“The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale also has the power to control the government to legalize their robbery,” – Eugene V Debs, American socialist, 1918. Full speech here. As Weintraub notes,
Some details of how this works have changed between then and now, but the basic insight remains all too timely.
How corrupt has capitalism become that I’m quoting a fucking socialist and not entirely rolling my eyes?
The Dish 