TED Talk: The Power Of Lobbyists, The American Corruption

The theme of this specific TED talk can be categorized as inspirational and persuasive. This talk exposed how a slice of wealthy Americans has managed to take political control over the our voices with the money and time they fund to bring their parties back in power. It was a pleasant and inspirational talk about how we as Americans have the ability to change how politics work. We have the power to bring politics back in the hands of the majority of the citizens.
From this TED talk, three main points are learned: , The power of lobbyists, The American Corruption, and how we as citizens can change this. Lessig has pointed out that the American corruption exists because the ultimate power of the people have been taken away by the wealthiest

0.1% of the United States. Our republic has taken dependance upon its funders and they have become the voice of 300 million Americans. When general election comes into play, we are limited in our choices, we are technically voting for who has been ‘funded’ well in the previous election. From Module 1, we have learned that the economy funds the politics when speaking of our national budgeting in Fiscal Policy. Today, I was alarmed with how much money really goes in towards supporting a party in the race to the White House. We also learned that the American bi-partisanship is divided into Right and Left, but the fact that this corruption exists, both sides are being blocked equally. Lessig points out that although this corruption works against both Right and Left, the fact that system is heavily dependent on the tiniest slice of their main funders makes this a dangerously democracy-destroying type of corruption. At this point, it is no longer a democracy ruled by the people, it is the democracy ruled by the wealthiest funders who are in to only invest for their private interests. From both the text and the article, we have taken notice of how Democrats have been earning close ties with Wall Street for campaign-funding purposes. Lately, this trend has taken an influence to Democrats to loosen the government regulations on their financial portion as well.
Overall, it was just alarming to see how a percentage of Americans are controlling campaigns how essentially controlling how the American democracy works based on the more digits they fund. To change all that, we should start adopting the small dollar elections to distribute the power back to the bigger slice of American citizens. Lessig made an excellent point about how we all should, in our hearts, have that love to make this republic our republic again, because we have that power to make it happen if are passionate about it.