrall
“… Now people will say … I don’t care about the science … cause they’re just all liberals …”
Obama concerned that Americans ‘almost occupy different realities’
BY LAUREN SFORZA – 05/16/23 2:45 PM ET
Former President Obama said in a new interview that what most worries him is that Americans are occupying “different realities.”
“The thing that I’m most worried about is the degree to which we now have a divided conversation, in part because we have a divided media, a splintered media,” Obama told “CBS Mornings” host Nate Burleson.
“Today what I’m most concerned about is the fact that, because of the splintering of the media we almost occupy different realities, right? If something happens that, you know, in the past everybody could say, ‘All right, we may disagree on how to solve it, but at least we all agree that, yeah, that’s an issue,’” he said.
“Now people will say, ‘Well, that didn’t happen,’ or, ‘I don’t believe that,’ or, ‘I don’t care about the science,’ or, ‘I’m not concerned about these experts, you know, ’cause they’re just all liberals’ or, you know, ‘That’s just conservative propaganda,’” he continued.
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Read more: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4006754-obama-concerned-that-americans-almost-occupy-different-realities/
The one question Obama doesn’t ask is why the conversation fractured. If Obama wants to understand who caused the problem, perhaps he should try looking in the mirror.
The answer to why is obvious – noble cause corruption. Mainstream media abandoned their original mission of objectively reporting the news, and embraced an alternative mission of trying to re-shape society.
Consider the furore over Trump’s CNN town hall. After Trump’s outstanding CNN performance, critics erupted in anger that CNN had given President Trump a platform.
But millions of people want to hear what Trump has to say.
Why do many mainstream media figures believe CNN should have denied President Trump a platform, when so many of their potential audience wanted to see Trump speak? Were mainstream media objections based on their mission to uphold objective, unbiased reporting? Or were they angry that CNN had deviated from a liberal mission to re-shape society, by silencing voices which dispute the liberal narrative?
When Obama talks about healing the fracture, does he mean giving airtime to other points of view? Or is his idea of healing the fractured national voice an intention to silence those voices he doesn’t like?
Too many people in politics and mainstream media seem to believe it is their mission to protect the public from dangerous ideas and “misinformation”, to be the arbiters of truth, to decide which voices people should hear.
Did people like Obama really expect others would just sit still and take the abuse?
Whether it’s suppressing climate skeptics, refusing to debate skeptics, or deplatforming politicians like Trump, mainstream media and the establishment’s intolerable attempts to shape the conversation through heavy handed censorship are in my opinion the cause of the fracture.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals. – CS Lewis
Like all closed-minded people, Barrack Obama doesn’t want to hear anything other than his point of view. It’s evidence of a self-centered, narcissistic mindset.
If you don’t agree with Obama’s opinion, Obama thinks there is something wrong with you. A common character flaw of radical leftists.
Obama wouldn’t respond to campaign questions from Fox News, therefore the Fox reporter had George Stephanopoulis ask the question on his behalf. And Obama is wondering about different realities. YEESH
BTW why would Climate Alarmist Barrack & Michelle buy an ocean side mansion several feet above sea level if ocean levels are rising?
Obama, just another bandwagon voice advocating “one reality” bounded by censorship and disgusting endemic mind control propaganda. A soft form of might makes right on the fluid fascist bandwagon.
There is no “almost” about it, we don’t occupy the same reality. And it’s not just Americans – it’s only more visible here.
No, it’s not just Americans. It’s everyone in the Western Democracies who have radical leftists in positions of power.
The leftists live in one false reality and the rest of us live in the real world.
Barry about those who haven’t swallowed the Green Kool-Aid: ‘I don’t care about the science,’
Actually, many DO care about science.
They just don’t care for politicized science masquerading as actual science.
(Mann was wrong. Is he one of Barry’s “experts”? Did Barry ever take a biology class?)
That malicious twerp promised to “transform” America, he DID transform America, and now he’s agitated because media are “splintered” and he wonders why “the conversation is fractured”?
Did he really expect all 330 million people to fall into lockstep behind him?
I think Obama was trying to set up a situation where it doesn’t matter what 330 million people think and they will just do what they are told because they have no other option. Obama weaponized the Executive Branch of government to force, through various means, his political outlook on everyone else.
And this Big Push appears to be continuing with Joe Biden who is following the Obama outline, and turning the authoritarianism up to 11.
It blows my mind that so many on the left simply cannot understand (or refuse to consider) that anyone might not take what they say as gospel. It is an amazing lack of awareness…. Like a chronic liar wondering why no one believes him, or a thief who puzzles at why people lock up their belongings when he is around.
Barri has a habit of saying the quiet part out loud, and leftist media toddle along with it.
Somebody ought to ask Barri why he remained silent while Trump was attacked for being in collusion with Russia, when Barri knew good and well that this was not true, and was a hoax dreamed up by Hillary Clinton.
The only conclusion you can draw is that Barri was fine with Trump and the nation suffering over a false attack by Barri’s Executive Branch.
Imo, when Hillary ginned up this fraud, Obama and Biden were eager to get on board and use the power of the federal government to push this false narrative as a means to destroy their mutual political opposition.
I think Obama and Biden are hip-deep in this attack on the U.S. Constitution.
Of course, there’s no evidence of that yet, but Biden doesn’t seem to be able to hide the evidence of his personal corruption very well, so maybe he didn’t hide his traitorous actions very well, either. Time will tell.
The Republican congress has a lot of investigating to do to right this Ship of State.
The Mueller Report clearly shows that the only people in collusion with Russia were the Obama Admin, Hillary Rodham Clinton and William Jefferson Clinton. The Durham Report further clarifies the levels of criminal actions taken by Democrats to further their insurrection against the people of America.