At least President Obama’s consistent. In what’s likely his final interview with Rolling Stone as a sitting president, Obama basically told the magazine that yes, he does think America leans progressive in its overall political view and that if it hadn’t been for that pesky Fox News, then voters would have blared forth these progressive tendencies loud and clear in recent elections.
His consistency is on two points: First, his breathtaking ability to ignore facts in favor of fantasy personal visions – his near-psychotic hubris, if you will, that frees him to completely dismiss reason. And second: His uncanny-like ability to relate all political woes to Fox News.
It’s amazing, really. Obama’s failure to acknowledge facts is probably his greatest legacy – it puts him smack inside the camp of the world’s other great deniers, like Kim Jong Un –”what starving?” – and Fidel Castro, who spent years shaking off those silly overseas’ accusations while loudly wondering, “what poverty?” Make room, because here comes Obama, who can still maintain, with straight face it seems, that despite the voters’ resounding smack-down of all-things-far left in this recent presidential election cycle, the America he knows and loves still leans far left.
And that leads to his second point, well-played throughout his two terms of White House office, which goes like this: It’s only ’cause of Fox News that there are any detractors of the far-left vision at all.
Here’s Obama’s answer in full, to the question of “You think it’s still a progressive country?” posed by Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner:
“I think that nothing is determined, but that the number of people who have a strong belief in a fair, just, equal, inclusive America is the majority and is growing.
“And part of the challenge, though, that we do have, and this is something that I’ve been chewing on for a while now, is that there is a cohort of working-class white voters that voted for me in sizable numbers, but that we’ve had trouble getting to vote for Democrats in midterm elections. In this election, [they] turned out in huge numbers for Trump.
“And I think that part of it has to do with our inability, our failure, to reach those voters effectively. Part of it is Fox News in every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the country, but part of it is also Democrats not working at a grassroots level, being in there, showing up, making arguments. That part of the critique of the Democratic Party is accurate.
“We spend a lot of time focused on international policy and national policy and less time being on the ground. And when we’re on the ground, we do well. This is why I won Iowa.”
And in case you missed it, here’s one more interesting sidebar to note: Apparently, Obama thinks the whole white working classes spend their free time in bars, perhaps sucking down beer while gazing like deer in headlights at Fox News, ingesting the propaganda along with their alcohol.
Suddenly, it’s not hard to see why Republicans cleaned house this past November, is it?
But remember: This is the party that just reelected Nancy Pelosi, like-minded Obama sidekick, as House Minority Leader. In other words, Obama may be leaving office, but Democrats haven’t learned their lesson. Expect the elitism personified by Obama to carry into the party’s next wave of elections.
