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President Jimmy Carter says again that we are an Oligarchy Oprah Winfrey asked President Jimmy Carter if he could become president today. He said absolutely not. “There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more,” Jimmy Carter said. “And I would…

Jimmy Carter Former President Jimmy Carter, 91, who just revealed his liver cancer has spread to his brain, told an Oprah Winfrey “SuperSoul Sunday” audience America is now an oligarchy, and that’s having a dramatic effect on the country’s politically tied moral and ethical compasses. “We’ve become now an oligarchy instead of a democracy,” he said,…