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Chris Murphy: “Our politics becomes winner take all politics.”

Featuring: Chris Murphy, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Published | Video Starts at 19:44

And we've normalized that because we've normalized the idea that sort of shared prosperity is not a value any longer in our economy, okay? When that becomes normalized inside our economy, it becomes normalized inside our politics, too. Our politics becomes winner take all politics. So if a CEO is justified in making 1,000 times more than the average worker and using his power as CEO to abuse workers in order to enrich himself. (19:44–19:48)

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Asserts that the current political system is a winner-take-all system.

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