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Even if by some miracle you could make it happen, "taking money out of politics" won't work, either, unless you somehow include, e.g., AARP, both public- and private-sector unions, and every "underrepresented" minority voting bloc, not to mention anyone rich enough to own a media company. That isn't remotely an exhaustive list, and in any case I fear that the savviest special interest groups are far too clever to be stopped by mere campaign finance reform. Unfortunately, the root of the problem is one level deeper than Lessig, et al., are prepared to dig.


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