Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress–and a Plan to Stop It Audiobook (Free)

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In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government-driven simply by shifts in campaign-finance rules and brought to fresh levels with the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission-trust inside our government has already reached an all-time low. As part of your before, Americans believe that money buys results in Congress, which business passions wield control over our legislature.

With heartfelt urgency and a keen desire to have about Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress–and a Plan to Stop It righting wrongs, Harvard laws teacher Lawrence Lessig takes a clear-eyed look at how we attained this crisis: how fundamentally good people, with good motives, have allowed our democracy to become co-opted by outside passions, and how this exploitation is becoming entrenched in the system. Rejecting simple brands and reductive logic-and instead using examples that resonate as powerfully on the proper as within the Left-Lessig seeks out the root causes of our scenario. He plumbs the problems of campaign financing and commercial lobbying, exposing the human faces and follies which have allowed corruption to take such a foothold in our system. He puts the issues in conditions that nonwonks can understand, using real-world analogies and genuine human tales. And eventually he demands widespread mobilization and a new Constitutional Convention, delivering possible solutions for regaining control of our corrupted-but redeemable-representational program. In this manner, Lessig plots a roadmap for returning our republic to its intended greatness.

While America may be divided, Lessig vividly champions the idea that we can succeed if we accept that corruption is our common foe and that people must discover a way to fight against it. In REPUBLIC, Shed, he not only makes this want palpable and clear-he gives us the practical and intellectual tools to do something about any of it.