{"id":2456108,"date":"2025-07-06T15:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/division-over-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-is-case-of-chicken-little-ken-burns\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T19:02:00","slug":"division-over-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-is-case-of-chicken-little-ken-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/division-over-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-is-case-of-chicken-little-ken-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"Division over One Big Beautiful Bill Act is case of &#8216;chicken little&#8217;: Ken Burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdivision-over-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-is-case-of-chicken-little-ken-burns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2456108&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Documentary historian Ken Burns addressed the topic of political division in the United States, suggesting that such divisions are not new and have been a recurring theme throughout American history. He pointed out that important legislative efforts and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-twitter-files-reveal-big-techs-unholy-alliance-with-the-feds-exists-to-control-you\/\" title=\"The \u2018Twitter Files\u2019 Reveal Big Tech\u2019s Unholy Alliance With The Feds Exists To Control You\">major political events<\/a>, such as Franklin Roosevelt&#8217;s new Deal and the Civil War, faced considerable opposition. Burns emphasized that the current divide, exacerbated by controversies surrounding President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;One Big Lovely Bill Act&#8221; and immigration policies, recalls historical patterns of political dissent.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview on CBS&#8217;s &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; Burns expressed a sense of optimism, noting that past political turmoil has always had ebb and flow. He highlighted the importance of understanding the enduring nature of political disagreements, referring to the Founding Fathers and the American Revolution as historical context for contemporary discussions. Burns called for a renewed focus on the greater narrative of American history and collective storytelling, which he believes can foster a sense of connection and patriotism. His <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >upcoming documentary series<\/a>, &#8220;The American Revolution,&#8221; aims to explore these themes and will begin airing on PBS on November 16.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Division over One Big Beautiful Bill Act is case of &lsquo;chicken little&rsquo;: Documentary historian Ken Burns<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2165378\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Documentary historian Ken Burns pushed back against the idea that political division is increasing in the nation, suggesting &ldquo;big differences&rdquo; have occurred throughout the history of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the current political division in the nation stems from opposition to President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3463738\/trump-major-disaster-declaration-aid-texas-floods-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a>&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/editorials\/3461468\/an-economy-to-celebrate-this-holiday-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">One Big Beautiful Bill Act<\/a>, as well as Democratic lawmakers speaking out against the administration&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3462911\/supreme-court-backs-trump-bid-to-deport-criminals-to-south-sudan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">deportation<\/a> of illegal immigrants. Burns, however, contended that major U.S. political events and legislative efforts have always experienced a level of pushback.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3463733\/joy-reid-sounds-alarm-2026-election-integrity\/\">Joy Reid sounds alarm for 2026 election integrity: &#8216;It&#8217;s insane to assume&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3463724\/joaquin-castro-answers-missing-key-weather-personnel-texas-floods\/\">Texas Democrat seeks answers on &#8216;missing key&#8217; weather personnel as flood deaths rise<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3463738\/trump-major-disaster-declaration-aid-texas-floods-response\/\">Trump signs major disaster order in wake of &lsquo;unimaginable&rsquo; Texas floods<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;It ebbs and flows a little bit, but we&rsquo;ll always have big differences,&rdquo; Burns explained on CBS&rsquo;s <em>Face the Nation<\/em>. &ldquo;Franklin Roosevelt&rsquo;s New Deal is not met with universal approval, the Civil War killed 750,000 Americans, we think, over the issue of slavery. We have our own revolution. There are lots of periods, the Vietnam period when we&rsquo;re so particularly divided, so I think there&rsquo;s a little bit of &lsquo;chicken little: Oh, the sky&rsquo;s falling, because now things are always worse now than they ever were.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On how the current political divisions in the U.S. compare with the divisions during the revolutionary period, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KenBurns?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KenBurns<\/a> says, &#8220;We&#8217;re always divided, it ebbs and flows a little bit, but we always have big differences,&#8221; citing the controversy over the Vietnam War, the Civil War,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F5y39Bfljd\">pic.twitter.com\/F5y39Bfljd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaceTheNation\/status\/1941580614051774593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Burns went on to state that he and other historians feel &ldquo;a kind of optimism&rdquo; because the division in the country has a sense of familiarity, suggesting the American Revolution is &ldquo;the leverage&rdquo; to how people can speak to each other to settle differences. He noted how the Bible states, &ldquo;there&rsquo;s nothing new under the sun,&rdquo; adding that what makes the Revolution unique is how &ldquo;there was something new in the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On the topic of what it means to be patriotic, Burns suggested that some people have &ldquo;lost a kind of connection with the glories of the American experiment&rdquo; due to what they have witnessed. He contended people ought to spend more time working toward &ldquo;the pursuit of happiness&rdquo; through the telling of the nation&rsquo;s stories and through public service.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columnists\/3462848\/unsung-heroes-of-1775-revolutionary-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">1775 AND THE FORGOTTEN MAN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Asked about shifting views on the meaning of patriotism, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KenBurns?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KenBurns<\/a>  tells John Dickerson, &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter, Democrat, Republican, red state, blue state. These are superficial, binary considerations&hellip;That&#8217;s the tip of the iceberg, right? It&#8217;s the&hellip;massiveness of what&#8217;s&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CZSJwtxgOr\">pic.twitter.com\/CZSJwtxgOr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaceTheNation\/status\/1941610541002145976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Burns&rsquo;s current documentary project, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/magazine-life-arts\/3393481\/ken-burns-the-american-revolution-seeks-unite-americans-250-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em>The American Revolution<\/em><\/a>, is a 12-hour miniseries set to air across six parts on PBS for six consecutive nights, beginning Nov. 16.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The polling sometimes reflects just the particular anxiety, and these are shifting all the time, all the time!&rdquo; Burns said. &ldquo;And I can tell just in the time it&rsquo;s taken to work on this film how much things have changed and gone back and changed again, and it doesn&rsquo;t matter, Democrat, Republican, red state, blue state. These are superficial, binary considerations, that the more important thing is that&rsquo;s the tip of the iceberg, right? It&rsquo;s the massiveness of what&rsquo;s underneath it, and I think a lot of people still share it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2165378\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2165378\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Burns argues that political division is not new in the U.S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2456109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Ken-Burns-scaled-1024x682.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[58517,3931,41668,55712,5894],"class_list":["post-2456108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-chicken-little","tag-division","tag-ken-burns","tag-one-big-beautiful-bill","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Ken-Burns-scaled-1024x682.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456112,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456108\/revisions\/2456112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2456109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}