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Payday loans put a staggering amount of Americans in debt. They prey on the elderly and military service members. They’re awful, and nearly impossible to regulate. We’ve recruited Sarah Silverman to help spread the word about how to avoid falling into their clutches.
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Editor's Note
Like many liberals, John Oliver is quite eloquent at describing the abuses and preternatural corruption of capitalism, in this case the "payday" loans industry. The problem is that while liberals are good at diagnosing a social cancer when they see it, they are lousy at recommending the proper therapy. For cancer they recommend some quack remedy. Thus as a full-fledged member of the Democrat courtier media, Oliver is happy to expose and castigate many of the system's blatant crimes, thereby burnishing his liberal creds, but his comfortable allegiance to the Democratic party—a party that exists precisely to block and co-opt true social change by disarming real opponents of the imperial oligarchy— makes him often an accomplice of the same Democrats, rendering his reformist efforts a bit hypocritical and self-defeating. This is a classical contradiction of all liberals. Incidentally, the Democratic party, as a supporter of Wall Street and warmongering imperialism, is NOT a centrist party, but a rightwing party. Let's make that perfectly clear from the start. —PG
Predatory Lending: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Aug 11, 2014
Payday loans put a staggering amount of Americans in debt. They prey on the elderly and military service members. They’re awful, and nearly impossible to regulate. We’ve recruited Sarah Silverman to help spread the word about how to avoid falling into their clutches.
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