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Graham Platner: “We live in the outcome of policy policies that have been…”

Featuring: Graham Platner, Populist, Progressive | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Maine

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Published | Video Starts at 11:46

And it's dying because people have made policy decisions to create this outcome. It's important for people to know the world that we live in right now. It isn't natural. None of this is organic. We live in the outcome of policy policies that have been implemented really for the last 40 years by establishment politicians at the behest of those who donated the most money to them. And the fascinating thing is everybody knows. Everybody knows that. Say that to the average American and they're going to nod at you because they know that their political system is bought off by people with money. (11:46–11:59)

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Asserts that current societal conditions are the result of policies implemented over the last 40 years by politicians influenced by major donors.

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