Look, you have one vote, the average American has one vote, but billionaires could start a super PAC and put hundreds of millions of dollars – tens of millions of dollars – into defeating the people they don't like and supporting the people they do like. That is not democracy. That is oligarchy.
Senator Sanders critiques the influence of billionaires in politics due to the Citizens United decision.
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