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estearum • today at 1:58 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

He's even better than you thought, then. Here's a post from a week ago (and a common refrain in his writing and speaking):

"I get why people voted for him. Because even before he came on the scene, American politics was coin-operated.

Money goes in, favors come out. It’s been running on corporate money, secret money, billionaire money. Both sides.

And when members of Congress aren’t fundraising from lobbyists and corporate PACs, they’re trying to dodge getting bombed by these super PACs.

Spectacular wealth buys an ever greater share of power over our national affairs. And this corruption is why nothing works for ordinary people."