Here is a Press Conference question during President Obama's recent post election visit to Greece this week
"Mr President, ever since the election there have been protests on the streets of the United States and earlier this year Matt Lauer asked you if you believed you help create the environment for Donald Trump to run and you answered "talk to me if he wins about how responsible I feel about it"
I wonder do you feel any responsibility for the election of Donald Trump and in the broader context when you see his election? when you look at politicians like Theresa May, Marie Le Pen, do you believe that it is either a movement away from or an outright rejection of your world view and Mr prime-minister you've also talked about your concerns about the rise of the extreme right in general and about Donald Trump in particular you said "I hope we will not face this evil", do you believe that Donald Trump or his ideas are still evil? and if so do you believe your comments and the comments of other European leaders will make it more difficult for you to work with him?, thank you"
President Barak Obama's reply:
"Well first of all, I think it's fair to say that I was surprised by the election results and I've said so. Uhhm, I still don't feel responsible for what the president elect says or does but I do feel a responsibility as president of the United States to make sure that I facilitate a good transition and I present to him as well as the American people my best thinking, my best ideas about how you move the country forward. To speak out with respect to areas where I think the republican party is wrong but to pledge to work with them on those things that I think will advance the causes of security, prosperity and justice and inclusiveness in America.
I think it's important not to start drawing parallels for example between Theresa May, a fairly traditional conservative politician who's now prime-minister and Le Pen in France, those aren't the same and the situation in each country is different.
I do think as I said before that history doesn't move in a straight line, it zigs and zags and sometimes goes forward, sometimes moves back..sideways. I think at times of significant stress people are gonna be looking for something and they don't always know exactly what it is that they're looking for and they may opt for change even if they're not entirely confident what that change will bring.
As you know throughout my presidency I'm sure as a matter of convenience I generally haven't paid a lot of attention to the polls, but since your questions is directly related to the notion of a rejection of my world view...last I checked, a pretty healthy majority of the American people agree with my world view on a whole bunch of things and I know that begs the question well how is it that somebody who appears to have a very different world view just got elected? As I said sometimes people just feel as if we wanna try something to see if we can shake things up and that I suspect was a significant phenomena.
I do believe separate and apart from any particular election or movement that we are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism or ethnic identity or tribalism that is built around an us and a them. And I will never apologise for saying that the future of humanity and the future of the world is gonna be defined by what we have in common as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict.
Take Europe, we know what happens when Europeans start dividing themselves up and emphasising their differences and seeing a competition between various countries in a zero-sum way. The twentieth century was a blood bath and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last 5 decades have been periods of unprecedented peace, growth and prosperity in Europe and the United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity. It's dangerous, not just for the minority groups that are subjected to that kind of discrimination or in some cases in the past, violence but because we then don't realise our potential as a country. When we're preventing blacks or Latino or Asians or gays or women from fully participating in the project of building American life. So my vision's right on that issue and it may not always win the day in the short term in any particular political circumstance but I am confident it will win the day over the long term because societies in which we are able to unify ourselves around values and ideals and character, and how we treat each other and cooperation and innovation, ultimately gonna be more successful than societies that don't. That's my strong belief, and I think I've got pretty good evidence to prove it"...
--Transcribed to typed word by myself, from the actual spoken audio from this video version:
There has also been unrest in Greece since President Obama's visit.
Who would have thought the 'far right' choice would seem so ideal? We are living in revolutionary times, with revolutionary 'all or nothing' choices and certainly revolutionary consequences no matter which way we vote. It's also too late to turn back now, the results have already shown that too many people are opposing the vision and reality of Globalism and the corruption that seems to hold the hand of that level of power. Or perhaps too few are successfully brainwashed to pave the way to a smooth transition.
My personal opinion is, yes the ordinary people all around the world have been pushed to this point and this has a direct correlation to where we are today with the choices we now have. There is only one choice left to make. The right one for our Fathers, our Mothers, our Sons, our Daughters, our Brothers and Sisters and all the generations to come. Let it be the right one
Be true to yourself, remember each other, remember Jesus and hold on this could be a bumpy ride...
Which way is your utopia?
Thank you for reading
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