"We bring social workers into homes and parents to help them deal with how to raise their children. It's not want they don't want to help. They don't — they don't know quite what to do. Play the radio, make sure the television — excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the, the — make sure that kids hear words. A kid coming from a very poor school, a very poor background will hear 4 million words fewer spoken by the time they get there."
Record players are considered almost antiques at this point, so Joe was considered out of touch.
I did get that of course.
I hadn't heard about Joe saying it though.
Anyway, being "out of touch" is an extremely bad thing when it's true of a Republican (as when George Bush supposedly was unfamiliar with a supermarket scanner).
When a Democrat is "out of touch," it's something to be ignored or laughed off.
Ah, so Biden calls for government agents to ensure a constant train of Communist propaganda noise around infants and toddlers at night. In the ever vanishing parts of conservative America, we tend to turn off the stupid sounds and let our children listen to crickets and cicadas at night. We never intentionally feed them Communist propaganda until they reach an age and maturity at which we can teach them effectively to reject it almost reflexively.