What's the connection?

The chat covers some egregious examples of regulatory capture in the US. Part of the focus is the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which purported to increase competition but in fact accomplished the opposite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996

Thanks for sharing! I haven't come across this podcast yet and it looks like some great content.

Awesome! Thanks for the link. Ending regulatory capture is the main plank in RFK Jr's presidential campaign. He's mentioned the FDA, NIH, EPA, the CIA and the military industrial complex, but I haven't heard him talk about capture of the telecom regulators.

Sorry for the political ad, but I'm frustrated by news articles that say "voters don't want Biden or Trump", but fail to mention RFK's campaign.

(stepping off the soapbox)

Oh, and did you hear that neither New Hampshire's nor Iowa's delegates to the Democratic national convention will be counted? Or rather, they'll automatically go to Biden. I kid you not.

(I'll just show myself out)

neither RFK or Vivek Ramaswamy have a chance

if you would like candidates like that to have a chance, petition your state to allow non party members to vote in primary elections

partisans of any party are a now minority in this country but the growing number of independents dont know it yet and have no representation, while their participation in the primaries would smooth out the candidate selection

in the mean time, fawning over non consensus candidates are a waste of time

it is accurate for there to be frustration over the two predictable candidates because rabid partisans are going to pretend that the rest of the population have a choice (as long as its the "choice" they like)

To add to your suggested voter reforms, implement ranked choice voting instead of first past the post.