President Obama will tell the nation tonight that, among other things, it must “fix” politics.
“A better politics doesn’t mean we have to agree on everything,” Obama will say during his last State of the Union address before Congress tonight. “Our founders distributed power between states and branches of government and expected us to argue, just as they did, over the size and shape of government, over commerce and foreign relations, over the meaning of liberty and imperatives of security,” Obama will say, according to the White House.
“But democracy does require basic bonds of trust between its citizens.”
The United States realizing its full potential as a nation and providing the American Dream to as many as possible “will only happen if we fix our politics,” Obama will say during the speech that beings at 9 p.m. in Washington.
