Robert Redford sat down with CNN’s Nischelle Turner for an interview telling her that the U.S. government has become paralyzed through a combination of bigotry, fear of change and a desire to destroy President Obama and his legacy.
Speaking of the recent standoff between President Obama and Congress, Redford noted:
“It’s so divided now with the people that are so narrow and so limited that they would take us back into the past. And I was trying to figure out, why are these people behaving so stupidly? Why are they behaving so horribly that it’s crippling our whole country?”
“And I think it has to do with fear. I think it’s a group of people that are so afraid of change, and they’re so narrow-minded that some people — when they see change coming — get so threatened by change, they get angry and they get terrorized, and then they get vicious. I think that’s who these people are. They’re so afraid of change that they’re behaving miserably.”
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“There is a body of congressional people that wants to paralyze the system. I think what sits underneath it, unfortunately, is there’s probably some racism involved, which is really awful.”
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“They wanted, if it meant destroying the government, anything to keep him [Obama] from succeeding. I think just the idea of giving credit to this President, giving him credit for anything, is abhorrent to them, so they’ll go against it. Never mind that it’s the better good of the people, never mind that they’re supposed to be in office representing the interest of the public. They’re representing their own self-interests, which is very narrow and in some cases bigoted.”
You can watch a clip below, courtesy of CNN:
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