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DirkGently
DirkGently's Journal
DirkGently's Journal
November 2, 2013
that we could massage and empower the largest monied interests in a way that wouldn't hurt everyone. Rising stock market floats all boats, if you will.
But a rising stock market isn't enough. They have to game the system. Inflate bubbles, burst them, rush in to pick up the pieces. Fend off all regulation. Abscond with the social safety net.
We can be friends with those interests once they get back behind the walls liberals built to contain their worst impulses in the first place.
The Clintons seemed to bite on the notion
that we could massage and empower the largest monied interests in a way that wouldn't hurt everyone. Rising stock market floats all boats, if you will.
But a rising stock market isn't enough. They have to game the system. Inflate bubbles, burst them, rush in to pick up the pieces. Fend off all regulation. Abscond with the social safety net.
We can be friends with those interests once they get back behind the walls liberals built to contain their worst impulses in the first place.
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