So What the Heck Did Greenwald Say at a Memorial Lecture for a Pro-Lyncher That's So Secretive?

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80. "The mainstream view in the United States is that people do not trust the federal government"

Verbatim quote from his remarks, according to the post earlier in this thread.

More Barry Goldwater than Russ Feingold. This is how the libertarians troll Democrats. They pick issues of agreement, and use them to sow general hostility and distrust of the federal government.

If you really want proof of what a libertarian troll Greenwald is, and how he explicitly wants to help Republicans win elections, I give you this: (26:18)

And that’s the position that so many liberals and progressives have been in. Which is, you know, really finding Democratic policies to be repellant and yet at the same time, at the end of the day saying, well you’ve convinced me that they’re just a tiny, little bit worse. And the only way to break that is to say well, even though I know that by abstaining or supporting a third party, I’m going to be sacrificing some of my short term political interests; I’m going to be causing a few more Republicans to be elected than otherwise might be elected; on balance, I’m willing to sacrifice my short term interests in order to do something to subvert the stranglehold that these two parties have on the political process because electing more Democrats, even though it’s a little less scary, accomplishes nothing good.And everyone’s going to have to decide for themselves when they get to that point, and I think and hope that that point is pretty close. And if Obama does move to the center as the consensus is telling him that he should and starts doing things like cutting Social Security, which they’re revving up to do if they can get consensus on, in a very short period of time, I think you’re gonna see lots and lots of progressives and Democrats – even people who hated the Naderites for abandoning the party, start to entertain those options, and a lot sooner rather than later. And I hope that’s the case.

https://badgerherald.com/news/2010/11/03/does-us-use-terroris/

Greenwald's explicit viewpoint is:

1) there is literally no good that comes from electing more Democrats to office;
2) the best thing to happen is that Democrats start losing elections to Republicans

He is a libertarian troll, and deserves no other consideration.