Message for Team Lessig2016
Channel: ThirdCoast ThirdWorld
Date: 2015-08-26

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I'm Vince from Chicago… Human Rights and democratic governance are my core issues. I usually would not bother engaging in Presidential election politics. For what I'm trying to accomplish they often wind up being a big, noisy, expensive detour. I'm supporting Lessig because he wants to challenge and change the whole rotten system - not tinker around the edges of dysfunction.
I view both of the front-running candidates for the Democratic party largely positively. Hillary wants to break a glass ceiling that's due for shattering and as former Secretary of State she has a diplomacy first view of the world that takes human rights seriously and we haven't seen that in many candidates because the defense intelligence debacle machine has such a monopoly on American foreign policy. Bernie Sanders wants an economy that works for everyone, not just the millionaires and billionaires. He's been saying this for 30 years as a mayor, a Congressman, a Senator and now a Presidential candidate.
But there's a ravening beast of political corruption that wants to consume both of them - and all of us. And I'm tired of trying to appease the beast, or tip-toe around it. It's time to attack the monster right where it lives.
If Lessig wasn't building a candidacy I wouldn't be involved in this election directly at all. If this were an ordinary candidacy I wouldn't be involved at all. I'm here because of what he's asking of the American people. He's not just asking us for our vote. He doesn't even really want it - he'd rather it go to another candidate willing to stand on this mandate. What he's asking of the American people is that we transform how we think of American democracy from a system that's troubled but not-fixable to a view that realizes American democracy not only includes us, but belongs to us. All of us. Equally.
America needs to hear this. It needs to find itself again. My mission is simple: Get Larry Lessig to Philadelphia [for the Democratic National Convention]. The city where American democracy started is the city where we're going to rescue it.
So let's get to know each other and let's work together and let's find out how we're going to end this money primary, this donor dictatorship and make #EqualCitizensFirst the rally cry for every American voter in 2016. ~ Vince