James Talarico

That's a whole different question.

I think our conservative friends, if they were sitting here, would remind us about the bloody history of governments trying to perfect the individual or trying to enforce moral... I'd say it's our liberal friends who would remind us of that, but fair point.

Well, yeah.

So my point is, just in the question how we're framing it,

economy and government, there's a third dimension to our lives.

It's weakened, it's atrophied over recent years, but we used to have robust communities where we wrestled with these spiritual questions.

Churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, meditation clubs, whatever you're a part of, a community

to deepen the spiritual dimension of our lives.

And that is what we have to rebuild, especially as we enter this new era where figuring out what it means to be human, maintaining real human relationships outside of work and outside of politics is gonna be necessary if we're gonna survive this.

And you mentioned, what can I do as a US Senate candidate?

I actually don't think that's the role.

What can I do in my role as a seminarian, as someone who's studying to become a minister one day, which is a goal of mine?

That hat that I wear, which is related to the politician hat, to me, that's where the solutions are going to come from.

Like I said, I'm all for this.

In fact, I've already worked on those policies.

If we pass that, I'm all for it.

All I'm telling you is that the economic and political solutions are not sufficient.

Sometimes I think my team and I feel like Luke Skywalker infiltrating the Death Star to destroy it.

And sorry to keep bringing everything back to Scripture.

I think it's because we started with a conversation about faith.