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America’s Hidden Duopoly (Ep. 356 Rebroadcast)

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The Third Leg of the Reform Agenda Is About Money in Politics

We propose moving away from partisan control of the day to day legislating in congress and also, of course, in state legislatures as well. The problem is really this nature of competition that leads t partisanship in that's not a money issue per se. That's a structural issue. If you take money out of politics, without changing the rules of the game, you'll simply make it cheaper for those using the existing system to get the self interested results that they want....

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