Even if,like Lawrence Lessig, you bear some kind progressive goals, or insisting they’ll happen against the historic workings of government is unrealisticHarvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig has raised a million dollars and declared that he’s running for the Democratic nomination for president – and he claims to bear invented a new strategy that would compel Congress to pass his agenda. Lessig’s campaign is based on a simple promise – that his entire goal as president would be passing the “Citizens Equality Act,” a series of (attractive) electoral and campaign finance reforms. He has vowed to attain nothing but focus on the act and then resign once it’s passed. Even if North Korean troops attempt to march into Seoul, a hurricane hits Miami and a US Supreme Court emptiness emerges, and Lessig will retain a laser focus on his pet procedural reforms. By declaring the election a “referendum,” he asserts, even the Republicans who will almost certainly control the House of Representatives in 2016 will bear no choice but to pass his proposed legislation. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com