David Rothkopf
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813 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 22 Aug
David Rothkopf’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He wants a country that's run by the elites.
And, you know, let's be honest.
That's what we have right now.
Since Citizens United, since this Supreme Court has dug in,
the amount of money spent by billionaires in political campaigns in the past 10 years has gone up 14,000%.
What's going on here is they now control the agenda.
They're happy to control the agenda.
They pick who the candidates can be.
They decide what's going to get money against it and what's not.
And meanwhile, you look at the things that are important to you or me or to most Americans, whether it's
you know, tax reform or health care or gun control or protecting the environment.
All those things, by the way, that's not a progressive agenda.
That's supported by 70, 80, 90 percent of the American people.
And yet they're politically untouchable.
And that's the sign that our democracy is broken.
Because if you have things that 70 or 80 percent of voters want and you can't advance them,
That means that, you know, it's not the ballot box that's driving it.
It's, you know, the check writing that's driving the U.S.
government.
These are the people that are behind it.
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