he told you about this shocking wall street journal that found that the values that have defined america for generations, the foundations of our society collapsing since 1998 the number of americans who viewed patriotism as important dropping from 70% to 38. the importance of religion dropped from 62% to 39%. having children dropped from 59% to just 30%. community involvement down. the only area that americans see as more important than it was 25 years ago, having money. what we are seeing are the awful consequences of a broken society. this is deeper than politics. spreading through multiple administrations. that is because neither republicans nor democrats, it seems to me, have really tried to understand let alone address the reasons why our society is so broken. i wrote about this a few years ago in my book more human. so many things in our lives have become too big and bureaucratic and distant from the human scale. big government centralizing power. taking it away from lo
he told you about this shocking wall street journal that found that the values that have defined america for generations, the foundations of our society collapsing since 1998 the number of americans who viewed patriotism as important dropping from 70% to 38. the importance of religion dropped from 62% to 39%. having children dropped from 59% to just 30%. community involvement down. the only area that americans see as more important than it was 25 years ago, having money. what we are seeing are the awful consequences of a broken society. this is deeper than politics. spreading through multiple administrations. that is because neither republicans nor democrats, it seems to me, have really tried to understand let alone address the reasons why our society is so broken. i wrote about this a few years ago in my book more human. so many things in our lives have become too big and bureaucratic and distant from the human scale. big government centralizing power. taking it away from lo
he told you about this shocking wall street journal that found that the values that have defined america for generations, the foundations of our society collapsing since 1998 the number of americans who viewed patriotism as important dropping from 70% to 38. the importance of religion dropped from 62% to 39%. having children dropped from 59% to just 30%. community involvement down. the only area that americans see as more important than it was 25 years ago, having money. what we are seeing are the awful consequences of a broken society. this is deeper than politics. spreading through multiple administrations. that is because neither republicans nor democrats, it seems to me, have really tried to understand let alone address the reasons why our society is so broken. i wrote about this a few years ago in my book more human. so many things in our lives have become too big and bureaucratic and distant from the human scale. big government centralizing power. taking it away from lo
pick the one you want, i recommend starting with the first one, but if you want to treat yourself to the one that we just published today. i m telling you, norma s a voice is a thing of wild and furious wonder. that will keep you awake for days. new episode today, another episode will come out next monday. you can get it where you get your podcasts. all right, that does it for tonight, i ll see you again soon. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. now it s i m just finishing ms on how you listen to a podcast. so, i m feeling, i can t believe it, i can t believe i m sitting here at 10 pm on a monday and i haven t listened to episode four. one and two, i listened to them immediately when they came out early that monday morning. same thing with episode three. today, i guess i was locked in john ferrell s new news making book about ten kennedy which we are going to discuss at the end of the hour. a lot of important news in that book. somehow, that held me away
october 2020, we reported here on this show on something that we first learned about from one of the great historic, gigantic radio stations in the united states, the michigan behemoth, wwj radio in detroit, michigan. wwj has been on the air for more than 100 years. they re just a huge deal in american broadcasting history. they are still on the air today. they are still a big deal today. and just about exactly two years ago, october 2020, we learned about a story that was broken by a reporter at wwj named sandra mcneill. she had gotten a tip from a listener to wwj in detroit. the listener told her that they received a really, really sketchy robocall about the november 2020 presidential election. now, as we all know, basically every robocall is sketchy, right? robocalls by definition are shady and annoying and almost always scammy, right? everybody knows that. but this one that this detroit resident got before the 2020 election. this one was so bad. it not only seemed worse t