Politics & Culture (Show 079)

First, a few updates on talkObjectivism: After being a regular guest on the talkObjectivism podcast for so long, Arthur is now going to be the co-host. His contributions are greatly appreciated.

Also, Mosley recently updated the website to the latest version of WordPress, which should help with some of the previous issues we were having, and Brandon will now be writing the show notes regularly, in a different format.

For those wondering what happened to last week’s show, Show 078, there was no show because the TalkShoe service was unavailable at the time.

Now for the show notes: The topic of Show 079 stems from the recent “bail-out bill” that passed in Congress, leading Mosley and Arthur to discuss today’s politics and culture, and its outlook for the future.

Topics include: Democrats blame today’s economic problems on the free-market, calling for more regulation; Republicans fail to defend the free-market and conceed that “greed” is evil; “capitalism” and “the free-market” as just buzz-words to Republicans; what Republicans stand for: religiosity; Republicans offer the wrong values, whereas the Democrats offer none; is it best to vote for the Democrats? Republicans? anyone at all?; the real battleground: the dominant cultural ideas, not immediate political gains; Obama as anti-American and his potential effect on the culture; the process and progress of cultural change.