Lawrence Lessig Answers You On Bernie Sanders, Campaign Finance Reform
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- Democratic Presidential Candidate and Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig sat down with AJ+ to answer questions on Bernie Sanders and others posted by our audience on Facebook and Twitter.
0:09 Colin Smith from Facebook asks Who are you? Why are you running for president?
0:46 Yanni Slav from Facebook asks Who is your sponsor? Let me rephrase that... Who are your sponsors?
1:21 David Gouldin @dgouldin from TWITTER ASKS in a gridlocked legislature, what guarantees do we have that you'll be able to pass campaign finance reform if elected?
2:27 Myles Lundberg from Facebook asks Do you have a responsibility to announce your running mate now seeing as whoever your running mate is would determine the person who runs the country after you resign?
3:21 Jose Perez from Facebook asks What are your thoughts on the assassination of JFK? Will you release any classified information left?
4:35 Michael Shafer from Facebook Do you feel as if Donald Trump's presidential campaign has taken away from the legitimacy of this presidential election?
6:00 Kevin Alcántar FROM Facebook With Bernie Sanders running and making the same campaign promises as you, why are you more deserving of our votes if you are just going to resign?
7:03 Alan Gerald Tyson from Facebook asks How will you get into the upcoming debates and do you feel like that is important for you to do?
7:54 A Facebook commenter, Charisma Davillian Asks Do black lives matter to you?
9:15 Joshua Zeitgeist Estelle from Facebook asks Will you clamp down on the NRA influence in Congress?
10:28 Logan Valcarce from Facebook asks Are you in favor of legalizing cannabis at the federal level? If so, in what regulation?
11:59 Soil @Swish4141 from Twitter asks @ajplus @lessig What is your plan to help the millions of American students suffering from student debt?
13:02 Juan Cervantes from Facebook asks I would like to you to detail your plan to solve the immigration problem.
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Lessig is a brilliant man and regardless of his chance to be president, we desperately need more people like him involved in the political process.
(Cough cough) Bernie sanders (cough cough)
+Gerry Martin both are great what he is saying we need more people like him and Sanders in politics
he won't win, don't split the vote, just vote for Bernie
You are right. But it would be great if they are cooperating.
+Adam Bradshaw maybe Bernie will pick him up as his running mate
+Adam Bradshaw Bernie is not as qualified. Look at their resumes. Bernie isnt calling out Hillary. Maybe Bernie could be Larry's VP.
+tx Still feel like Sanders isn't calling out Clinton?
0:09 Why are you running for president?
0:46 Who are your sponsors?
1:21 Finance Reform
2:27 Running mate
3:21 Assassination of JFK
4:35 Donald Trump
6:00 Bernie Sanders
7:03 Upcoming debates
7:54 Black lives matter
9:15 NRA influence
10:28 Legalizing cannabis
11:59 Student debt
13:02 Immigration
+AJ+ Very nice job, AJ+!
+AJ+ Is Lessig trying to derail Bernie Sanders?
please don't split the vote for Bernie just be his vice president +AJ
+Sammy Patel Bernie is not as qualified. Look at their resumes. Bernie isnt calling out Hillary. Maybe Bernie could be Larry's VP.
#BernieSanders2016
This guy should absolutely be in tomorrow's debates but he clearly poses a threat to the media and corporations and any corporate owned affiliates
I'd like to see him on the debate stage just to get another voice talking about campaign finance.
I would be down for a Lessig-Sanders ticket. What worries me is the primaries....
I hope he is going to be in the debates, though I doubt the media would allow that.
I'm for Sanders. But that's largely because I've been following him for months, and I was only made aware of mr. Lessig a few days ago. At the very least, I would LOVE to see him in the democratic debates, because the more unpurchased voices we have on that stage, the better. I must admit his strategy is fascinating, and I think it's actually an excellent one: he's 100% focused on undoing the damage that Citizens United did, PERIOD, whereas Bernie has focused on the systemic roots of these problems, meaning his campaign is fought on multiple fronts. Lessig has promised that if he's elected, he will achieve his one goal - to restore a genuine democracy - and then retire and delegate power to his VP (which would have to be Bernie Sanders, obviously.) I also really enjoyed his TED talk. I'll be watching this dude.
How do you figure?
I am an American, not sure why you would assume I'm not. I'm curious as to why you think "Bernie is a racist"?
And why are you doing this? Rational discussion is a good thing, no?
Haha. Whatever that means.
He should be in the debate tonight.
hes got big chance to run as bernies vp.
This is a smart man.
Jesus Christ did nobody bother to balance the sound on this? I shouldn't have to be struggling to hear one of the Presidential candidates over the stock music.
+Bushflare What an idiot for focusing on the background music when America and the World is in crisis. Can you grow up please ?
Tim Toomey You salty bro? You sound salty.
I wish he would have stuck with Bernie, they both have their hearts in the right place, it's just this guy doesn't have much experience in politics and seems too single-focused on this one issue. But who knows? Maybe Bernie will use him as a consultant.
I agree with everything you are saying and believe Bernie Sanders is the man to direct change in this direction realistically. #FeelTheBern
Very admirable man. Consider being Bernie's V.P? Just noticed that a lot of other people said the same thing. Sorry to be repetitive, but it's a great idea.
Yes!
I have a question for Lawrence Lessig:
If it looks like you can't win close to the first primary, will you then back out and support Bernie Sanders?
Lawrence, I'm totally on board & a longtime follower. In trying to convince other people to learn about you, I run up against a refusal to understand your referendum candidacy. "Why would he run for president and then quit?" they ask. I don't, myself, understand why people have so much trouble with this & so am not able to adequately address the concern. My explanations don't seem to make a dent in their incredulity, suspicion, or whatever it is. Have you or people on your campaign worked on this? i.e. the reasons why people react this way and what could be said to them?
His glasses are a standard size, his head is just enormous. I would like to see his policies beside Bernies, learning about all these politicians takes up too much time, 20 hour work week for all.
+amoore67 He has ONE policy! That's the point! He goes in SPECIFICALLY to fix the broken system and once it's done he vamooses and his VP, probably Bernie Sanders/Elisabeth Warren etc, gets to be the President and will have the rest of the term to enact the changes they wanted to make, only now the money is going to become far less of a factor in politics.
It's a daring idea, and I dunno if it's gonna work, but I'm glad he's at least trying.
Then he is a waste of time. With all that shutdown drama and whatever, it doesn't bring me any confidence to hear a quitter, it's only four years.
amoore67 It's not about quitting. It's about the one thing that the majority of people, regardless of political ideology, believe in in the USA. Anything else distracts from the matter and is best left to the Politicians, but Lessig's entire campaign focusses around the fact that politicians have demonstrably failed to do their job and protect democracy, so someone needs to step in to fix it, and then bow out again.
Right now Bernie still has my vote, but out of the two of them I want Lessig to win more.
I see his wishes but don't think it is a good idea to leave your accomplishments to fend for themselves, knowing what the other crazy politicians get paid to do. I am still learning about this Lessig and love Bernie's message.
amoore67 *shrug* I'd like to see congress overturn an amendment, like the one Wolf Pac are pushing through (without the need for congressional approval, btw). There are ways to make the changes stick, and a good VP would go a long way towards that.
Either way, so long as he doesn't draw votes from Bernie when the time comes (either Bernie moves into his campaign or Lessig moves into Bernies, etc) his presence in the race can only bring good things.
I'm with you, dog. 110%. BUT!!! ...Where can I buy glasses with tiny "Ben Franklin"-esque, round lenses, like that?! TELL ME NOW!!!!
Bernie should appoint him as the Fed chairman.
Bernie2016
He looks like Harry S Truman loool
While his talking points are quite similar to Bernie's, he doesn't stir up the excitement like Bernie. Bernie's voice booms to drive these points home. Lessig seems maybe too meek. Bernie=leader of a revolution.
Sanders Lessig 2016
cant split the vote, id like to see lawrence as bernie's vp tho.
Dude, just run for Bernie's VP.
It bothered me to hear Lawrence Lessig say at 11:02:
"I would move as aggressively as I could to stop this war [on drugs]."
I also believe that drug decriminalization in the U.S. would be a good thing, but that's a contentious issue, and it's a move that many would oppose.
The whole point of and rationale for a Lessig presidency is that it would be a means by which we could circumvent the incredible obstacles to achieving public financing of political campaigns and other important electoral reforms in the U.S. by conventional means. A single-issue candidate being elected to the U.S. presidency running on that platform would produce an incredible mandate for those reforms to be enacted that would be politically difficult for anyone in Congress to oppose.
But as soon as Lessig runs on any other issue, and especially if he suggests that he would actually take action in his role as president on any of those issues, he dilutes the potency of that mandate. He invites in the politics of personality through which others could demonize and oppose him as a person, and as a result have firmer ground upon which to feel comfortable opposing his proposed electoral reforms.
If Lessig is going to run as a multi-issue candidate, then the rationale to elect him over another multi-issue candidate with actual experience in elected office evaporates. If he is to have any chance of winning the Democratic nomination for president, I feel that he needs to go all in:
1. Fulling committing to working on electoral reform and nothing else while in office.
2. Allowing the American people to choose his vice president.
3. Pledging to, while in office, defer to his vice president on all matters not relating to the issue of electoral reform until such legislation is enacted and he steps down.
Bernie needs you for Veep
Funny how he says Bernie Sanders says whats wrong and doesn't say how to fix it when he doesn't say how..
Mark my words even Jim Webb will beat him in the primaries
+EightDaysAWeek00 Jim Webb has dropped out and Lessig beat Webb in the polls. Your words don't mean much and it's only been a week!
It bothers me that the crowd funded presidential candidates talk about how the other candidates have been bought by rich lobbyist and how that fact makes those candidates more untrustworthy. Crowdfunding your campaign leaves you open to receiving money from the same type of people but you technically don't even have the choice to refuse said money. Your blindly taking cash from wherever just to reach your goals.Crowdfunding sounds better but it just looks like the same thing in disguise. So it bothers me when these candidates start holding this moral high ground about not being bought by some rich benefactor when they basically are.
This guys seems to be replicating Sanders. Sucks this guy has NO TRAJECTORY. SANDRES has been an elected official for 33 years . :D
He sounds reasonable but i couldn't cast my one vote on someone who has no chance. He seems sincere but Americans want entertainment value. We desire someone who strikes an emotional chord. He is relational but he needs to excite the base.
if he's running for president why wasn't he at the debate. i would love for him to get in the race to attack hilary, so bernie won't have to do it
B S
My only fear about Sanders is that if he is elected he do like Obama and do the opposite of his promises. It's already pretty obvious to me that the other candidates are lying in order to get votes.
+MukkBoy Ixcel Yeah, exactly, that's why it would be good if Lessig could get elected, change the corrupted system and then leave it to Bernie so that Bernie could actually have a chance to do what he talks about. Otherwise, Sanders won't be able to do anymore than Obama.
+MukkBoy Ixcel Just look at Bernie's record. He has been at it for 20+ years.
+Anomie Toponymie we have to continue to work long after Bernie is elected. He has said that no president can do it alone. But he will lead us and guide us as to how to do that.
Yes, Dianna, yes!!!
Obama was backed by big money. There is a reason Bernie is poorest senator.
Lessig is a nice guy, and all... But isn't he a one policy president? After getting money out of politics, he's stepping down. So why all this extra info on other policies, that he's not going to implement?
'Specially if he gets his way with the two tier vote(Or is he still planning that?), and people vote for his vice-president as well?
more people copying Bernie lol
AJ+ Great stuff. This will catch on. Keep it up guys!
Anyone else feel Sanders + Lessig?