Elizabeth Warren on the election circuit in Massachusetts.
She left out any discussion of the financial bailouts, probably in the interest of simplicity and brevity. But she ought not to do so.
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"Seneca had made the bargain that many good men have made when agreeing to aid bad regimes. Their presence strengthens the regime and helps it endure. But their moral influence may also improve the regime's behavior or save the lives of its enemies. For many, this has been a bargain worth making, even if it has cost them their immortal soul. The Rome he has been trained to serve, of Augustus and Germanicus, was gone. In its place stood Neropolis, ruled by a megalomaniac brat.” James Romm