![]() ![]() GAZETTE: You argue that the problem is not that our political system benefits the rich but that it benefits no one. Each of these dimensions produces an inherently, unavoidably unrepresentative representative democracy, and that seems to be the core problem that we must find a way to reform. And most fundamentally and most grotesquely, the way we fund campaigns is obviously unrepresentative. The way votes get suppressed by states attempting to entrench the party in power is obviously unrepresentative. The Electoral College through its winner-take-all system is obviously unrepresentative. ![]() Gerrymandering is pretty obvious to people in its unrepresentativeness. ![]() LESSIG:Once you see this unrepresentativeness in one place you see it every place. ![]() GAZETTE: What are some of the most obvious signs that our representative government is not all that representative? The Gazette recently spoke to Lessig about how it got this way and how he believes it can be fixed. In “They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy,” Lessig argues that the nation’s political system is in a state of dysfunction, mired in partisanship and dominated by special interests. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School casts his sights on the broader topic of reinvigorating democracy. Lawrence Lessig has long crusaded against the influence of money in politics. ![]()
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