Matt Will
Matt Will
meaningful country party
In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will take our country back from everyone they disapprove of. But what they dont realize is, theres a catch: This is America, and we have an entrenched oligarchical system in place that insulates us all from any meaningful political change.
cheating wall hate
Critics say the OWS protesters hate the rich. Come on! Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans love winners. But that's just the problem. These guys on Wall Street are not winning - they're cheating. And as much as we love the self-made success story, we hate the cheater that much more.
art educational east
I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.
growing-up kids hard-work
I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.
ideas rights hypocrisy
People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.
gambling fancy profit
'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.
views hands law
It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and success on the other.
party people tea
The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.
party mean thinking
I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.
america russia insane
Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.
war stupid law
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
cutting organization giving
The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.
dream winning play
The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?
wall thinking government
There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.