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Marc Maron

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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

But, but it seemed like the intention on, on your behalf.

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

And I noticed this is a, something that happened to me recently.

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

I was in Canada, you know, for a couple of days.

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

And I was talking to somebody up there, and I said, the best thing that Trump has done is bring your country together.

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

But it was fundamentally like, you know, despite whatever differences they have, and it is a parliamentary system up there, but it's individuals that, however they were leaning culturally, right or left, that when, you know, the bullying started and the tariffs started and the threats started...

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

they were able to go down to their core beliefs of what their country meant and what it meant to them and how they were going to come together and rebuild from the inside so we don't have to deal with this.

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

But it struck me as to like, well,

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

And I know the answer to some level.

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

How are we not capable of it?

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

How is it that most people don't understand the civic responsibility or the civic structure of how this country is supposed to work outside of the people that are shamelessly against it?

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

A sense of unity, a sense of people helping each other.

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

I believe that what you're talking about politically in terms of –

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

what we spoke about earlier, that people are different and some may have different beliefs, but there was a compromise that could be met and that tolerance in and of itself is conditional to democracy working.

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

But the brains have been broken through exploiting grievance and anger.

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

And in talking about the left, the fact that so many decided to not vote at a protest because they didn't feel that the situation in Israel, the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and whatnot was not going to be dealt with by Kamala or however that goes.

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

So you get this protest vote of people not willing to make a compromise for what you used to talk about as the incremental progress.

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1686 - Barack Obama

We can make it better.