Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.
There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.
If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.