columnist and host of the david sirota radio show on am seven sixty colorado's progress dog as well as the author of numerous books including his most recent back to our future of the nineteen eighties explain the world we live in our culture our politics our everything david welcome. great to have you here with us republicans are slashing financial watchdog budgets how do they get away with it. well this is a longstanding part of republican ideology i mean they are throwing under the guise of cutting big government they are throwing everything that they defy specifically with big government and of course nothing that actually is what we might conventionally government so it's important to put this into context there are republican party today is not interested in for instance cutting defense spending it's not interested in the medicare system for all it would end taxpayer subsidies ation of the private health insurance industry it is as you suggest interested in cutting the parts of government here and specifically its financial donors to not like like the consumer financial protec

getting away with it and how long is this kind of thing going on joining me to discuss that is david sirota radio host and best selling author of the book back to our future how the one nine hundred eighty s. explain the world we live in now david always nice to have you on the show and i think we've all seen a lot of those ridiculous ads coming from our armed forces that really glorify what it is to be a member of the armed forces to go into war but you think of this crosses a new line where suddenly they throw fictional mutants into the mix. well you're right to say this is a bigger story it is a longer story the military has been advertising and using pop culture icons advertised for really for years i mean there was an ad back in two thousand and five people may remember it it looks like they were the greats the marine fighting the dragon now we've got we had after that we had in movie previews we had to have a military. war that like a video game and some might argue that a drone warfare is a bit of a game which is also syria itself but now we're getting to a situation where the milita

now on booktv, david sirota examines the cultural landscape of the 1980s arguing the social and political mores set the stage for the military is a canned narcissistic america. it is about an hour and a half. >> thank you. can everyone here me? here's how it is going to work tonight. thank you for being here. i am going to give a presentation about my new book "back to our future" which you can see right there. nathan and i will go back and forth on a few questions. i asked nathan to be here because some of his work has been an inspiration for some of my work so i appreciate you being here. and we will take questions from the audience but before we begin i want to do my own thank you. i want to thank "in these times" for organizing this at the university of illinois of chicago for hosting us here. i want to thank c-span booktv for covering this event and i want to thank nathan and all of you for being here and being interested in this book. the name of the book is "back to our future," how the 1980s explain the world we live in now. to make this fun i have included a trivia question, triv

. >> now on booktv david sirota examines the political and cultural landscape of the 1980s. he argues that the social and political mores of that time set the stage for what it calls a militaristic and narcissistic america. it is about an hour and a half. [applause] >> thank you. can everyone hear me? here is how it is going to work tonight. first of all thank you everybody for being here. i will just tell you how does going to work. i'm going to give a presentation about my new book, "back to our future" which you can see right there and then nathan and i are going to sort of go back and forth on some questions and the aston nathan to be here because some of his work is an inspiration for some of my work. so i really appreciate you being here. and then we are going to take questions from the audience. but before we begin i just want to do some of my own thank yous. i want to thanking these timed -- in these times for organizing this event and the university of illinois chicago for hosting us here. i want to thank c-span booktv for covering this event. i opposite want to tha