earlyn the late 1960s, 1970s, civil rights and voting rights were really starting to expand. vote for a system that was little more fair and just. pump the money into lobbying and politics and you begin to knock down the barriers to money and politics. year processa 40 in this country of money moving into politics. from theill dominates presidential level down to the local city council level. we end up in a situation, you talk about an issue like poverty, gets pushed aside.

by putting millions of dollars into advertising very earlyn in the designer jean phenomeno many entrepreneurialir finances. theyidn't know ifhe consumer would like it as much as they entually did like it. if it hadn't been a success, that advertising money would have bankrupted many compaes. in 1965, jeans were bought on the order of one pair less than one pair per capita. that increased to almost three per capita. a blue denim gold mine-- how long could you work that vein? the market gotverdone when you'd see a signer jean on everybody's back pocket regardless of their station in life. the product started at the market's higher end working its way down to the masses. it lost its status. the consumer wouldn't pay that premium price. whenevere look back on yesterday's hot fashions, we generally ask "wt diwe ever see in that?" mes change and tastes change. we asked our economic analystrichard gill whathe changes in tastesfashions, and products might tells about the ofupy and demand. a great greek philosopher once summed up the world in thehrase, "a is flux." he could have been talking about the j

earlyn the late 1960s, 1970s, civil rights and voting rights were really starting to expand. vote for a system that was little more fair and just. pump the money into lobbying and politics and you begin to knock down the barriers to money and politics. year processa 40 in this country of money moving into politics. from theill dominates presidential level down to the local city council level. we end up in a situation, you talk about an issue like poverty, gets pushed aside. in a situation where washington dc, the capital of the wealthiest nation in the world -- we can go to war in syria, we can bailout iran, but we just don't have enough money to put people on food stamps. that is "dollarocracy." tavis: help me understand, if money controls everything, if everything and everybody is up for sale, and if you don't have the money to participate in the bidding process, how do you exercise whatever agency we are supposed to have in a democracy? >> that is where he gets very difficult. at the end of the day, we do have that vote. we still it lets the great people, and honest people

earlyn the late 1960s, 1970s, civil rights and voting rights were really starting to expand.for a system that was little more fair and just. pump the money into lobbying and politics and you begin to knock down the barriers to money and politics. year processa 40 in this country of money moving into politics. from theill dominates presidential level down to the local city council level. we end up in a situation, you talk about an issue like poverty, gets pushed aside.