{"id":204,"date":"2009-03-27T15:31:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T15:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2009\/03\/insights-on-our-economic-crisis.html"},"modified":"2009-03-27T15:31:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T15:31:28","slug":"insights-on-our-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2009\/03\/insights-on-our-economic-crisis.html","title":{"rendered":"Insights on Our Economic Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glen Greenwald over at Salon has an important post<\/a>  for anyone interested in understanding our economic crisis, and the shortcomings even Democrats have in dealing with it.  George Bush treated this country like a banana republic.  But Argentina might be a better example today.<\/p>\n

 Over the years Greenwald has been one of the most reasonable voices in analyzing the crimes of the Bush regime against the constitution and ordinary citizens.  He is proving refreshingly nonpartisan in has analysis, and I hope those of my readers interested in current events will go take a look.  <\/p>\n

His updates are often some of the high points in his pieces, don’t skip them!<\/p>\n

I have thought for years that Washington, DC has turned into our Versailles, dominated by people who genuinely think they are better than average Americans, and that we owe them our deference and respect. This would be a tragedy for democracy under any circumstances.  But given the awesome incompetence and even venality of a great many of the leading members of our political, economic, and journalistic class, it is a sign of a establishment mentally and morally rotten to its core.  The Republicans are utterly a lost cause.  It is only by challenging their most servile servants in Democratic primaries, from Feinstein to Reid to Pryor to Bayh, do we have any chance at all of setting this country on a decent course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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