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I'd not have thought that this would be a controversial statement given the current nature of US politics. Both parties are highly dependent on enormously wealthy donors. It's hard to believe that these people are getting nothing in return for their money. Graham's surprisingly naive about this. He simply says "The great concentrations of wealth I see around me in Silicon Valley don't seem to be destroying democracy." I couldn't quite believe he said this after we've seen the complicity of Facebook, Google etc. in the surveillance state.

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It should be easy to provide a citation then, I presume? saying "it's obvious" doesn't actually count as evidence

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It's a bit like asking for a citation showing that Barack Obama is currently the president. It would be hard to know where to start. Someone already mentioned the Koch brothers, and the recent news is not difficult to Google.