John Bogle is famous because he founded one of the world's biggest and most successful mutual fund groups, Vanguard. I don't know if he's a Democrat or a Republican but I see he's contributed to politicians from both parties-- to Democrats Joe Sestak and Ed Markey and to Republicans Rick Santorum and John McCain.
The fascist cadres surrounding Trump-- from politicians like Mike Pence, Steve Bannon and Jeff Sessions to predatory billionaires like Betsy DeVos, Steve Mnuchin, Robert Mercer, the Kochs and Wilbur Ross-- are attacking the American core on so many fronts that its unimaginable that congressional Democrats-- led in the Senate by a severely compromised Chuck Schumer and in the
Perhaps you were angry that Obama's Justice Department never went after Wall Street elites. I sure was. Last year David Sirota did a powerful piece for International Business Times about how prosecution for white collar crimes was at a 20-year low-- although not because there was less of that kind of crime.
As we get closer to November, we've been spending more time warning readers about the consequences of electing Blue Dogs and New Dems-- the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- to Congress.
click on the image to understand who really wants to protect us from Wall StreetYesterday, one of the Trump campaign murky higher-ups, Paul Manafort, claimed that the Republican platform will advocate bringing back Glass-Steagall, which will, he said, "create barriers between what the big banks can do and try and avoid some of the crisis that led to 2008." Although corrupt corporate Democrats-- primarily Bill Clinton and
Ahoy, Matey-- Patrick's gold-trimmed pirate hat courtesy of Bergdorf GoodmanSo how does this upbringing and this lifestyle manifest itself in the day to day life of a startlingly unqualified congressman who bought a House seat and now, with the help of a thoroughly corrupted and rotted out Democratic Establishment, thinks he is entitled to buy himself
