Editor's Note: Bad Takes is a column of opinion and analysis. If you're like me and only pretended to read the Italian poet Dante Alighieri's Inferno in high school, good news: a recent four-hour documentary on PBS breathes new life into the musty classic.
Those guilty of fraud end up on one of the lowest rings of Hell in Dante's masterwork, yet many in the U.S. make excuses for the crime's worst perpetrators.At left: Serial liar Donald Trump ; at right: liars attacked by serpents in Dante's eighth circle of Hell.Though seven centuries separate us, Dante's work remains tragically relevant for us today. His Florence of the 1300s was a city rotten with misrule and graft, embroiled in intractable polarization and civil strife.
"We have violent criminals who are murdering people, killing people, we have drug dealers all over the place, and they go free, and they can do whatever they want," Trump said March 25,In point of fact, claiming one's assets are worth one thing when you're applying for a bank loan and worth far less when the tax collector comes around is indeed a crime — to the tune of an estimated $454 million in Trump's case, counting the interest.
Stewart aptly summed up the ethic of late capitalism:"Stealing is only justified when you already have too much."
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