They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy Audiobook (Free)

“This immediate book offers not only a clear-eyed explanation of the forces that broke our politics, but a thoughtful and, yes, patriotic vision of how exactly we produce a government that’s truly simply by and for the people.”-DAVID DALEY, bestselling writer of Ratf**ked and Unrigged

In the vein of On Tyranny and exactly how Democracies Die, the bestselling writer of Republic, Lost argues with insight and urgency our democracy no longer represents us and implies that reform is both necessary and possible.

America’ about They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy s democracy is within turmoil. Along many proportions, a single flaw-unrepresentativeness-has detached our authorities in the people. So that as a people, our fractured partisanship and ignorance on vital issues drive our market leaders to stake out ever more severe positions.

In THEY DON’T REALLY Represent Us, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig charts the way in which the essential institutions of our democracy, including our press, respond to thin interests instead of to the requirements and wishes of the country’s citizenry. However the blame will not just rest with “them”-Washington’s politicians and power agents, Lessig argues. The issue is also “us.” “We individuals” are more and more uninformed about the issues, while ubiquitous political polling exacerbates the issue, reflecting and normalizing our ignorance and feeding it back into the system as representative of our will.

What we are in need of, Lessig contends, is some reforms, from governmental institutions to the public itself, including:

A move immediately to open public campaign funding, leading to more representative candidatesA reformed Electoral University, that provides the President grounds to represent America being a wholeA federal government standard to end partisan gerrymandering in the states A radically reformed SenateA federal penalty about states that don’t secure with their people the same freedom to voteInstitutions that empower the people to speak in an informed and deliberative wayA soul-searching and incisive study of our failing politics culture, this nonpartisan call to arms speaks to every citizen, supplying a far-reaching platform for reform that could save our democracy and make it work for all those.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.