Take-away 1:
Talking about Campaign Finance Reform is a tough one because we have to figure out how to acknowledge the overall corruption of the way we're doing things without letting the discussion degenerate into "Both Sides".
Take-away 2:
99% of the money spent by the presidential campaigns in 2016 was spent in 14 states.
Take-away 3:
Mitch McConnell defends the current system of Money-Is-Speech and Electoral College Disproportionality because it supports his Minority Rules / Plutocracy approach to governance.
Take-away 4:
I'm still not buying the bit about "Bernie got screwed and it was all illegal and Trump's right, Hillary should be in prison - and that Wasserman-Schultz bitch too..."
There's a good argument to be made here, but it's way overblown and hyperbolic. Bernie's not a Democrat. He got used, and used badly - but the DNC didn't do anything to him that he wasn't trying to do to them. And it's devolved into pure speculation at this point anyway.
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