Larry Lessig is out on Medium with an explainer about campaign finance reform group MayDay’s shift in tactics:

This means we need to push the fight further back in the cycle of the elections. The focus needs to be less partisan and so more focused on primaries in safe seats. Even better, the focus needs to be less about the election fight and more about citizens persuading incumbents to sign on to reform months before an election.

But equally important (at least to me) is that Lessig is beginning to recognize that a key part of Lessig’s argument is about political equality (and not (just) a type of “corruption).  There were signs of it on our panel at Fordham last week. And now there’s this:

That point is obvious to most, but what’s missed by most is this: We can, in fact, change it. A single statute changing the way elections are funded would radically change the inequality of the current system.

Just think about that point for a second. When civil rights leaders were pressing for the law to recognize (finally) the equality of people on the basis of race, or sex, or sexual orientation, no one imagined that a single statute would change everything. Martin Luther King, Jr., fought for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and then the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but he didn’t believe the problem of racism and inequality would just disappear because of those laws. Racism is a pathology in the DNA of a culture. You don’t wake up one day no longer a racist. It takes generations to rip that disease from society, and to remake it as equal. It is a long, hard fight….

Nothing real is possible until we achieve this equality. It is time we do.