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Obama argues that we won’t fix our political problems unless we rediscover our moral compass first

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MAGA has no moral compass. They've conned themselves into believing that a dementia riddled drug addled lifelong conman and literal best friend of the most notorious child sex trafficker and predator on earth is a paragon of virtue and intelligence. Idk if they can come back from that.

Everyone needs a paradigm shift in their thinking. Use this as your foundational thesis: hyper capitalist corporate fascism has been the default economic reality since globalization took over in the 80’s/90’s. Every country uses some cocktail of Socialism as a tool to counteract that.

Efficient/smart democracies use it in a ground up preemptive way to handle affordability. Dumb democracies like ours use it as an emergency measure and things costs twice as much therefore. Autocracies like China use it top down to crush dissent but also dominate the global electric car industry.

The wealthy will argue taxes for social safety nets are more expensive. But they know that in their American model of how Socialism is used, they can steal a family’s entire generational wealth with one health emergency. In Scandinavia, wealth building may be slower, but it’s much more sustainable.

Trump keeps rambling on about a third term, seems to me that if anyone should get one it is Obama. At least he will give some credibility back to the USA on the world stage. I don't think the democrats have anyone right now capable of doing that. They haven't shown enough backbone so far.

Dude is campaigning for candidates who are actively opposing universal human rights. IIRC Obama is also a war criminal and never had a moral compass in the first place

I'm going through some, "Going high when others go low" PTSD. Conservatives have shown their compass is broken. It points to whatever is politically expedient. We're not going through all this to make nice once Trump is out of office.

Yep. First things first. BTW - we will never be what we were. There is no "Again" in what happens next. But a new "different" than this hellscape would be nice.

No. We have our moral compass. We HATE this regime. The corruption, the cruelty, the murder, the invasion and war. The elimination of the rule of law. We need to discover prison cells for all these traitors to to the US Constitution.

Watched his rally in Ohio and he moved me (as he always does). His statesmanship,intelligence,character and leadership moved me as he always has (since he was a young senator)he made me laugh,cry and gave me hope and determination as he did so many years ago.The best president in my lifetime!

Barack Obama stood with the banks and the rich against working families. We know all about his moral compass. Over 6 million families foreclosed. Pets put in shelters. Cherished toys placed on the curb for trash pickup. The working and middle classes have never recovered.

He continues with the same rhetoric he used in 2008, generalizing how "we" need to rediscover our moral compass, which is BS when it's only about half the country that's at fault, and if you want to win them back you have to accomplish much bigger things when in power than the Democrats ever try to.

Yes. Part of the moral compass is to acknowledge society, the significance of other people, the importance of interpersonal ethics, the importance in serious political and economic discussions of honesty, sincerity, fairness, basically a complete repudiation of conservatism, Republicanism.

Especially in economics, for goodness sake try to understand the big issues that divide us are not technical, scientific, objective; they're normative, philosophical, based in subjective moral sentiments. The big contentious issues have to do with normative economics, not positive economics.

Boom. How'd we get here? Standard practices like misogyny and racism. No reparation, ERA not ratified in all 50 states. Wanna talk about pedos in office? 34 states...count 'em still have legalized child brides on the books. We got here because we never changed our national tune morally and legally.

8 year not enough? The world is going down the toilet with the same amount of time. It’s a choice, a political choice.

Obama means we won't fix our problems until Democrats have control of everything, because no Republican has a moral compass.

If Trump changes the Constitution to allow presidents to serve third terms, he just may face Obama in the '28 showdown! Can't hardly wait for the presidential debates!! Wouldn't THAT be fun to watch??!!!

Harris wiped the floor with the Felon during the debate. If the Felon had to debate Obama, he would seriously stroke out right on stage. Would love to see it, but under no circumstances would the Felon’s handlers ever let him get on a debate stage with Obama.

Such an uplifting speech, re-empowering us as voters, reminding us of our SUPER POWER!!!!! LOVE THIS GUY!!!!💙💙💙 This was so helpful, to remind us of what normal sb. And, how far off track we currently are!!! Thank you, MR. PRESIDENT!!!

Moral compass died when trump came down that escalator. Democrats need to stop reaching across the aisle to fascist, if they get power back they need to squash them, stop letting them take credit for Democratic policies and projecting. Stop the propoganda ,hate, lies, and rhetoric, and hypocrisy.

Empty rhetoric—these Fundamentalist Christian Ghouls think they’re more MORAL than all Others in the world put together! How else did amoral assholes SELL decimating American Women’s right to Privacy and Bodily Autonomy? Or every other travesty they managed to market to the flag waving churchy set?

I cannot express how much I miss this man. If not for the likes of Moscow Mitch McConnell with his racist fascist agenda, this nation could have made its’ greatest strides with his leadership, diplomacy, intelligence, and humanity.

If Trump runs for a Third term then Obama has to run against him for his third term run! And when Obama wins it’ll be the defeat of evil!

America again ask yourselves "can you change" yes you can and for America you must, ask not what America can do for you, it is gravely ill, do what you can for America on Nov 3rd get out and vote for that change, not for some loose change

Everytime I hear this man talk, I get teary eyed. I miss him and Michelle so much and I miss the vibe we were all feeling back when they lived in the White House. I'll never forgive those that brought us here when we could have kept evolving.

We won't fucking fix our political problems until we put a fucking boot to the neck of MAGA and the billionaires and fucking step down hard until they fucking squeal. Fuck this we need decency shit. We need to fucking punish them until they fear fucking doing this shit ever again.

since the FBI didn't do shit about all the reports they had of trafficking I think we have to acknowledge that we lost that compass awhile ago. But now that all that sh*t is in our face we can't just go back to the same ole same ole. We have to be better than we are and better than we were.

Vacuous bullshit. This fucker dropped 92000 bombs on the developing world. 72 a day in his final year. He is a piece af shit. As is every single US president in history. You are the evil empire.

Each of us must listen to this message & respond accordingly For us to demand decent, moral, sincere people running the country we must be decent, moral, sincere people ourselvs Otherwise we are just shouting at the moon

RepubliCONs don't have a moral compass. They are driven by greed, racism, nationalism, and selfishness. How do we "rehabilitate" people who believe empathy is a weakness?

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We. I understand it's 'we the people' but really he would've been 100% correct if he said they. I didn't lose my moral compass, I have nothing to rediscover & I know there are tens of millions of people who feel the same. I still hold the same values that I did 30 yrs ago & I'm proud of my choices.

I concur. Over the last 10 years racism and testosterone has been the driving force. For the life of me, I don’t understand why women didn’t vote in their entirety for an educated dark skinned female. I suppose skin color won the day. Or rather lost the day!

I appreciate what Obama is doing here but when has there ever been a moral compass these people adhered to? They will murder, rape, steal, overthrow the govt to maintain white supremacy. It’s been proven time and time again.

My moral compass tells me we need to take a sledgehammer to the current pay to play transnational criminal system both parties take part in. The system that clearly led us here. We, the people, are last in this system. So many have been brutalized and killed. Consequences are moral in this time.

For MAGA the moral compass is faulty and stuck pointing at the most corrupt President ever. Old enough to remember Nixon and his failures and now has been overtaken by corruption and fraud by Trump and his sycophant GOP.

What if ~30% of the country just have no moral compass? I mean, they elected a rapist and convicted fraudster. Clearly they don't care anything about righting their moral compass The first thing we have to do is lock up the corrupt criminals in Washington and show the country that laws still matter

We can do several things at the same time even when the situation is as DIRE as it is right now…I get that our country appears to be morally bankrupt, but we do not have time to do endless morality fixes. We need to fight for all of it right the hell NOW!

For sure! No time to try and fix any pesky morality issues! If we throw the trans community under the bus and tell them to vote for bigots on OUR side, all will be well in no time! Love that 'incremental change' that means we ain't gotta do ANYTHING hard...