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Lessig, Obama, and Grassroots Political Strategy

Started by TLF · 10 months ago

Larry Lessig is a great writer and a brilliant legal scholar, but my goodness does he have bad political instincts:
I can’t begin to understand why in a war where soldiers go to jail for breaking the law, the US Congress is so keen to make sure telecom companies don’t ... Continue reading »

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  • I don't get, though, that Lessig is giving a free pass, or whatever it is that people are saying he's doing on FISA. What is the response to his final statement about acknowledgment of some limits of power in the context of compromise?

    "Please, fellow liberals, or leftists, or progressives, get off your high horse(s). More on this with the next post but: it is not "compromising" to recognize that we are part of a democracy. We on the left may be right. We may be the position to which the country eventually gets. But we have not yet earned the status of a majority. And to start this chant of "principled rejection" of Obama because he is not as pure as we is, in a word, idiotic (read: Naderesque)."

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