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In reply to the discussion: Glenn Greenwald, journalist who helped Edward Snowden expose NSA spying, once was a lawyer who owed [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)"What's to like?"
He does come across as a mean, selfish, angry poseur. His long association with the CATO Institute--and his weaselly (and inaccurate) downplaying of that association, is what did it for me. As I learned about his attitudes towards things, like the social safety net, that Democrats hold dear, I am, to use a term popular across the pond, right gobsmacked that people here put on their GiGi sweaters and wave the GiGi pom-poms for the guy. Being "anti-war" isn't enough--that's another one of those issues that crosses party lines. This asshole doesn't like the government, unless the government can do things that HE wants. That's a selfish attitude, at best.
Your last paragraph is spot on. What goes around comes around!