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In a lengthy and slobberingly wide ranging interview the faux-intellectuals at Vox.com
have succeeded at giving President Obama yet another opportunity to
explain why nothing is ever his fault and is usually the fault of people
who disagree with or oppose him.
Ezra Klein, chief minister of propaganda from Vox was
happy to sit down and discuss several popular liberal bugaboos with the
President. We'll share just a few snippets of their incredibly
close-minded and one-sided interview.
On Why Income Inequality has Gotten Worse under Obama
On Why Income Inequality has Gotten Worse under Obama
Well, this has been at least a three-decade-long trend. And this was a major topic in my State of the Union address. We obviously came in at a time of enormous crisis, and the first task was making sure we didn't have a complete global economic meltdown. The steps we took, whether making sure the financial system was functioning — saving the auto industry, encouraging state and local spending — all those things made a difference in buoying the economy…Why is he the Most Polarizing President Ever?
In some ways we're now back to the position where we can focus on what is this longer-term trend, and that is a larger and larger share of wealth and income going to the very top, and the middle class or folks trying to get into the middle class feeling increasingly squeezed because their wages have stagnated.
Now, there are a whole bunch of reasons for that…
Well, there are a couple of things
that in my mind, at least, contribute to our politics being more
polarized than people actually are. And I think most people
just sense this in their daily lives. Everybody's got a family member or
a really good friend from high school who is on the complete opposite
side of the political spectrum. And yet, we still love them, right?
Everybody goes to a soccer game, or watching their kids, coaching, and
they see parents who they think are wonderful people, and then if they
made a comment about politics, suddenly they'd go, "I can't believe you
think that!" But a lot of it has to do with the fact that a) the
balkanization of the media means that we just don't have a common place
where we get common facts and a common worldview the way we did 20, 30
years ago. And that just keeps on accelerating, you know. And I'm not
the first to observe this, but you've got the Fox News/Rush Limbaugh
folks and then you've got the MSNBC folks and the — I don't
know where Vox falls into that, but you guys are, I guess, for the
brainiac-nerd types. But the point is that technology which brings the
world to us also allows us to narrow our point of view. That's
contributed to it.
Gerrymandering contributes to it. There's
no incentive for most members of Congress, on the House side at least,
in congressional districts, to even bother trying to appeal. And a lot
of it has to do with just unlimited money. So people are absorbing an
entirely different reality when it comes to politics, even though the
way they're living their lives and interacting with each other isn't
that polarizing. So my advice to a future president is
increasingly try to bypass the traditional venues that create divisions
and try to find new venues within this new media that are quirkier, less
predictable.
One thing you've probably noticed is
that President Obama wasn't able to find any reason that he might bear
some responsibility on either of these problems. If you go on to read
the entire interview (series of interview actually) you'll find that
this trend continues. President Obama seems to be literally incapable of
understanding that he does bear at least some of the responsibility for
our current struggles on these and many other issues.
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