00:00I believe that getting the money out of politics is the greatest moral challenge of our generation.
00:04Because it is the cancer underlying all the cancers.
00:07Whether it's climate change, whether it's our high child poverty rates,
00:10the corruption of our food supply by GMOs,
00:13the fact that we have the highest mass incarceration rate in the world.
00:16The painful truth of the matter is that in America today,
00:21powerful people give campaign contributions as a business expense.
00:26We have a bought and sold political process.
00:30We have a one-person, one-vote system.
00:32And they're trying to turn it into a $1, one-vote.
00:35And that's plutocracy, not democracy.
00:37These are people who are paying politicians to underfund our schools.
00:42These are people who are paying money to create results that are absolutely damaging to society.
00:50And that's what pay-to-play is.
00:52It's an ugly, ugly reality.
01:00When money equals speech, speech ceases to be free.
01:04And a very few have a monopoly on the discussion.
01:11A corporation is a sociopath.
01:15Corporations have one single purpose, and that's to make profit.
01:23Probably the worst example of a pay-to-play catastrophe is this monstrosity called Alec.
01:34What impact can one person make?
01:36They make all the impact, because somebody's got to start everything, right?
01:39Somebody's got to stand up.
01:44The idea that corporations are going to take over American politics, that's nonsense.
01:48Corporations have already taken over American politics.
01:55What we need is a power shift.
01:58And that begins by taking corporations out of our democracy.
02:02We need to take over American politics.
02:05We need to take over American politics.
02:08We need to take over American politics.
02:12We need to take over American politics.
02:13We need to take over American politics.
02:13We need to take over American politics.
02:14We need to take over American politics.
02:14We need to take over American politics.
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