Lessig Blog post: (my emphasis)

But I will regret forever not having a real chance at the debates to press the one real issue that is before us as a democracy, and that the other candidates just are not addressing: At the core of our democracy there is a hole where the Framers meant there to be a Congress. That crippled and corrupted institution will block progress until it is fixed. We desperately need a politics that can talk about that, and begin to talk about how it could be fixed. That is not just “campaign finance reform.” That is not just about “getting money out of politics.” It is an agenda for reforming a failed institution, by building on the cross-partisan recognition there is that this critical part of our democracy is broken.

We need that issue to become central, because that is the only way that failed institution will ever be fixed. And fixing that failed institution is the only way we will ever have any any chance of addressing sensibly the long list of problems this nation must address.

This a hard point to make in the middle of a political party. Maybe it is a point better made outside of party primaries. We’ll see. For now, there’s just some sleep and time with the kids to think about. Seriously happy time ahead.