Barack Obama has accused the American people of becoming “toxic and just so divided and so bitter.”
However, Obama claims he doesn’t “understand how” it allegedly happened.
Obama made the remarks while speaking at a rally for Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris in Wisconsin on Tuesday.
“I don’t understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter,” Obama told the crowd.
“I get why sometimes people just don’t want to pay attention to it.
“And we all have friends like that.
“We have family members who are just like, ‘Ahh, y’know, it’s all a circus out there.’”
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However, the Democrats and their allies have repeatedly pushed toxic and divisive rhetoric about their opponents.
A July 2016 Rasmussen poll, taken six months before Obama left office, noted that 60% of Americans felt race relations had gotten worse under Obama’s presidency.
In 2016, twice-failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton infamously remarked during a campaign rally:
“You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables.’
“Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you name it.”
When he was running for president, Obama infamously said in April 2008:
“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
In 2008, Obama also said: “I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.”
“I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry. I’m angry,” he said in 2009.
On the prospect of Republicans taking back the House of Representatives, Obama said in 2010:
“They see an opportunity to take back the House, maybe take back the Senate.
“If they’re successful in doing that, they’ve already said they’re going to go back to the same policies that were in place during the Bush administration.
“That means that we are going to have just hand-to-hand combat up here on Capitol Hill.”
Just before the 2010 election, Obama said:
“If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies, and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us’ — if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election — then I think it’s going to be harder.”
Obama claimed in 2014 that racism was “deeply rooted” in America, stating:
“This is something that’s deeply rooted in our society, deeply rooted in our history.”
In 2016, Obama spoke at a memorial service for five Dallas police officers ambushed and gunned down by a man.
According to Dallas police chief David Brown, the killer said that he “wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.”
In his speech, Obama declared:
“America, we know that bias remains. We know it.
“Whether you are black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or of Middle Eastern descent, we have all seen this bigotry in our own lives at some point.
“We’ve heard it at times in our own homes.
“If we’re honest, perhaps we’ve heard prejudice in our own heads and felt it in our own hearts.
“We know that. And while some suffer far more under racism’s burden, some feel to a far greater extent discrimination’s sting.
“Although most of us do our best to guard against it and teach our children better, none of us is entirely innocent.
“No institution is entirely immune.
“And that includes our police departments. We know this.”
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