Obama and DiCaprio
© YouTube screen CaptureScreenshot of President Obama Listening while DiCaprio Calls for “Deniers” to be banned from public office.
Climate advocate Leonardo DiCaprio has called for climate "deniers" to be banned from public office. President Obama, sharing a stage with DiCaprio, did not object - Obama's words in my opinion appear to actually lend some support to DiCaprio's outrageous demand, for limiting the US people's freedom to choose leaders who represent their views.
DiCaprio: Climate change doubters shouldn't hold public office

Politicians who don't believe in climate change should not hold public office, said actor Leonardo DiCaprio Monday at the White House before the screening of his new climate documentary.

"The scientific consensus is in and the argument is now over," DiCaprio said at the White House's South By South Lawn event.

"If you do not believe in climate change, you do not believe in facts or in science or empirical truths and therefore, in my humble opinion, should not be allowed to hold public office."

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"Climate change is almost perversely designed to be really hard to solve politically. It is a problem that creeps up on you," Obama said.

"The political system in every country is not well-designed to do something tough now to solve a problem that people will really feel the impact of in the future."

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How many tyrants and dictators through history have used the pretext of an imminent disaster to seize control, to deprive people of their freedom?

It is one thing for a hypocritical jetset climate clown like DiCaprio to say something outrageous and anti-democratic. But it is an entirely different issue, when the serving President of the United States, who took an oath to defend the US constitution, fails to discharge his duty by speaking up against a high profile verbal attack against the liberty of the people he swore to protect.