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Barack Obama: “If you want to deliver on change, then it's a game of…”

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Barack Obama Discusses Democracy, Social Cohesion, and Leadership at the Connecticut Forum

Published | Video Starts at 1:04:02

Is important to be impatient with injustice and cruelty. And there's a healthy outrage that we should be exhibiting in terms of what's currently happening both here and around the world. But If you want to deliver on change, then it's a game of addition, not subtraction, which means you have to find ways to make common ground with people who don't agree with you on everything, but agree with you on some things. And, you know, we were talking about social media earlier. It's part of. Of the reason why my favorite app, or I guess it wasn't an app program, whatever it was, I don't know, always the terminology when we were running our campaign was meetup. (1:04:02–1:04:20)

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Asserts that achieving change requires finding common ground with those who partially disagree.

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