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Barack Obama: “It's probably as weak as it's been since I been alive.”

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

Published | Video Starts at 28:14

I go back to what I talked about earlier. Our biggest challenge right now is we need democracy and social cohesion and trust more than ever. And It's probably as weak as it's been since I been alive. And that's a bad combination. And so if we're going to fix all these other problems, if we're going to deal with climate change effectively, if we're going to deal … (28:14–28:26)

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Asserts that democracy, social cohesion, and trust are currently at their weakest since his birth.

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