Fannie Mae-No Politics (FNMA)

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Expert propaganda. Notice that the writer has not acknowledged that the shareholders actually OWN the GSEs and thus have property rights.

Just notice the subtlety of these expert propagandists when they say things like this phrase from that article "it is important that policy makers decide how to handle the shareholders..." (Paraphrasing there). What does that mean? Parse that sentence and SO many questions arise. Is he saying that policymakers should decide and not courts? And what does "handle the shareholders" mean? Handle their dismissal? Handle their property rights? Handle their unpopular hedge fund representatives? That phrase is an example of how manipulators like lawyers and politicians use soft language in order to persuade. The reader is supposed to come away being more in tune with "what's best for the nation" according to the genius "policy makers" rather than, say, upholding the law and enforcing property rights. The reader is supposed to come away being more emotionally / passively on the side of whomever is speaking so reasonably calmly, and rationally and thoughtful as this writer, and not taking time to think about the law. The writer is making it SEEM like he is giving due attention to both sides, when he is not.