Jeffrey Winters
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first heard May 2026
last heard 20 May
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Yes, I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, Ohio.
I came from a sort of a working class family.
And my father, who was not a political person at all, would jump straight to the comics page and the sports page of the newspaper, suddenly blurted out in front of his friends,
The rich control everything.
And I just had a very distinct memory of this.
And as a little kid, that made no sense.
I had been taught in school, we're in a democracy.
And so I relay this as a sort of a journey that I start on.
And I grow up and I go to college and I begin to study the relationship between our political system and the inequality that we were experiencing.
And finally, on to graduate school.
where I'm able to study this in even greater depth.
And what I come to discover is that we live in a political system which actually combines participation power, which is the essence of democracy.
People voting.
People voting, people speaking, people criticizing, people rallying, protesting, all of those things, that's participation power.
And all of us ordinary citizens have it.
And oligarchs have participation power just like we do.
But it turns out they have an additional form of power.
And that is the deployment of their wealth in that political system.
So first of all, oligarchs, that's a very ancient term.
It goes all the way back to the Greeks, Aristotle, Plato, and so on.
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