> I'm not a libertarian.
I never said you were! I've been scratching my head since last October about how the notion of "letting them fail" might be a pathway to a Leftwing position, but haven't succeeded. Maybe it could provide a jumping-off point for a conversation about the ways US capitalism is a catastrophic economic, geopolitical and human failure, even in relation to other (Euro/Asian/developmental-state) capitalisms.
> An
> administration willing to confront the discredited Republicans and Wall
> Street could have closed
> down the insolvent banks and restructured the industry,
Very true.
-- DRR