In
Iceland, the bankers responsible for the financial melt-down there went to
prison. This did a great deal to restore faith in the integrity of the system.
Not sending bankers to prison for white-collar crimes that destroy the lives of
real people is the best possible way to make sure that both the bankers involved
and their colleagues and the people whose lives they destroyed and other
ordinary citizens like them understand that America is run by a wall street
mafia as much as Sicily was run by the Sicilian mafia in the worst of the bad
old days. Even in a country where voter suppression is openly practiced and prideful
admitted, even in a country where gerrymandered districts give a Republican
Party that received a minority of the votes in house races nationwide more
seats (233) than the party that received the majority of votes (201), many,
many more of the people who actually cast ballots are victims of white-collar
crime or their loved ones than are white-collar criminals. Why would Jews vote
for Nazis? Why would slaves vote against their own emancipation? Why is there a
single Republican left serving in office anywhere in America?
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