pre-existing condition. when he says he s fighting for the texans, a lot of the texans he s fighting against. people who are benefitting or will benefit from obama care. but yet he goes on as he said last week, premiums across the country are going up for everybody. it s just not true. you know, you can make policy arguments, libertarian arguments, ayn rand type arguments, and we ll see how well things work a year from now. but he s out there with rhetoric that is just has no basis in reality. and for his side, it doesn t matter. well, i think you re all right. i have no idea of his religious beliefs, but his political beliefs are clear. challenging everything in america saying i m rallying against the people back in texas. it s interesting you point out the fact he doesn t see himself as a u.s. senator but a texas senator. thank you. by the way, the right wing of
here and a contributing editor of the new republic. author of to save everything, click here. what is technological solutionism and why have you been so critical of some of the policy arguments and promises of heeders of google and other technology companies? sure. well, several things have changed in the last several years. now you can build sensors into virtually everything. we have smart forks, we have smart shoes, we have smart, you know, brushes for brushing our teeth. you can now build smart objects that will modify our behavior in new ways. that has triggers. silicon valley, little companies now present themselves as being in the business or solving some of these very important social
do you want to give people those freedoms? are you free free to text? are you free to text while you re driving with your hands off the wheel? that would be nice. are you free not to pay taxes? once you have government, you re talking about imposing a certain set of obligations on people, but that is the essence of society and civilization. no one is totally free. let s go back to this as a tactic, you first. a tactic. is this a desperate last tactic when obama discover that say people aren t afraid of him, they re used to the first african-american president. they realize he s center left, not some hard lefty, he s somewhere on the democratic mainstream. do they have to use this and will it work or is this just a desperate, we can t think of anything else to say? i feel like after this they re left arguing for liberty. we re all for liberty. we are all are, we re for freedom. they can t demonize obama anymore. they tried that for five years. they can t win on the policy
but that is the essence of society and civilization. no one is totally free. let s go back to this as a tactic, you first. a tactic. is this a desperate last tactic when obama discover that say people aren t afraid of him, they re used to the first african-american president. they realize he s center left, not some hard lefty, he s somewhere on the democratic mainstream. do they have to use this and will it work or is this just a desperate, we can t think of anything else to say? i feel like after this they re left arguing for liberty. we re all for liberty. we are all are, we re for freedom. they can t demonize obama anymore. they tried that for five years. they can t win on the policy arguments so they re left with what reverend al calls a political staungunt. i d like a debate between mcconnell and reverend al sharpton on this network. he d outthink and outtalk this
think is that the assault weapons ban doesn t poll as well. it is a slim majority of the assemble that favors the banning and also policy arguments seen as having not been particularly effective the last time we had one. that may have been how that reg sla slagz is written. the 5% of the gun murders that occurred in 2011, i believe, were from rifles. 95% from hand guns. something like background checks that impacts hand guns has a much better chance of having an effect on gun violence. background checks are wildly popular with the public as well. 90%. this is our show s low read of the week.