Next, the discussion about the criteria u. S. Voters are using to pick a president ial candidate. From washington journal, this is just under one hour. Rick shenkman is the History News Network founder and author of political animals how our stoneage brain gets in the way of smart politics. Henkman, do shark attacks affect elections . Guest 100 years ago in 1916, the worst fear of shark attacks struck southern new jersey. That everyones had seen was based on the story of what happened then. Weeks, four people were killed in shark attacks. What does that have to do with politics . Woodrow wilson was up for reelection. But in thejersey, small beach towns devastated by the shark attacks, people heard shark and everyone went home. He was a devastating Economic Development for that area. , the peoplee vote in those towns voted against Woodrow Wilson in overwhelming numbers. In the same proportion that those people voted against Herbert Hoover at the height of the great depression. Why . Woo
You can see the lines they are on the screen. You can make a comment through social media. This is the inside page of usa today. York times onw the front page. Politico this morning, clinton and sanders for all in the brooklyn. They engaged in their most vicious debate yet. They delivered a two hour shouting match. Street,wled over wall tons, racism, the minimum wage, and fitness for the white house. Here is a little bit more of the debate. Secretary clinton have the experience to be president . Of course she does. Question her judgment. That voteda judgment for the war in iraq. The worst foreignpolicy blunder in the history of this country. Voted for every disastrous trade agreement that cost us millions of decent paying jobs. I question her judgment about running super pacs that are collecting tens of millions of dollars from special interests, including 15 million from wall street. Thats thebelieve kind of judgment we need to be the kind of president we need. That now the spotlight
Author of political animals how our stoneage brain gets in the way of smart politics. Henkman, do shark attacks affect elections . Guest 100 years ago in 1916, the worst fear of shark attacks struck southern new jersey. That everyones had seen was based on the story of what happened then. Weeks, four people were killed in shark attacks. What does that have to do with politics . Woodrow wilson was up for reelection. But in thejersey, small beach towns devastated by the shark attacks, people heard shark and everyone went home. He was a devastating Economic Development for that area. , the peoplee vote in those towns voted against Woodrow Wilson in overwhelming numbers. In the same proportion that those people voted against Herbert Hoover at the height of the great depression. Why . Woodrow wilson could not have done anything to help those people solve their shark problem. That was beyond the powers of the president. People are irrational when they vote. Particularly, political scientists
Way that i answered the previous question. In our history of our bilateral relations with the u. S. , there were moments when we worked closely side by side and we had very good results, both bilaterally and internationally. Today we also have successful cases of such cooperation and collaboration. Ranging from countering terrorism, addressing the Iranian Nuclear issue, the Syrian Chemical Weapons combating terrorism in general, and there are many other examples. But our counterparts, like i said, its not really about the specific leaders in the United States, but its about the false premise of their ex clues ivity, of their special status that they presume and some special rights that they think they have. This is a basic mistake. We should look at the bottom line and they should not proceed from the premise of the imperial ambition and from a position of power. They must show respect in treating all of their international partners, including russia, without that a political relations
Kinds of things go, because fear makes you act rashly and what happened was that the fear was played upon, and prison was presented, and mass incarceration was presented as the opt way to deal with crime, and we know that there is no correlation between the drop in crime rates and the rise in mass incarceration. Study after study has shown this. We know there are other routes. It did not have to be this route towards mass incarceration. Host were in california, the home of the strikes and your out. That has been effective in any way . Guest hardly. Californias tree strikes and your another, we have the rock fell are drug laws in new york, a whole host of other tough sentencing laws that have landed, again, millions of people in jails and prisons and under correctional supervision, draining our resources and draining us of the value of these human beings, who could be contributing to society in all kinds of ways. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. A History New