Taibbi on Mitt Romney as Preface to Video of Romney Speaking Privately to Wealthy Donors

Taibbi on Mitt Romney as Preface to Video of Romney Speaking Privately to Wealthy Donors

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I should preface this by saying that politics is a dirty business, given the ways of the world. And most politicians are not admirable creatures close up, especially the current crop in the Western world. That is just how the struggle for money and power goes these days. But the quality of public servant, like the tide of freedom, ebbs and flows.

I think this revelation about Romney is important not because of American politics per se, but rather that Mr. Romney is truly emblematic of the spirit of the financialization of American business culture for the past thirty years.

He is the embodiment of Gordon Gekko. And a number of people will resonate to his message. It is an old story, might makes right, and the strong prey on the weak. We the fortunate have worked for what we have, and the unfortunate, after we are done with them, are a drag on us, a burden, losers, things which are to be ignored, used, and eventually eliminated.