You're not alone if you refuse to accept the idea that we can't fund rural hospitals or, or good schools or better roads at a moment when The wealthiest people in this country pay a lower tax rate than the nurses who work in those hospitals and the teachers who teach in those schools and the workers who work on their roads. That is not a minority view. And so there's a kind of a sleeping giant to be awakened here. And I know your father talked about the quilt, that, that common ground, that stitching together that has to happen. (17:41–17:59)
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