In a stunning display of political amnesia, former President Barack Obama appeared on a YouTube podcast this week calling Los Angeles' homelessness crisis "morally — ethically speaking… an atrocity." The only problem? Obama seems to have conveniently forgotten that he literally wrote the playbook for the failed progressive policies that created this mess in the first place.
Speaking on YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen's podcast Monday, Obama expressed shock and dismay at conditions he apparently just discovered in one of America's most liberal cities. This is the same Barack Obama who spent eight years promoting the exact big-government, soft-on-crime, regulation-heavy approach that has turned LA into a third-world nightmare.
The Architect of America's Urban Decline
Let's be clear about what we're witnessing here, Patriots. This isn't Obama having a genuine revelation — this is damage control. After years of championing the very policies that created tent cities, open-air drug markets, and streets covered in human waste, the former president is trying to distance himself from the inevitable results.
Obama's administration pushed federal funding toward "progressive" homeless programs that prioritized ideology over results. His Justice Department targeted police departments with consent decrees that handcuffed law enforcement. His policies encouraged the kind of permissive approach to drug use and petty crime that has made LA unlivable for ordinary Americans.
"It's rich hearing Obama call this an atrocity when his own policies laid the foundation for exactly these conditions," said one former LA police officer who requested anonymity. "We warned them this would happen, but they called us racists."
Now, with President Trump's second term focused on cleaning up America's cities through actual law enforcement and accountability, suddenly Obama discovers that maybe — just maybe — letting people shoot up heroin on sidewalks isn't compassionate after all.
The timing isn't coincidental. As Trump's administration prepares major initiatives to tackle urban decay and homelessness through proven methods rather than progressive virtue signaling, Democrats are scrambling to rewrite history and avoid responsibility for the disasters they created.
Obama can call LA's homelessness an atrocity all he wants — but Americans remember who built the blueprint for this failure. The question is: will voters let Democrats escape accountability for the urban hellscapes they created?