Pete Buttigieg: “If our economic and political and social systems were…”

“I do think there is a risk that we might imagine that our job is to take power and just put everything back the way it was. But that's not going to work either. If our economic and political and social systems were working just fine, we wouldn't be here. So the old status quo can't be the answer. We've got to have new answers and we've got to take big swings at major political reform.” (06:40–06:47)

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