Ben McKenzie

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2,248 appearances 5 recordings 5 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 13 May

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It's Open with Ilana Glazer · Ben McKenzie · 23 Apr 2026 podcast

And ours just keeps kind of going, on average, up, but very slowly.

The relative power that they have just becomes...

you know, so massive compared to what the rest of us, especially with Citizens United, their ability to use their own money to influence politics, that it just destroys the democracy.

And then we are kind of living in like a weird, you know, we're not in China, we're not in Russia, but we're definitely not in the America that at least I believed I grew up in.

I mean, all of the problems in our economic system, to me, stem from problems in our democratic system.

Like if the people were actually in control, the majority of the population was in control of the policies that the politicians actually enacted.

then there would be much higher taxes on billionaires.

Then there would be... I'm not saying the majority of the population is perfect.

We've seen deficiencies in that before, but right now we're just not really living in a functional democracy, right?

The Senate is not really a representative body because each state has two senators.

And so to fix these things...

it's going to require significant change.

I think it's going to require term limits on the Supreme Court and or new justices so that, because right now the highest court in the land is just fundamentally anti-democratic.

And anti-human, really.

I mean, it's like, you know what I mean, the abortion decision and the decisions actually just up and down.

I mean, they're now sort of

often doing whatever Trump wants them to do.

Our Constitution is such a bizarre document in many ways, right?

Because there is no other position that I'm aware of in the federal government that's for life other than the Supreme Court.

So that's weird.

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