Are credit union members “American idiots”?

Do some credit union leaders, the general press, and those charged with overseeing the public good believe the member-owners of cooperatives are idiots? I believe those who think and act that way will soon be standing in front of a revolution if the behavior in mergers and other acquisitions continues as described below.

In the first decade of this century a punk rock group, Green Day, wrote a political protest song called “American Idiot.” The song was a loud screed against the fear and xenophobia which they believed the public media promoted after the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq.

The chorus of this complaint is:

“Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn’t meant to be okay
In television dreams of tomorrow
We’re not the ones who are meant to follow
For that’s enough to argue”

 

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