“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

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On the recordOctober 29, 2022
A politics where some in office or who aspire to office, work to stir up division, to make folks as angry and as afraid of one another for their own advantage. All of this has been amped up, hyped up, 24/7 on social media, on platforms that oftentimes find controversy and conflict more profitable than telling the truth.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois
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Former President Obama critiques the divisive nature of current political discourse.

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