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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (193736)7/13/2012 7:21:09 PM
From: Metacomet  Read Replies (2) of 541059
 
Seems to me the takeaway will be whether the skills to skirt the law, push the envelope of legality, lie cheat and sometimes steal, you know corporate skills, and in so doing create obscene wealth for yourself, are what Americans admire so much that they will elect a Gordon Gecko clone for president

If we as a nation are that jaded, and impressed by one who can always get more out of an enterprise than what is put in, the definition of profit; and seriously believe that such abilities can be marshaled to advantage in somehow running a nation for the benefit of all its members, we deserve to be on the downside of history

That, coupled with the Citizens United travesty, demonstrates a level of national acceptance of corruption that is startling and is unsustainable

Not everyone can be a successful pig, and we will certainly destroy our country if we continue to tolerate and enable those whose ethics favor such behaviour
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