“History is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and women. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions, have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively tiny oligarchy of extremely clever financial criminals and their castrato henchmen in government, whose job is to be actors on TV and put on a good show.”
Matt Taibbi, Griftopia
Matt taibbi ,most of the time I dislike this liberal nut but sometimes he gets it right.