> ...the deeper explanation, still taboo, is the perception that the Obama administration’s handling of the 2008 crash was both corrupt and profoundly disillusi

> ...the deeper explanation, still taboo, is the perception that the Obama administration’s handling of the 2008 crash was both corrupt and profoundly disillusioning. Is this true? At least partially true? As in "also true". My impression of today's average voter is a general purpose anger towards power and institutions. Are "low information" voters specifically blaming Obama, or Bush, or whomever? -- I haven't read Taibbi for a long time. It just becomes too much. Ditto Chris Hayes, Ralph Nader, Mike Malice, Mark Crispin Miller, Greg Palast, Bill Maher, and so many others. Ya, ya, ya, we know everything's fscked. Now please skip to the money shot: How do we fix things? I'm fine with criticizing Obama, DC, Wall St, whomever. Power corrupts, establishment hierarchy sucks, humans are fallible. But at some point, it'd be helpful to make suggestions, convert some of that outrage into (constructive) action. -- But two omissions continue to bug me with all these "enlightened centrist" criticisms. First: you know, everyone else has agency too. Obama and the Clintons and the Democrats aren't operating in a vacuum. Second: per the Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics, why blame the people who are trying to do some good more than the people who are actively making things worse? Few people go to work every day to do a bad job. Obama Admin made plenty of mistakes. But they also prevented a complete collapse. Overcoming a great deal of opposition to make it happen. "The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it. At the very least, you are to blame for not doing more. Even if you don’t make the problem worse, even if you make it slightly better, the ethical burden of the problem falls on you as soon as you observe it. In particular, if you interact with a problem and benefit from it, you are a complete monster. I don’t subscribe to this school of thought, but it seems pretty popular." https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethics/ https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...