Affluence & Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America by Martin Gilens

[@RobertM525]

Introduction ends at 2:09.

[@gabel13]

man this was right before occupy wall street

[@r.b.l.5841]

Interesting - I am reviewing before i read his book on this subject. Too bad 300,000,000 more Americans didn't watch.

[@Wonderboywonderings]

He misses the obvious solution to both removing money & increasing political competition: increasing the size of the house of representative. This makes for more & smaller districts and reduces the amount of money that must be spent on a typical campaign.