Lawrence Lessig Quote
But it is to say that a basic idea of a representative democracy—one that argues over fundamental choices of policy, through the battle between differently committed representatives—is not the reality of our democracy anymore. We’ve settled into what Francis Fukuyama calls a vetocracy, where change of almost any kind, whether from the Right or the Left, is practically always stopped.
Lawrence Lessig
But it is to say that a basic idea of a representative democracy—one that argues over fundamental choices of policy, through the battle between differently committed representatives—is not the reality of our democracy anymore. We’ve settled into what Francis Fukuyama calls a vetocracy, where change of almost any kind, whether from the Right or the Left, is practically always stopped.