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ElementalPee ago

This was taken out of context.

And those ideas eventually inspired a band of colonialists across an ocean, and they wrote them into the founding documents that still guide America today, including the simple truth that all men -- and women -- are created equal.

But those ideals have also been tested -- here in Europe and around the world. Those ideals have often been threatened by an older, more traditional view of power. This alternative vision argues that ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs, that order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign. Often, this alternative vision roots itself in the notion that by virtue of race or faith or ethnicity, some are inherently superior to others, and that individual identity must be defined by "us" versus "them," or that national greatness must flow not by what a people stand for, but by what they are against.

I think some folks are trying to argue that he was secretly advocating for that since he set it up as if he doesn't agree, but he doesn't actually explicitly reject it. Seems a little far fetched to me but I don't know anything. I'm just a guy.

Edit: here is the full speech

New_FoundingFathers ago

If you wanna defend Obama please go back to spending your time on Reddit dude

Pawn ago

Please go back to reddit if you want to pitchfork with only feelings and no thought.