2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton opposes breaking up the megabanks, opposes reinstating Glass-Steagall [View all]ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...a sly way of calling them dissemblers, or at the very least demagogues.
You have a right to your opinion of course. Mine differs when it comes to both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren: I do not think that either one of them is misleading voters. I think that both of them are voicing strong convictions based on their very educated understanding of our present day economic system. And I do seek out information independently as well -- what they say is consistent with other information.
Some people see it as strictly a zero-sum game, with no moral element. But it is a human construct, and it certainly does have a moral element -- and when that human construct works counter to the welfare of the vast majority of the population, then the construct must be changed.
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