Clout
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Big banks became particularly influential not just through their financial
clout
, but also through their control of key policymaking positions in Democratic administrations.
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One of the things that is so profoundly exciting and challenging about this moment is that as a result of this power illiteracy that is so pervasive, there is a concentration of knowledge, of understanding, of
clout.
Well, this problem, this challenge, is a thing that we must now confront, and I believe that when you have this kind of disengagement, this willful ignorance, it becomes both a cause and a consequence of this concentration of opportunity of wealth and
clout
that I was describing a moment ago, this profound civic inequality.
The laws have some sort of ontological power or
clout
that they can form the abyss, that it's pregnant with being.
And how much
clout
could they bring to bear if they chose to engage on the issue?
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