Campaigns need money because voters choose to be governed according to TV ads. This choice certainly frustrates elite nerds like HN readers and Larry Lessig. Bu

Campaigns need money because voters choose to be governed according to TV ads. This choice certainly frustrates elite nerds like HN readers and Larry Lessig. But it's tough to call it any less legitimate than other exercises of democratic power. To be governed by the people is to be governed by the decision-making heuristics natural to the people. In politics inclusive of everyday people, policy is going to play a minor role. That's how people are.