Put democracy back on course?  Really?  The
Republican impulse to replace democracy with a
theocracy and putting the power of government in
the hands of the corporate wealthy ruling class, will
have to be overcome is the first step. 

More liberal democrats elected to Congress would
go a long way toward that destination.  Democracy,
remember?

I agree that the energy newly found in the current
grass roots locomotion has now become an immutable
way of thinking that shall give the people their solid
balance from which to influence change.  Lessig has to
include himself as one of the “pundits.” 

Lessig thinks it should have taken less than three
years for Obama to change what has been a solid
callousness in government on an almost countless
number of terribly big issues, and he lists them. 
His, and other’s, expectation is unreasonable. 
Why?  Because this country has a Congress that is
dysfunctional and a president cannot get legislation
done where one party can block everything he tries to
do.  Lessig does not acknowledge that the Republican
party has been the party of mass obstruction. It is
gong to take a decade to put upright what has been
disheveled by the previous anti-democratic politics
of the Republicans.  He is just as hidebound as most. 
He is in love with his thesis and can’t see the bigger
picture that involves a mega factored complexity that
must be seen at one time.  Too many see only one part
and rant and rail about what is near and dear to their
heart.  The problem needs more global thinking and
ways to fix each and every broken part takes more
time than ordinary minds can imagine.