Obama: Democrats 'thumped' election deniers in key midterm races
Obama: Democrats ‘thumped’ election deniers in key midterm races
By Gregory Krieg and Dan Merica, CNN
Updated 10:15 PM EST, Thu November 17, 2022
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On ‘culture wars’
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Obama, in a keynote speech focused on global politics at the Obama Foundation Democracy Forum, offered another post-election warning Thursday: “We’re going to have to figure out how to live together, or we will destroy each other.”
“One of humanity’s greatest achievements in the modern era has been the recognition” that diverse sets of people need to be represented in government, Obama said, but he added that it also has led “people who are accustomed to being at the top of the pecking order … to feel their status in society threatened when the existing order goes through rapid changes.”
The former president cautioned that “escalating polarization and disinformation so evident in recent elections” occurred in the United States, as well as Brazil, the Philippines, Italy and Sweden.
“Let me be clear, here – the threat to democracy doesn’t always run along a conservative/liberal, left/right axis. This has nothing to do with traditional partisan lines or policy preferences. What we are seeing, what’s being challenged, are the foundational principles of democracy itself,” Obama said. “The notion that all citizens have a right to freely participate in selecting who governs them; the notion that votes will be counted and the party that gets more votes wins; that losers concede, power is transferred peacefully, that the winners don’t abuse the machinery of government to punish the losers.”
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