And somehow be a check on this larger corporate entity. But the corporate world understands exactly what you said, and that's why they're trying to buy the government. So in some ways, You can almost look at government today as a result of Citizens United, as the House and the Senate, as employees of large corporations and wealthy people. I mean, that's what, you know, if you're a billionaire, you could start a super pac, put hundreds of millions of dollars into an effort to defeat, say, Sherrod Brown in Ohio or other candidates, or aipac. (15:53–16:05)
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