On the recordJune 8, 2021
There is a great danger that we just shut out anything that contradicts our own sense of righteousness in these big debates.
Source
transcripts.cnn.com“There is a great danger that we just shut out anything that contradicts our own sense of righteousness in these big debates.”
Barack Obama discusses the dangers of becoming insular in political debates and ignoring opposing views.
Share
More from Barack Obama
This race is going to be close. It could determine which party controls the Senate and whether Ohioans can count on the people in Washington to be fighting for you.
And I will fight for that, even if I don’t always think it’s going to win.
If I had a blame pie for why politics is so polarised and why we're seeing a rise of populism in many places, it's because of that information that is going into our brains every day.
Other voices in this conversation