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Noam Chomsky: How the Business Class Shapes Our Opinions about Democracy and Government

"Elections are moments when groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state." - Thomas Ferguson

This is a clip from Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009). It is possibly the definitive documentary explaining the influence of money on politics. 

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