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Graham Platner: “You clearly need to raise money to compete for this stuff…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 02:30

I mean, I was already pretty cynical about money in politics and that has. That. That cynicism has just been supercharged. I mean, it is like. And I like, in the Problem is like, You clearly need to raise money to compete for this stuff, but there is just a whole apparatus that seems to exist just to suck up money. Yeah. And like. And that has been really eye opening. I mean, the political industrial complex or the campaign industrial complex, whatever you want to call it. (02:30–02:39)

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Asserts the existence of an apparatus in politics that primarily exists to absorb money.

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