Ben Wikler
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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This is maybe a scary bet to take.
I don't think Republicans have 50 votes in the Senate for the SAVE Act.
And a lot of that is because the SAVE Act, it is a piece of shit legislation that would be disastrous for tons of Republican voters as well as Democratic.
Piece of shit legislation, yes.
That's the term of art.
It's a delight to be with you today.
talk about how it's the same or different today are we always sort of doomed to this rigging of whatever particular business group is in on top at any one time in the united states go back across the history of the country there are waves of power that accumulate in a tiny number of hands and people trying to lock in their power and control and then there are waves of the public rising up and then changing the rules to be able to protect the idea of democracy and expand the circle of freedom
That's a cycle we've always had.
In this moment, there's a more rapid and bigger accumulation of wealth and power than we've ever seen.
And Elon Musk is at the top of it.
He's the world's first trillionaire.
There could be more trillionaires.
Not anymore.
He was briefly the world's first trillionaire.
That's right.
There's a real possibility that with artificial intelligence, that even more wealth and power will accumulate in an even smaller number of hands.
In the United States...
We've had these waves of very rapid, enormous wealth accumulation, and then attempts to kind of like ossify and control the system.
And there are so many levels of government that occupy so many different parts of the power structure that you have the local robber baron who then buys and sells the state legislatures.
I think that right now, if you think about the way that Google sort of sucked all the advertising money out of the world, and it meant that all these institutions supported through advertising
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