'Election deniers are dangerous enough, but big money is also poisoning our politics.'
years ago after examining in detail 1,799 policy issues before Congress,"The preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically nonsignificant impact upon public policy."Trumpism is a clear and present danger to American democracy—but so is the corruption of our system by big money.
In other words, the overwhelming dominance of big money has created a deep cynicism about our democracy, which Trump and election-denying Republican candidates are exploiting to the hilt. Those of us who love democracy must do more than vanquish Trumpism. We must also vanquish the corrupting influence of big money on our system. , is the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, for which Time magazine named him one of the 10 most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century.
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