Joe Biden’s Big “Save the Soul of the Nation” Speech
BY PAUL STREET
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Some Serious Soul-foolishness
Joe Biden’s big speech last week to save the nation’s soul from the “MAGA Republicans” was (of course) deeply flawed.
His reference to the United States as “the greatest nation on Earth” has long been contradicted by a giant mass of data on US inequality, poverty, health, violence, incarceration, and much more.
His reference to the United States as a democracy, the greatest in the world, is belied by an empirical literature showing that majority public opinion is trumped by concentrated wealth and power on one issue after another.
His notion that the MAGATs’ “not normal” authoritarianism violates the nation’s “democratic” “soul” flies in the face of what we...










