School Shooting, Contempt for Religion, Universal Healthcare, GOP Debts

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Jay lead off the show with Mike arguing that in the aftermath of tragic events, like the recent school shooting in Florida, we're far too quick to rush to judgment and far too eager to believe that incompetence or malfeasance is the cause. He argues that we should look to institutional structures, incentives, and resources which are, in his view, more commonly at fault. After that, Mike and Jay answer listener questions about whether liberals like Susan Jacoby ([who Mike recently interviewed on the show](http://politicsguys.com/the-age-of-american-unreason-in-a-culture-of-lies/)) are contemptuous of religion, their positions on universal healthcare, if Mike should be more aggressive, if Jay's carrying water for the Trump administration, and whether the nation debt is more the fault of Republicans than Democrats. **Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible.** If you’re interested in supporting the show, go to [politicsguys.com/support](http://www.politicsguys.com/support).Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:26.2	Hey, Jay, how are you doing this morning?
0:27.9	I'm doing good. How about you?
0:32.5	I am doing just fine, so are you ready to get to some listener questions, comments,
0:34.5	critiques, rants, all that kind of stuff?
0:36.1	Absolutely. Absolutely. Hear from the people.
0:39.1	You know, before we do, just a couple of quick administrative things.
0:45.1	If you haven't yet taken the short and simple seven question, all optional politics guys survey, we'd really appreciate it if you could.
0:47.8	It's going to help us, you know, expand the show, make it better, more of the stuff you like,
0:52.4	less of the stuff you don't.
0:53.6	And you can find it just by going to politicsguise.com. It should be the top link there, so real easy to
0:59.6	see. Also, you know, there was one question in the survey, Jay, this happens all the time. I've done
1:04.5	a lot of surveys, but there's almost always one or two questions that after the surveys out, gosh, I wish I would have thought to include
1:11.2	that, and sure enough, that happened this time too. So the question is this. I listen to a lot of
1:18.5	podcasts, and I've actually stopped listening to a few podcasts, not because I didn't like the
1:24.7	content, but because there was something one of the hosts did that just was
1:30.2	a verbal tick, that sort of thing, that just annoyed me so much. I said, I just can't do it anymore.
1:36.2	And I'm betting that if I hear that with other podcasts, there are probably some folks who might
1:41.7	hear that with us. We're not certainly absolutely perfectly polished.
1:47.3	Doubtful, but, you know, kind of the, I thought of it.
1:50.8	I was saying, Jay, it was sort of the podcast equivalent of having food in your teeth.
1:54.8	And you really want someone to tell you, but almost nobody does.
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