Bernie Sanders
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And the first Tuesday in March, there were town meetings all over the state.
So you got towns of 500 people.
People come out and they raise their hand.
They argue about how much they're going to spend on the roads, how much they're going to spend on the schools, et cetera, et cetera.
and majority wins, right?
That's kind of old-fashioned democracy.
We are nowhere near that anymore in this country.
Candidates spend half their lives or more raising money.
They're scared to death about AI.
They're scared to death about crypto money.
They're scared to death about APAC money, billionaire money in general.
We are losing democracy in that respect.
So the goal, of course, is to get rid of Citizens United.
In my view, move to public funding of elections.
But what the Democratic Party can do tomorrow is to say, you know what?
We do not want super PACs in Democratic primaries.
Get them out.
And any candidate who does not help us get it out will be punished in A, B, and C ways, and there are ways that you can do that.
You're absolutely right.
Nothing more than I can add to that, except the problem is getting worse and worse every day.