Larry Lessig considers running for the Democratic presidential nomination

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Reading these comments makes me sad. They serve as a reminder that with a problem so insurmountable, why even bother trying?

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I feel it too.

But the answer is because we came from somewhere and we have a trajectory to keep.

Think your 78-Greats Grandmother liked sitting in the muck and almost dying every time she gave birth? Today’s great compared to that. We gotta keep that trend.

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When did her plight end? During some sort of armed revolution? I don’t really want it to come to that.

Part of me thinks our comfortable society is partially to blame. People don’t care about injustices because they don’t really inconveniences them. The biggest thing that annoys the masses is when gas prices go too high, but even then we get used to the new normal.

But I’m getting off topic. I hope that at the least Lessig gets people talking about campaign finance. Is there an topical Last Week Tonight video we can share? That show’s writers are great at generating viral content.

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I think if people were paying attention, they’d notice there is a mainstream candidate running for the democrats, polling to beat Clinton and all republican comers who not only wants campaign finance reform (and is not taking corporate financing himself) but also wants end a wide variety of other blights on America.

Running as a single issue candidate when the next election is likely between someone who supports your issue and someone who is against your issue seems a little counter productive. Screw Lessig, support Sanders.

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Lessig - Sanders 2016

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I really can’t see Lessig doing anything other than siphoning a few votes away from Sanders, making Clinton even more likely to get the Dem nomination.

Can’t Lessig go run for the Republican nom instead?

Right now, he’s raised >$170K, so I’m imagining he’s going to meet his $1M target by Labor Day.

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No, what will happen is he’ll act as a spoiler in favor of Hillary Clinton who will do absolutely nothing about campaign finance reform along with many other vital, progressive agendas that will be set radically backwards for decades if Sanders loses to her in a tight race.

If Lessig understood proper strategy, he’d assist Sanders in rallying grassroots troops to fight to get Sanders elected and then fight with us in the following midterms to oust obstructionist Republicans and bluedog, establishment Democrats who are the root of the problem for reform in the first place.

Unfortunately, Lessig doesn’t understand our 2015 grassroots dynamic and his miserable failure with MayDay (that I will no no longer support) is a good example of this.

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[quote=“daneel, post:66, topic:63473”]
I really can’t see Lessig doing anything other than siphoning a few votes away from Sanders, making Clinton even more likely to get the Dem nomination.
[/quote]100% agree. This is Lessig at his worst.

[quote=“daneel, post:66, topic:63473”]
Can’t Lessig go run for the Republican nom instead?
[/quote]Nope, he apparently would rather shoot himself and Sanders in the head.

I will be shocked if he doesn’t hit that target much sooner. Think of all the Hilary Clinton money that would simply love to see Lessig run as a spoiler against Sanders.

Lessig has already moronically suggested his VP would most likely be Warren and would then resign to make her president. Warren is smartly not running in 2016 because she needs more foreign policy experience. That situation wouldn’t magically change if Lessig runs in 2016.

Lessig is obviously hurt that his MayDay scheme failed miserably, hurt his pride and is now attempting to overcompensate with an over-inflated ego.

Lessig is now dead to many Sanders supporters (including myself). Sanders won’t run as Lessig’s VP, Clinton won’t do it, nor will Warren. Lessig has gone off the deep end.

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Hillary Clinton’s support for the Iraq war should be a great big warning flag to decent 'dems. I cannot fathom the support she’s mustering.
I think the Western hemisphere could have a real chance of change with Bernie Sanders in the US and Jeremy Corby in the UK.

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