“Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks, if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself!’ - Herman Cain, 2011. It’s upsetting, I know. How much of that Horatio Alger Koolaid has Cain been imbibing? I suppose his guff is just the logical end of the bootstraps mythology, the underbelly of the American Dream (plus unerring faith in the markets*). Here’s some antivenom taking an unlikely form: couple MLK with Mike Tyson.
*Markets - devilish anxious of late; always appeased by abuses of democracy; our international sovereign
