I get it. I do. And I agree that no other big issues can be truly addressed, until we fix the root cause. Our systems for collectively making choices (elections) are pretty broken. They are only responsive to money.
 
But. Lessig says we need to legislate some massive change. But why do we need to wait? Why would we expect congress to ever make such a decision? They won’t. But can’t we invent something just as effective without legislation?
 

Imagine: A community website for nominating a person in a district to primary a sitting congressperson. Anyone in the district can “run” in this online nomination system. And anyone in the district can “vote”, although alternative voting methods might be used (ranked choice, single transferrable vote). And importantly, anyone can put actual money into the pot. The winner of this virtual election gets all the money to mount an actual run against the incumbent. Lots of missing detail, but strikes me that if people had to put down money and pledge it to the winner of the online election, it could pump a lot of dollars toward the winner.