“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express concerns 'privately with the administration.' That's just a small sliver of Johnson's radicalism: replacing Feingold in the Senate with Ron Johnson would be a civil liberties travesty analogous to the economic travesty from, say, replacing Bernie Sanders with Lloyd Blankfein.” WarPoliticsDemocracyEconomicsConservatismRight WingCivil LibertiesRadicalism2010Bernie SandersUnited States SenateUnited States Elections 2010Lloyd BlankfeinRon JohnsonRuss FeingoldUs Senate Wisconsin 2010 Author:Glenn Greenwald
“People aren't pissed just to be pissed. They're mad because a tiny group of crooks on Wall Street built themselves beach houses in the Hamptons through a crude fraud scheme that decimated their retirement funds, caused property values in their neighborhoods to collapse and caused over four million people to be put in foreclosure.” AngryFraudCriminalBanksWall StreetGoldman SachsWhite Collar CrimeAngry PeopleBankstersMortgage CrisisBailoutSubprime Mortgage LoansSubprime Mortgage CrisisBanksterVampire SquidWhite Collar Criminal2008 Economic ImplosionLloyd BlankfeinRolling Stone MagazineWall Street Bailout Author:Matt Taibbi