WINNIPEG — Barack Obama says there is a danger in the United States and around the world with politics being driven by passions disconnected from facts.
“I think the danger that we have sometimes now in our politics in the United States, and what I’m seeing internationally, is us being driven by passions, and (we) are disconnected from facts, that in fact deliberately are shielded from facts and reason and logic,” Obama said in Winnipeg on Monday evening.
“And what is supported is a story of us being right and them being wrong.”
The former president spoke to a sold-out crowd of 13,500 at the Bell MTS Centre during the first Canadian stop of the “Conversation with President Barack Obama” tour on Monday evening.
Obama reflected on entering office during the global economic crisis of 2007-08 and said he had great confidence that if the government made smart decisions — relying on facts, reason, logic, evidence and science — the country could largely recover.
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While never mentioning current U.S. President Donald Trump, Obama said he’s worried about the response to a similar situation today.
“If we had a crisis today, I am concerned about the — at least the United States — that…
