CNN’s Abby Phillip appears to be inching closer to the ongoing problem on the left of living in an elitist echo chamber.
While speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics this week, Phillips said that she has noticed that liberal elites tend to talk only to each other and risk falling into groupthink.
This is one of the main reasons why people on the left were once again, completely unprepared for a Trump victory on election night. Leftists spent the entire election listening only to outlets like CNN and MSNBC which told them that the race was close and that we wouldn’t know the outcome for days.
Phillips is making baby steps towards the truth here.
Transcript via Twitter/X:
Abby Phillip: “I have observed that elites increasingly talk only to each other and come to believe that because there is consensus among them that that consensus is shared broadly and there are not enough voices that are confident enough to disagree and to present alternatives.
We as a society need to find better ways to uplift divergent voices. Otherwise, we will be victims of groupthink.
And there is a there there is an activist class. And this is particularly acute in the Democratic Party right now. There is an activist class in the Democratic Party that is multiracial, multiethnic.
It is diverse, but it’s an activist class. And so because of that, they don’t they’re not able to see outside of that.
Democrats are in that place now where they have to break out of it. And I think it is a real problem. It’s not as simple as wokeness or whatever. It’s about people who are being incentivized to think about issues in a particular way.
And usually it’s it’s that light switches either on or off, right? It’s no nuance. There’s no nuance. Right. Because they they’re activists like they’re paid to kind of be in this lane.
There needs to be more courage among people to speak out and to voice diverging opinions. Otherwise, you know, I think it’s a I think it’s a real issue. And it’s not just the Ivy League.”
Watch the video below:
Abby Phillip describes the Democrat party as a group of elites who fall prey to groupthink because they lack confident voices who disagree effectively:
Abby Phillip: “I have observed that elites increasingly talk only to each other and come to believe that because there is… pic.twitter.com/bv8tqYVJe6— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) November 19, 2024
Abby Phillip may want to share these thoughts with her colleagues at CNN. They need to hear it more than anyone else.
