Barack Obama: “I view Social Security and Medicare as the most important social safety nets that we have.”

The success of this experiment was never a given.

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.