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America’s Hidden Duopoly (Ep. 356 Rebroadcast)

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The Politics of Politics

In two thousand seven gale joined the national finance committee of baracco bama's presidential campaign. She became one of his top fund raisers. A couple of years after obama was elected, gale joined the board of a government organization called the overseas private investment corporation. And i was paying a lot of attention to what was happening in washington, d c. It became really clear to me that this fight was not about solving problems for american people. This fight was about one party beating the other party and that the parties were more committed to that than to actually solve problems or creating opportunities....

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