Lawrence Lessig's White House tilt hits crowdfunding goal Law professor and internet luminary Lawrence Lessig will run for the US Presidency after hitting his US$1million crowdfunding goal. Lessig announced his conditional candidacy, and a platform to take money out of US politics, in early August. A week later, Wikipedian Jimbo Wales clambered aboard the bandwagon. Both admitted …
The fact that it was raised and that he's running sends an important message in itself ... that the comfortable days are coming to an end because the people have had enough. This is, logically, what Occupy should have morphed in to, sooner, and stronger.
You know ... personally, I watched, "Sicko," by Michael Moore, and I can't fathom why there wasn't another civil war on the back of that film alone.
"You know ... personally, I watched, "Sicko," by Michael Moore, and I can't fathom why there wasn't another civil war on the back of that film alone."
I haven't seen it, but can well imagine what you're talking about. The thing is though, people have long since given up and instead pursue other interests like entertainment and gluttony. I bet if you ran the presidential elections on one channel while simultaneously airing football playoffs on the other, one of them wouldn't get a lot viewers.
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Your left list missed some of the most famous icons- Stalin, Kims of NK (the only successful socialist country I know of), Castro family, Mao, Pol Pot
The problem with people moving to the extremes of left and right is nobody wants to go to the centre and cooperate with their respected opposition.
Both sides are amusingly nutty which makes for great TV and student rallies but not for running a country. The extremes of both sides are terrible but my worry is only the right offer a choice from the extreme to the less extreme. My partner is a fan of democrats because they are the good guys (same stupid tribal issue as the UK) but they have Bernie, Hillary is burning and 3 guys who should go into business putting kids to sleep (we didnt know they existed until she did a search).
I seriously hope the left get some choices on their team and hopefully the more reasonable left and right can gather enough momentum to form an effective government. So far its drowned out by extremists.
Kims of NK (the only successful socialist country I know of),
I guess I'm missing something here. Define "successful". Word from various sources and media outlets seem to think his days are numbered because of his purge of the NK Elite. The ones left (including all the generals) are very nervous.
@ Mark 85
"I guess I'm missing something here. Define "successful". Word from various sources and media outlets seem to think his days are numbered because of his purge of the NK Elite. The ones left (including all the generals) are very nervous."
Successful in that it stands. Granted it stands on receiving regular aid, people starving to death and to terrified to do anything against the repressive regime but it is still standing unlike all the other socialist utopias. NK's days have always been numbered but then a load more of their population dies and they struggle on while building an airport.
It isnt a country I would want to live in though
The real problem is that most people can't tell Left leaning from Fascists in disguise....
As soon as the Mighty Media calls you out as a socialist (re: Fascist) it's over.
We all need the rights to overburden society with poverty as we work our laborers to death so that we can achieve the greatest highs of riches and gluttony. Our planet is forever doomed.
... will barely even get you to the start line...
When all was said and done, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, the two major party candidates for president in 2012, spent close to $1.12 billion -- not counting the millions more spent by the parties and outside groups. Overall, the presidential race cost more than $2.6 billion in that cycle.
https://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/
"Lessig announced his conditional candidacy, and a platform to take money out of US politics, in early August."
"Law professor and internet luminary Lawrence Lessig will run for the US Presidency after hitting his US$1million crowdfunding goal."
So he is going to run on a platform to "take money out of US politics...yet at the same time he "...stumped up US$1million in a crowdfunding campaign."
What am I missing here?
You're missing the fact that Lessig's money came from individual voters, not from huge corporations, large banks and arrogant oligarchs.
Also the fact that $1 million from a huge number of donors barely qualifies as "money," in a campaign to which just two individual donors (the Koch brothers) have pledged $1 billion.
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