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0 pointsBud10y ago0 comments

Great. I agree with that, of course. And perhaps if he wasn't wasting millions of dollars of donor money on running for President, his PAC could do more good.

What if Lessig actually won? It wouldn't matter at all. You think the Republican Congress is going to pass sweeping campaign finance reform? Jesus Christ could return and be President and he wouldn't be able to make that happen, either. Lessig surely understands our system well enough to know this. So why is he doing this very expensive pretending that him being President will cause any change? If a Democrat in the White House could magically fix this, Obama would fix it right now.

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zeckalpha10y ago

What would he need congress for? Some people run just to change the conversation, not to win.

hga10y ago

In fact, that's been a successful third party tactic in times past: get successful enough and one or the other major parties will absorb it and much of its platform.

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0 pointsBud10y ago0 comments

Great. I agree with that, of course. And perhaps if he wasn't wasting millions of dollars of donor money on running for President, his PAC could do more good.

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zeckalpha10y ago

What would he need congress for? Some people run just to change the conversation, not to win.

hga10y ago

In fact, that's been a successful third party tactic in times past: get successful enough and one or the other major parties will absorb it and much of its platform.

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