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It's a great idea, but it would take two terms just to make that proposal stick. It's going to take a lot more work to take money out of politics. Signing som
by snarfy 11y ago
It's a great idea, but it would take two terms just to make that proposal stick. It's going to take a lot more work to take money out of politics. Signing some papers and walking away won't work.
- djur 11y agoSome people call it the "Green Lantern theory of presidential power" -- that for one person with sufficient purity of intent and force of will, anything is possible. But the President doesn't get a magic ring of cosmic power, and the American political system was specifically designed to prevent rapid, radical change without comprehensive and unified support from all three branches.
- getrdone 11y agoLarry Lessig, George Washington and all other figures are/were human beings like the rest of us; it's only other people which catapult them onto pedestals. I think we should take stock in the coming socio-political fight for social justice, which needs a strong and wise torchbearer, so that it does not devolve into a French Revolution, but instead an insurrection in the spirit of democracy's promise of continual revolution. Because without a equality functioning across-the-board, history has shown time-and-time-again, that people inevitably seek country justice if city justice doesn't work for them. (It's not "right," but it's human nature.)