The healthy brains of all individuals, from peasant to president, are essentially the same.
Conscious minds, facilitated by the brain, also can be similar, in certain respects, but usually differ in conditioning by virtue of different learning and experience, circumstances, hierarchical position, different weight of responsibility.
Postconscious minds are special, in that they are the same not only structurally but also in that all have the same function, which is moral truth. The postconscious should represent humanity, with the conscious its executive, but our current reality makes it expedient that in high-level affairs we follow the conscious mind from one debacle to another, moral truth being largely ignored
When you ask a president something, his fundamental postconscious mind, and yours, and that of every member of an audience, hold the same position. All recognise, or at least sense the moral truth that would bring love, peace, security and tranquility. But all are also painfully aware that our current reality is full of hate, danger, fear and violence.
So the president's answer will come from his conscious mind, taking account of current reality, however crazy, compromising between extremes and courting the least repercussion.
The media will read realistically between the lines, follow editorial policy in its interpretation and make the story as sensational as possible.
The wider audience, whether calling themselves Socialist or Democrat, Republican or Conservative or whatever, failing to make sense of it all because it doesn't make sense, are left in a state of impotent despair and respond with anger, or else resort to ribald or sophisticated humour.
We are not helpless. We can bring awareness of moral truth to the forefront of our minds, increasingly making itself felt against the false drives we are presently obliged to pursue. Certain moves could be made. Could there be a public but highest level meeting between the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds at which, for instance, the Muslim world could explain honestly to America what makes them hate America and the USA could equally honestly respond, and where both sides would admit to and genuinely undertake to rectify their faults, taking the wind out of the sails of the violent factions on each side?
Held to be a big obstacle to agreement between these two sides is the difference of religion, yet reasonable Muslims and Christians seem to agree as to moral essentials. Would it be unreasonable to propose that both abandoned their religion, replacing it with respect for the common moral truth?
See also: www.humantruth.org/countex8.htm and www.humantruth.org/polilaw.htm