The Citizens United ruling and the current campaign finance system empower billionaires to use super PACs to influence elections and effectively control political outcomes.

“So the issue is democracy versus billionaires being able to spend unlimited sums of money. Supreme Court went with that. And then the form it took was a what's called a super PAC.”

Corporations and the Chamber of Commerce actively want illegal immigrants in the workforce to depress wages and create conflict among the poor.

“Because the Chamber of Commerce, the people who actually run the government, the corporations and the billionaires, the oligarchs, they want them here. They want illegal immigr immigrants working jobs here. That they want that. And so then they could have poor people fighting even poorer, more despe”

Elected officials should refuse corporate PAC money to avoid conflicts of interest and serve the public effectively.

“Every day, all day, forever and ever. Only person in my race who never took corporate pack money in the past and will never take it in the future and is not taking it now.”

Corporate media outlets like the Wall Street Journal and Harper Collins are engaged in an aggressive campaign that is fundamentally opposed to American interests.

“But the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, Harper Collins, like all of them are engaged in a very aggressive campaign against America's interest.”

Business leaders support policies like open borders because they mistakenly believe in neocon ideologies and are incapable of challenging the consensus on the issue.

“The malign influence the Wall Street Journal editorial page, a whole generation of of of business people actually believe all this nonsense. It's very hard to uh to get get out of their heads cuz they're never allowed I mean they're never allowed criticism of immigration on on on the editorial page.”

Big Pharma commercials on television should be banned because they represent a conflict of interest and negatively influence public perception.

“he's the only person with the audacity to say that big Pharma should not advertise on television which I agree it is a wild conflict of interest”

The campaign led by Purdue Pharma to characterize all human pain as unacceptable and treatable through their products was an evil initiative.

“So, that shit's evil. It is evil. And I've never you're thinking about it much more broadly than I ever have. So, I have always been focused on the addict you know, the physical addiction, the societal destruction”

The United States is governed by a rigged system with politicians from both parties who are compromised by corporate interests.

“We have a rigged rigged system and we have politicians [music] on both sides who are bought off. That would be Republicans and Democrats.”