wagging the dog when he went and did some bombings three days after his monica lewinsky apology. no one is saying that biden should go to war, more picking an enemy. i think the idea of biden picking child poverty as the enemy, because he has this child tax credit that s very successful. there are a number of enemies he could pick. so, it s interesting, because there s a quote that i want to read from your piece that talks kind of about these enemies and what some of the folks that you interviewed for your piece suggest, so if biden needs to unite voters, whom should he unite them against? he could wage war on poverty, as you mentioned, as lyndon b. johnson did. he could battle division and the forces trying to divide americans or the boston college professor biden could declare war on the authoritarians threatening our democracy, much the same as abraham lincoln did when he pulled northerners together. he could spend more time trying
to make it the poster child for whatever the agenda of the moment was. lazy depictions of stereotypical west virginians. hillbillies and hicks, tucked into isolated hollers to be pitied or made objects of laughter and derision. elaine: if you google appalachia to this day, you re going to see dirty-faced kids, bare foot on a front porch, shaking lyndon b. johnson s hand. there s a lot more to appalachia than that. anthony: in 1964, lyndon johnson declared his war on poverty. a good thing, yes? but the accompanying press tour portraying the people here as an incapable and bewildered helpless masse, missed the basic essential character the pride and the self-reliant core of the people here. that damage is lasting. elaine: when you come in and keep telling us how poor, fat how all these things are i think we ve all felt it at some point. shame.
outcome. quote, i don t know if this speech is going to make a difference, he said after 3:00 a.m. as the new york times reports, the bill still has a long and difficult road ahead. democratic leaders must coaxet through the 50/50 senate and navigate a tortuous budget process almost certain to reshape the measure and force it become to the house, if it passes at all. even pared back from the $3.5 trillion plan that the biden administration originally sought the legislation could prove as transformative as any since the war on poverty in the 1960th especially for young and old americans. joining us jackie amainy, and jonathan lemere. jonathan lemere, i start with you. big day.
volunteerism, enlistments in the army. my own son graduated from harvard that june and joined the army. that spirit seems to have been lost. one of the questions fdr asked in the middle of world war ii when people are grumbling about rationing, only five gallons a week, one cup of coffee a day. he said what is a nation? a nation is when we feel like we re doing something for the common purpose, the common good, we re willing to sacrifice because we believe in the nation. we re at a war. we re at a war with this enemy of covid. where is the national spirit that we re in this together, the collective identity we ve shown in so many other crises in the country. that s what i keep waiting to emerge. what do you think, george. we re exhausted from warness, war on poverty, wore on drugs. martial law means we get in line and obey orders. that s not the way we are
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