Is Elizabeth Warren the Only Person Standing Between You and Total Bank Domination?

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http://www.alternet.org/economy/elizabeth-warren-only-person-standing-between-you-and-total-bank-domination


Photo Credit: By U.S. Treasury Department (Women in Finance Symposium, 03/29/2010) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

There’s really a storybook quality to Elizabeth Warren. How did this cookie-baking housewife from Oklahoma end up staring down the most powerful financial powers on Planet Earth, causing them to tremble in their wingtip shoes?

Seemingly conjured up from the fabled town of Mayberry, a place of bake sales and heart-to-hearts with Aunt Bea (she actually had an Aunt Bea), Sen. Warren seems aware of her mythic dimension: at one point in her new memoir, A Fighting Chance, she refers to herself as “Alice in Crazyland.” As Alice/Elizabeth heads down the rabbit hole to navigate the money-papered halls of Washington, she uses words like “vile” and “shameful” to describe the evildoing of bankers and corporate predators: she’s an outsider from a realm of truer American values who looks upon the upside-down goings on with outraged astonishment, frequently peppering her narrative with her favorite term for disbelief at human folly, an emphatic, “ Really?!?” This Alice among the evil wizards of Wall Street is full of homespun charm and Midwestern wisdom, but in this cynical age, the truly fabulous thing is that her story is true.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren really did grow up among ordinary, struggling people in Oklahoma, and she really did try her very best to content herself with baking brownies and tending her young family before deciding to go to law school. She really did become a crack expert in bankruptcy law and a Harvard professor, and used what she’d learned to challenge the bankers who spent billions purchasing their own facts and unleashing armies of lobbyists to make victims of hard-working, law-abiding Americans.

You get the feeling that Warren's fight against these financial predators is deeply personal. And from her memoir, you can see why: she’s fighting for the people who raised her, the neighbors she grew up among, the students in her classes, and the people she has met along the way who have lost their homes, jobs and savings through the deliberate traps set by people who measure their income in human suffering.

[GoneFishin]

1. I think she is a sign to all of us who wonder why TF banksters can break any

law, including anti-terrorism and Patriot Act laws and they skate every time. I think she is a sign that we are not crazy, and that our outrage is justified.

[woo me with science]

2. A reality check

against the incessant drone of the corporate voices telling us "2 + 2 = 5," "The chocolate ration has been increased," "War is Peace, Freedom is Surveillance, Ignorance is Strength."

Well said.

[woo me with science]

3. Not the ONLY one, but thank you, Elizabeth Warren.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. She seems to be the biggest nail on their road to complete takeover. nt

[madokie]

5. I think Bernie is on our side too

Theres a few more Democratic congress critters that are, Whitehouse, Brown to name a couple.