“This Is a Great Nation, and We are a Good People”: President Joe Biden’s Inaugural Address and Attitude of Empathy

IF 0.6 Q3 COMMUNICATION Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-01-23 DOI:10.1080/1041794X.2022.2030788
Thomas A. Salek
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ABSTRACT In the middle of a global pandemic, days after an attempted insurrection, and in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s tenure in the White House, President Biden spoke of his desire to restore the soul of America in his inaugural address. I argue that Biden’s address rhetorically constituted a civic attitude of empathy by speaking of values that unite Americans, as well as rejecting the anti-deliberative rhetoric of former President Trump. To model a civic attitude of empathy, Biden embraced five shared values: 1) American democratic principles of goodwill, 2) the respect for dissent, 3) focusing on the future, 4) neighborliness to one’s fellow citizen, and 5) the rejection of resentment and intransigence. An attitudinal shift may be a long-term project, but Biden’s speech modeled how Americans could ideally begin to engage in future ethical deliberation at a time when citizens could not even agree on basic facts.
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“这是一个伟大的国家,我们是一个好人”:乔·拜登总统的就职演说和同情的态度
在一场全球大流行的中期,在一场未遂叛乱的几天后,在唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)的白宫任期结束后,拜登总统在就职演说中谈到了他希望恢复美国灵魂的愿望。我认为,拜登的演讲在修辞上构成了一种同理心的公民态度,他谈到了团结美国人的价值观,并拒绝了前总统特朗普的反协商言论。为了树立一种具有同理心的公民态度,拜登接受了五项共同价值观:1)善意的美国民主原则;2)尊重异议;3)着眼于未来;4)与同胞和睦相处;5)拒绝怨恨和不妥协。态度的转变可能是一项长期工程,但拜登的演讲示范了在公民甚至无法就基本事实达成一致的情况下,美国人如何开始理想地参与未来的道德审议。
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