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This urgent book offers not only a cleareyed explanation of the forces that broke our politics, but a thoughtful and, yes, patriotic vision of how we create a government thats truly by and for the people.DAVID DALEY, bestselling author of Ratf**ked and UnriggedIn the vein of On Tyranny and How Democracies Die, the bestselling author of Republic, Lost argues with insight and urgency that our democracy no longer represents us and shows that reform is both necessary and possible.Americas democracy is in crisis. Along many dimensions, a single flawunrepresentativenesshas detached our government from the people. And as a people, our fractured partisanship and ignorance on critical issues drive our leaders to stake out ever more extreme positions.In They Dont Represent Us, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig charts the way in which the fundamental institutions of our democracy, including our media, respond to narrow interests rather than to the needs and wishes of the nations citizenry. But the blame does not only lie with themWashingtons politicians and power brokers, Lessig argues. The problem is also us. We the people are increasingly uninformed about the issues, while ubiquitous political polling exacerbates the problem, reflecting and normalizing our ignorance and feeding it back into the system as representative of our will.What we need, Lessig contends, is a series of reforms, from governmental institutions to the public itself, including: A move immediately to public campaign funding, leading to more representative candidates A reformed Electoral College, that gives the President a reason to represent America as a whole A federal standard to end partisan gerrymandering in the states A radically reformed Senate A federal penalty on states that dont secure to their people an equal freedom to vote Institutions that empower the people to speak in an informed and deliberative wayA soulsearching and incisive examination of our failing political culture, this nonpartisan call to arms speaks to every citizen, offering a farreaching platform for reform that could save our democracy and make it work for all of us.
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