Quote Originally Posted by Detroitnerd View Post
Well, we have to get back to prosecuting white-collar crime, because it's behind so many of these problems. Or we can let criminal banks and bond raiders destroy our governments one by one and bankrupt our people. Fundamentally, the political dominance of financial interests is the problem at hand. And financial capital needs to be constrained or it will continue to be a destructive force. That's where we're throwing good money after bad: Cleaning up after irresponsible financial firms instead of reining them in.
Oh, I agree completely; I'm not saying it's a good thing that nobody prosecutes any of this, I'm just stating a fact.

This is the sort of problem that would have enthusiastically been taken up by left-wing politicians, back when there were any left-wing politicians. Someone whose politics leans toward Eisenhower or Nixon would be considered too socialist, by the standards of today, to be a Democratic nominee for President.