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We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim | Lawrence Lessig

In this TED talk, Lawrence Lessig argues that American politics is corrupted by Congress's dependence on funding from a tiny fraction of citizens. He uses rapid-fire visuals and calls for a bipartisan push to reclaim the Republic.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN cites it repeatedly as the root-cause argument that money in politics must be fixed before other issues, and as background for his Mayday PAC.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
TED
Topic
money in politics
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
8
HN mentions in dataset
19
Recommendation years in dataset
2013–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • I already do :( I think, it's in best interest of the people in power, that the campaign is so costly. When you look at the presidents of the last decades (I don't know to much US history, to go back to far), they all …

    PythonicAlpha on Hacker News · 2014-01
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  • The root cause of this is the influence of money on our politicians. Symptoms include laws written for the rich and the corporations rather than for the people, causing the continued growth of inequality and a drag on the economy. Support Lawrence Lessig in his …

    tim_hutton on Hacker News · 2015-01
    In Ask HN: What can we do to show we don't support the response to Aaron Swartz?

  • All of that, plus tax software companies, such as Intuit lobbying against simplifying the tax code. [LINK] And once again we reach the conclusion that corporate lobbying and donations are the "root of all evil" in American politics, and everything is broken because of it. …

    mtgx on Hacker News · 2017-01
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