> What bothers me [isn't] that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. What bothers me is that fraud stopped being taboo. People started to revel in it, to b

> What bothers me [isn't] that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. What bothers me is that fraud stopped being taboo. People started to revel in it, to brag, and--to the detriment of America--promote and vote-for braggarts of fraud. > When the hell did we forget all that? It started to become venerated as a sign of power: "Look at me, I blatantly did X and evaded the expected consequences, therefore I must be doing something worth allying with." A kind of self-reinforcing bubble, like "too big to fail", except "too smart/crooked to get punished".