Lessig: I'm Trying to Run for President, but the Democrats Won't Let Me

``A "democracy" in which 400 families give 50 percent of the money in campaigns is not American democracy. It is a banana republic democracy. A "democracy" in which candidates for Congress spend 30 percent to 70 percent of their time raising money from the tiniest fraction of the 1 percent is not a democracy that could be responsive to the people. It is a democracy that will be responsive to those funders only. What America needs right now is to recognize -- all of America, not just the Democrats -- that until we fix this democracy, none of the urgent and important policies pushed by these politicians is possible.''