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It's up to all of us to fix this. Obama's unofficial State of the Union (April 4) subs EN-NL-DE-FR

Five minutes from the 'conversation at Hamilton College' on April the 4th, addressing the present political situation - subs via settings. 1:13 It is up to all of us to fix this 2:35 You may have to sacrifice a little bit 3:20 Stand up for what we believe in 4:44 Examine our own hearts Transcript:   / conversation-at-hamilton-college   This has to do with something more precious, which is who are we as a country and what values do we stand for? [...] One of the things that has distinguished us in the past has been this basic idea that we are a rules-based society. What that means is that you know what? I can support one candidate instead of another, and I don’t have to worry that the police are going to come harass me or my customers. That’s what happens in other places. That’s what happens in Russia. We take for granted the idea that we don’t have to pay bribes or hire somebody’s cousin in order to get a business permit. That’s how we built the economy we did. That’s why this place worked. It has very concrete impacts on all of our lives. Let me just close this portion of my remarks by saying it is up to all of us to fix this. It’s not going to be because somebody comes and saves you. The most important office in this democracy is the citizen, the ordinary person who says, no, that’s not right. I do think one of the reasons that our commitment to democratic ideals has eroded is that we got pretty comfortable and complacent. It has been easy during most of our lifetimes to say you are a progressive or say you are for social justice or say you’re for free speech and not have to pay a price for it. Now we’re at one of those moments where, you know what? It’s not enough just to say you’re for something; you may actually have to do something and possibly sacrifice a little bit. If you’re a law firm being threatened, you might have to say, okay, we will lose some business because we’re going to stand for a principle. If you are a university, you may have to figure out, are we in fact doing things right? Have we in fact violated our own values, our own code, violated the law in some fashion? If not, and you’re just being intimidated, well, you should be able to say, that’s why we got this big endowment. We’ll stand up for what we believe in, and we’ll pay our researchers for a while out of that endowment, and we’ll give up the extra wing or the fancy gymnasium — that we can delay that for a couple of years because academic freedom might be a little more important. For most of human history, and to this day, in most of places in the world, there is a cost to challenging the powers that be, particularly if they’re abusing that power. There’s this idea, and I’ve noticed this among some wealthier folks who after George Floyd, they were right there and a bunch of companies were talking about how they cared about diversity, and they wanted to do this, and they were all for that. They are mute right now. But what that tells me is it was okay when it was cool and trendy and when it’s not, not so much. That, I think, is what each of us has to examine in our own hearts. We say we’re for equality, are we willing to fight for it? Are we going to risk something for it? We say that we’re for rule of law, are we going to stick to that when it’s tough not when it’s easy? We believe in freedom of speech; do we stand up for freedom of speech when the other person talking is saying stuff that infuriates us and is wrong and hurtful? Do we still believe in it? [not in the video, but relevant as well] ... Trying to shout hem down, not letting them speak, even if I find their ideas obnoxious, well, not only is that not what universities should be about, that’s not what America should be about. You let them speak and then you tell them why they’re wrong. That’s how you win the argument.