We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim | Lawrence Lessig
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- Опубліковано 2 кві 2013
- There is a corruption at the heart of American politics, caused by the dependence of Congressional candidates on funding from the tiniest percentage of citizens. That's the argument at the core of this blistering talk by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig. With rapid-fire visuals, he shows how the funding process weakens the Republic in the most fundamental way, and issues a rallying bipartisan cry that will resonate with many in the U.S. and beyond.
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At present, 4,429 thumbs up, 90 thumbs down. This is out of balance based on the subject matter. There should only be two thumbs down, a proper representation of the 0.05% of relevant funders. I guess even here at UA-cam, people vote against their own best interests.
Joe Rogan sent me here
There are apparently 144 Lesters who didn't like this video... by my estimation, that's .02% of the people. Lawrence's math seems to check out.
7 years later and the problem is worse than ever and is destroying and dividing us.
Padmé: What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists, and the Republic has become the very evil we have been fighting to destroy?
This video is a decade old now... does anybody feel like we've made any progress in this direction? If so, how? If not, how?
This is what a true patriot looks like.
1. Term limits all around. 2. No salary; per diem only while in session. 3. Limits on size of staffs. 4. Restrict lobbying, irrespective of cause or assets. Put all ‘lobbying’ activity in the public domain for comment and discussion.
And what I am saying is this ... There is no way for voters to remove them.
flourish, grow, advance, mushroom, prosper, boom are all words found in the thesaurus by keyword. abuse, abusiveness, autocracy, brutality, calamity, coercion, compulsion, conquering, control, cruelty, despotism, dictatorship, domination, fascism, force, forcibleness, hardness, harshness, injury, injustice, iron hand, maltreatment, martial law, overthrowing, persecution, severity, subduing, subjection, suffering, torment, tyranny are all words found in the thesaurus under "oppression"
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I've shared this before and I will keep sharing it. I'm a little disturbed that it doesn't have nearly as many views as some of these other silly videos out there.
I've known for years that we have a corrupt system in this country of ours, and now I finally understand who's getting the money, and why some of us still love this country so much, how it's all one humongous misunderstanding. Like he said so very well, we all must act as citizens to bring this country, our home, back to the way it was originally conceived by our founding fathers.
I love the passion and emotion in his voice
I'm a Bernie Sanders Supporter, but I wholeheartedly agree with what Lawrence said here. I totally get why Lawrence is running, because simply endorsing Bernie isn't going to catch steam, but he's running his own one-issue platform to get the entirety of the Democratic party (or even just Bernie) to push more for Campaign Finance Reform and Income/Political inequality. An endorsement won't do it, he needs to get up on one of the debates and push his case.
This is one of the greatest videos I've ever seen in UA-cam! And now we are talkin' about a videos,which actually have true meaning to them & can actually make a real difference in the world. Excellent video!
A good man to admire. Great information and knowledge. Thanks for sharing.
God Bless America! Great and important speech. Hope you, the people of the USA will get your republic back. It can not be that (more less) 132 people finance the elections (buy it....). If you loose representative democracy too, like the EU already is and will be continue to do.... where will be democracy left....?? Switzerland is too little to stand alone....
DO NOT STOP GIVING THIS SPEECH PLEASE SIR - OUR COUNTRY CRIES OUT FOR IT!
The only way to fix the problem, is for the people to get more proactively involved. The citizens only have themselves to blame, and every individual needs to take responsibility for their lack of involvement. Even worse, most individuals need to take responsibility for falling for misinformation.
Being involved means being better educated about the truth and reality. That is a huge part of what this video is about, and hopefully it makes more people try to learn more.