"Luke, I am freakishly evil..."
"Let's just start and end with It is a corrupted system and we want politians to fix it. And if they don't fix it we'll throw them out until we get the politicians that do. And if we could build that as a movement, the recognition, the core message of 2020, I think there's a real shot because we've primed the Republican party, a lot of people in that party who are now so discussed with the corruption of the system, not necessarily Mitch McConnell, he loves it, but ordinary Republican voters and the Democrats have now committed themselves to fixing this corrupted system."
-Lawrence Lessig
There's a way to fix this to give us a representative democracy, not maybe again, but for the first time.
If I could wave a wand there would be no political ads, no Super- Pacs and debates would be open to an array of political party representatives. What would be wrong with a debate system of 25 Presidential candidates that are whittled down to a manageable few, three or four (or more). The two party system is not working, not at all.
Lawrence Lessig was on the Joe Rogan Podcast about a year ago. He had a tiny ember of hope that 2020 might be the year of campaign reform and while that ember probably had been stomped out a long time ago, this discussion bears repeating.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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from Wikipedia:
Lester Lawrence Lessig III (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic, attorney, and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Lessig was a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for president of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but withdrew before the primaries.
Lessig is a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. In 2001, he founded Creative Commons, a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon and to share legally. Prior to his most recent appointment at Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School, where he founded the Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He is a former board member of the Free Software Foundation and Software Freedom Law Center; the Washington, D.C. lobbying groups Public Knowledge and Free Press; and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
As a political activist, Lessig has called for state-based activism to promote substantive reform of government with a Second Constitutional Convention. In May 2014, he launched a crowd-funded political action committee which he termed Mayday PAC with the purpose of electing candidates to Congress who would pass campaign finance reform. Lessig is also the co-founder of Rootstrikers, and is on the boards of MapLight and Represent.Us. He serves on the advisory boards of the Democracy Café and the Sunlight Foundation.
In August 2015, Lessig announced that he was exploring a possible candidacy for President of the United States, promising to run if his exploratory committee raised $1 million by Labor Day. After accomplishing this, on September 6, 2015, Lessig announced that he was entering the race to become a candidate for the 2016 Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Lessig described his candidacy as a referendum on campaign finance reform and electoral reform legislation. He stated that, if elected, he would serve a full term as president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates.
There's a way to fix this to give us a representative democracy, not maybe again, but for the first time.
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As this 2020 American Presidential election is ramping down it reminds me many time over what a corrupt system we have and I don't mean the absurd accusations of a President who is grasping at straws, I am talking about the corrupt two party system that is designed not to create a representative democracy at all but a brokered sharing of power with all the trappings of such. Money, unbridled influence and more money when these politicians leave office.
If I could wave a wand there would be no political ads, no Super- Pacs and debates would be open to an array of political party representatives. What would be wrong with a debate system of 25 Presidential candidates that are whittled down to a manageable few, three or four (or more). The two party system is not working, not at all.
Lawrence Lessig was on the Joe Rogan Podcast about a year ago. He had a tiny ember of hope that 2020 might be the year of campaign reform and while that ember probably had been stomped out a long time ago, this discussion bears repeating.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Full Discussion Below:
from Wikipedia:
Lester Lawrence Lessig III (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic, attorney, and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Lessig was a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for president of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but withdrew before the primaries.
Lessig is a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. In 2001, he founded Creative Commons, a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon and to share legally. Prior to his most recent appointment at Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School, where he founded the Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He is a former board member of the Free Software Foundation and Software Freedom Law Center; the Washington, D.C. lobbying groups Public Knowledge and Free Press; and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
As a political activist, Lessig has called for state-based activism to promote substantive reform of government with a Second Constitutional Convention. In May 2014, he launched a crowd-funded political action committee which he termed Mayday PAC with the purpose of electing candidates to Congress who would pass campaign finance reform. Lessig is also the co-founder of Rootstrikers, and is on the boards of MapLight and Represent.Us. He serves on the advisory boards of the Democracy Café and the Sunlight Foundation.
In August 2015, Lessig announced that he was exploring a possible candidacy for President of the United States, promising to run if his exploratory committee raised $1 million by Labor Day. After accomplishing this, on September 6, 2015, Lessig announced that he was entering the race to become a candidate for the 2016 Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Lessig described his candidacy as a referendum on campaign finance reform and electoral reform legislation. He stated that, if elected, he would serve a full term as president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates.
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