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My review of "Republic Lost"
  • DeMarquis December 2011 +1 -1
    See my website for my latest review, of Lawrence Lessig's "Republic Lost", about the systemic corruption that has infected the Congress. From the review:

    “The clue that something is wrong is the endless list of troubles that sit on our collective plate but never get resolved” Lessig writes, also quoting Thoreau: we are… “The thousand hacking at the branches of evil, with one striking at the root.” The stated purpose of Lessig’s book is to name that root: “… the thing that feeds the other ills, and the thing that we must kill first.”

    The reason why our government cannot address the many ills that demand our attention, from a growing deficit to the health care crisis to an accelerating climate catastrophe, the reason that a vast majority of Americans have lost trust in Congress, is a form of systemic corruption. “It is the economy of influence now transparent to all, which has normalized a process that draws our democracy away from the will of the people… we have created instead an engine of influence that seeks to make those most connected rich.” Not the rich in general, but instead those who “secure their wealth through the manipulation of government and politics.”

    My website is at http://387442890115614373.weebly.com/
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