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Progressive organizations in Maine were told that some of these super funders were going to back out of Maine if they passed this initiative. 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 PolicyCast 🏷️ Politics , Maine

Simplified: Progressive organizations in Maine were told super funders would back out if they passed the initiative.

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8 months ago
Economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U. S. government policy while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little o... 0.900

👤 Ralph Ranalli 📋 Podcast

Simplified: Economic elites and business groups have substantial impact on US policy while average citizens have little influence.

1 sources

8 months ago
You’ve got to have a populist hammer that breaks up everybody in the federal government and everybody in these universities and then a set of aristocrats that is common good oriented who’s connected t... 0.700

👤 Archon Fung 📋 Podcast

Simplified: You have to have a populist hammer that breaks up the federal government and universities and then a set of aristocrats.

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8 months ago
You can’t address the tax problem until you address the money problem. 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast

Simplified: You cannot address the tax problem until you address the money problem.

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8 months ago
The Musk problem is a harder problem to take care of. 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast

Simplified: The Musk problem is a harder problem to take care of

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8 months ago
To address that, we’d have to either get the Supreme Court to reverse this whole line of thinking, which it’s a hard thing to imagine. 0.800

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast

Simplified: To address that we would have to get the Supreme Court to reverse this whole line of thinking

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8 months ago
To address that, we’d have to get an amendment to the constitution to give our government, our Congress, our people the power to protect themselves against this kind of corrupting influence. 0.800

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast

Simplified: To address that we would have to get an amendment to the constitution to give our government the power to protect themselves against corrupting influe...

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8 months ago
In both cases, about 60% of the U. S. population is approximately zero. 0.900

👤 Archon Fung 📋 Podcast

Simplified: About 60% of the U S population is approximately zero

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8 months ago
You’ve got to accept the fact there’s something wrong with the system you’ve got, and you’ve got to fix it. 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast

Simplified: You have to accept there is something wrong with the system and you have to fix it

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8 months ago
In the Democratic primary the party ought to adopt a rule that no candidate will accept and will actively try to block the support from any super PACs. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 PolicyCast 🏷️ Politics , Campaign Finance

Simplified: In the Democratic primary the party ought to adopt a rule that no candidate will accept and will actively block support from super PACs.

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8 months ago
Seattle experimented and Oakland and LA is now considering, a voucher program that would hand vouchers to everybody to help fund campaigns, which would radically change the attention that members of C... 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 PolicyCast 🏷️ Politics , Campaign Finance

Simplified: Seattle experimented with a voucher program to fund campaigns and Oakland and LA are considering it which would change the attention members of Congre...

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8 months ago
Diversity, equity, and inclusion is actually instrumental to the ideology of this 20 percent in that they get to feel that they are on the side of justice and inclusion at the same moment that they ar... 0.800

👤 Archon Fung 📋 Podcast

Simplified: Diversity equity and inclusion is instrumental to the ideology of the 20 percent.

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8 months ago
96% of Americans thought it important to reduce the influence of money in politics. 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast

Simplified: 96% of Americans thought it important to reduce the influence of money in politics.

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8 months ago
91% didn’t think it was possible. 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast

Simplified: 91% did not think it was possible.

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8 months ago
The wealthiest in society will support reforms that don’t hurt them. 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast

Simplified: The wealthiest in society will support reforms that do not hurt them.

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8 months ago
They’re happy to change the way primaries work. 0.800

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast

Simplified: They are happy to change how primaries work.

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8 months ago
It levied a surcharge on any income over basically a million dollars. 0.900

👤 Ralph Ranalli 📋 Podcast

Simplified: The Fair Share Amendment levied a surcharge on income over a million dollars.

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8 months ago
Musk is allowed to spend as much money as he wants as long as he spends it independently of the campaign. 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast

Simplified: Musk is allowed to spend money as long as he spends it independently of the campaign

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8 months ago
We can deal with the kind of gross middle problem that you described. 0.800

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast

Simplified: We can deal with the gross middle problem

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8 months ago
A necessary step forward is a set of leaders who is more connected to the bottom 80%. 0.800

👤 Archon Fung 📋 Podcast

Simplified: A necessary step forward is a set of leaders who is more connected to the bottom 80%

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8 months ago