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US Controlled By Smaller Cabal Than China

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May 23, 2018

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"Harvard Professor and liberal activist Larry Lessig continued a tour promoting his Mayday PAC at the Nantucket Project on Friday, suggesting America’s democracy is about as open and fair as that of Hong Kong.

Lessig is creating what he calls “the super PAC to end super PACs,” and hopes to raise millions of dollars to promote eight pro-campaign finance reform candidates (five announced, three still to come) in this year’s midterm elections.

Lessig compared the current state of voting in America to Hong Kong, where students have been protesting a new policy that will allow a small fraction of the population to choose the primary candidates in elections, after which point the general population will be able to vote. In other words, as Lessig put it, “it’s a two-stage process with a filter at the first stage.” The same was true, he says, in the American South after the Civil War, when black citizens could technically vote—but not until after the white primaries determined their options."*

Hosts: Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, Alonzo Bodden

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Cenk Uygur John IadarolaAlonzo BoddenHarvard ProfessorLarry LessigMayday PACNantucket ProjectHong Kong LessigHong Kong

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