If anyone thinks "short and distort" is what "brought america down", then they are too far out in left field to ever understand much of anything as it relates to the financial markets.
I worked for over 20 years in the business. It never ceases to amaze me just how uneducated in financial market matters people who frequent penny stock message boards can be. But given the obvious fact that most of the "promoters" in the business don't understand the first thing about the financial markets or the rules and regulations thereof, it shouldn't really be a surprise that most work under gross misconceptions.
We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it. --Patrick Henry, Patriot and Hero of the American Revolution