
On St Patricks Day, a US State of the Nation special with Bernie Sanders
The David McWilliams Podcast
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You Can Have Inequality and You Can't Have Democracy
David Rothkopf: In America, maybe uniquely, we now have the best democracy that money can buy. He says billionaires can literally spend as much money as they want through what is called a super political action committee to elect or defeat candidates they don't like. "Tell me what kind of democracy it is when billionaires can spend unlimited amounts of money," he asks. 'I think it was Louis Brandeich said about the United States, about every country, says, you can have inequality, and you can have democracy, but you can't have both'
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