Lawrence Lessig on Money's Influence on US Politics
TED · Talk · YouTube title: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim | Lawrence Lessig
Why it's here
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.
What it covers
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.