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In reply to the discussion: Glenn Greenwald ain't no Libertarian, Part 2: Wall Street [View all]joshcryer
(62,536 posts)Those are the only opinions held by Greenwald that cannot be consistent with Libertarianism.
"repeatedly calling for the prosecution of Wall Street" - explained above, Libertarians prosecute bankers who make bad faith loans and who screw over their clients
"advocating for robust public financing" - he supports Citizens United so he is a liar, but combining the two this is perfectly in line with Libertarians, because they would think PACs would make great competition to public financing
"condemning income and wealth inequality as the by-product of corruption" - sure, Libertarians believe laissez-faire capitalism is immune from real corruption (though it is objectively the most corrupt system possible)
"attacking oligarchs" - lol he works for one...
"arguing in favor of a public option for health care reform" - again the privatizing people believe their system is the best, and therefore nothing can compete with it, so a public option would be fine
"criticizing the appointment of too many Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street officials to positions of power" - sure, that's government corruption and cronyism, just really a repeat, it's "government protectionism"