Princeps
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McMorons and tons are McCains and metric tons respectively throughout this post.
So now that we've seen McMoron's pathetic incompetence, ignorance, unscrupulous lies and generally unpopular positions, why would anyone vote for him?
When he talked about the Wall Street and this financial crisis, he told how the Wall Street had violated some supposed "social contract" between the citizen and capitalism as stipulated by.. Adam Smith. Funny, I thought Adam Smith explained how the agents involved in the market do not act for the good of society, but for their own self-interest. The baker sells his stuff so he can make a living, not out of charity or some common agreement.
But the point is that McMoron, having been a fanatical proponent of deregulation for Wall Street, believes that there's some sort magical, imaginary "social contract" between the American commoner and the Wall Street. As if the secretive, totalitarian, profit-driven institutions which dominate business should be expected to follow this tacit contract. What sort of contract is it? Where is it written down? Who enforces it? No one. But McMoron apparently believed that you can replace sound regulations with blind faith in some imaginary "social contract". So when McMoron rails against the "greed and corruption" of Wall Street, doesn't that imply that he really cannot understand the basic nature of these institutions, which have to be greedy because that's demanded of them by law.
Futhermore, "Obama has been talking about the need for better financial regulation well before this crisis hit and has done some real thinking about it,'' says Donaldson, a lifelong Republican. "McCain comes across as someone who suddenly realized changes have to be made.''
And, yes, I could go on about his flip-flops, of which there are a ton.
But anyway, the question is, why do some people vote for McCain?
So now that we've seen McMoron's pathetic incompetence, ignorance, unscrupulous lies and generally unpopular positions, why would anyone vote for him?
When he talked about the Wall Street and this financial crisis, he told how the Wall Street had violated some supposed "social contract" between the citizen and capitalism as stipulated by.. Adam Smith. Funny, I thought Adam Smith explained how the agents involved in the market do not act for the good of society, but for their own self-interest. The baker sells his stuff so he can make a living, not out of charity or some common agreement.
But the point is that McMoron, having been a fanatical proponent of deregulation for Wall Street, believes that there's some sort magical, imaginary "social contract" between the American commoner and the Wall Street. As if the secretive, totalitarian, profit-driven institutions which dominate business should be expected to follow this tacit contract. What sort of contract is it? Where is it written down? Who enforces it? No one. But McMoron apparently believed that you can replace sound regulations with blind faith in some imaginary "social contract". So when McMoron rails against the "greed and corruption" of Wall Street, doesn't that imply that he really cannot understand the basic nature of these institutions, which have to be greedy because that's demanded of them by law.
Futhermore, "Obama has been talking about the need for better financial regulation well before this crisis hit and has done some real thinking about it,'' says Donaldson, a lifelong Republican. "McCain comes across as someone who suddenly realized changes have to be made.''
And, yes, I could go on about his flip-flops, of which there are a ton.
But anyway, the question is, why do some people vote for McCain?
