Hour-long talk by Larry Lessig on the
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in US politics and government.

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How do we clean up politics?

1. Provide that public elections are publicly funded;
2. Limit, and make transparent, independent political expenditures, and;
3. Reaffirm that when the Declaration of Independence spoke of entities “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” it was speaking of natural persons only.

I think Lessig does an excellent job of explaining the core problem that has crippled the political system in the US and all branches of the US government. He tries to reach out to both the politcal left and the political right. IMO he probably pleases neither which might be the best one can do.