Obama Says Dems Made a Mistake: What People Are Starved For, Is the Ability to Tell a Moral Story About How We Live in This Moment

‘There’s an underline moral foundation’

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OBAMA: “The moral challenges that we face right now. We have big policy. Challenges. A big policy challenge. We need to get right. Climate change is still a big policy chance. We need get right, income, inequality in wealth, inequality and and making the economic system work for everyone, not just a few still a big priority, but underlying all that, I think there is a what people are starved for. The moment is the ability to tell a moral and ethical story about how we live together. In this moment, and and I think one of the mistakes that I’ll I’ll just say, Democrats and some on the left made for awhile- was making everything mechanical and instrumental and materialistic about tax policy in earned income tax credits. All that. Stuff is important, but there’s an underlying. Moral foundation, to how do we see each other and treat each other that so often came out of the church or synagogue or temple mosque, religious traditions and and not? Everybody participates in organized religion, those same ways, but that that essential questions around that our our leaders have to be able to speak that language in a in in a serious way and an earnest way"

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Obama Says Dems Made a Mistake: What People Are Starved For, Is the Ability to Tell a Moral Story About How We Live in This Moment