{"id":280583,"date":"2010-02-04T17:17:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21590"},"modified":"2010-02-04T17:17:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:17:47","slug":"lawrence-lessig-how-to-get-our-democracy-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/280583","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Lessig: How to Get Our Democracy Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/change-congress.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ChangeCongress.gif\" alt=\"Change Congress\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21594\" width=\"250\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Lawrence Lessig writes in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20100222\/lessig\">Nation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Editors&#8217; Note: We encourage readers moved by this essay to <a href=\"http:\/\/nitn.thenation.com\/2010\/02\/03\/sign-the-petition-to-change-congress-now\">sign the Change Congress petition<\/a>, a drive to enact solutions proposed in this article. Click here to sign. A video commentary by Professor Lessig can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20100222\/lessig_video\">viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We should remember what it felt like one year ago, as the ability to recall it emotionally will pass and it is an emotional memory as much as anything else. It was a moment rare in a democracy&#8217;s history. The feeling was palpable \u2014 to supporters and opponents alike \u2014 that something important had happened. America had elected, the young candidate promised, a transformational president. And wrapped in a campaign that had produced the biggest influx of new voters and small-dollar contributions in a generation, the claim seemed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Lessig writes in the Nation: Editors&#8217; Note: We encourage readers moved by this essay to sign the Change Congress petition, a drive to enact solutions proposed in this article. Click here to sign. A video commentary by Professor Lessig can be viewed here. We should remember what it felt like one year ago, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}