What would you do if you were Larry Lessig?

This is Larry Lessig.

It appears a hugely daunting question of what he should do next.

How daunting is revealed by some of the things you would probably review in trying to answer the question.

You would consider whether you should campaign for Bernie Sanders, who has become very publicly identified with getting big money out of politics. If he is not the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton has a plank in her platform re Campaign finance reform, and possibly you would have influence about that by campaigning for Hillary Clinton.

You would consider MAYDAY.US, the organization you started in 2014, having the goal of electing a reform minded Congress by 2016. You would ask yourself what you think are the prospects for MAYDAY's efforts at this point.

You would consider what the prospects would be if you ran for President as an independent or third party candidate.

You would look at historical precedents, including the Presidential runs of George Wallace, Ross Perot, and Ralph Nader.

You would survey the status, sizes and platforms of the numerous minority political parties in the United States. A good start for information and Internet links could be  Ballotpedia List of political parties in the United States and Wikipedia List of political parties in the United States.

You would review the platforms and activities of the political parties to determine which would present the best potential for melding with your plan of achieving enactment of the Citizen Equality Act of 2017 (as that plan might be modified by you in the changed circumstances of your not running for President as a Democrat).

Probably you would look closely at the Green Party and its Four Pillars-Ten Key Values .

Although Coffee Party USA does not appear on the Ballotpedia and Wikipedia lists, you would probably look at that party's activities and its End State Goals.

You would consider the onerous ballot access difficulties if you tried to run as an independent or third party candidate.

You would survey the organizations that have sprung up in the past several years, such as MoveToAmend, Represent.Us, WolfPAC, NHRebellion, and Stamp Stampede, as well as MAYDAY, and which have attracted a lot of support and interest, much of it in reaction to the Citizens United decision in 2010.

You would consider how these organizations have disparate focii for their efforts.

Among them, MoveToAmend has been pressing for a specific constitutional amendment saying corporations are not people and money is not speech. MoveToAmend's strategy has been to build pressure from the bottom up, in the form of getting local governing bodies and the like to pass resolutions urging the adoption of their constitutional amendment.

WolfPAC is seeking a Free and Fair Elections Amendment to the constitution. WolfPAC's method is the targeting of state legislatures to get them to call for a convention of the states.

Represent.Us is seeking to end corruption nationally by getting local governing bodies to pass anti-corruption laws that meet the standards of the American Anti-Corruption Act.

You would consider the successes that are beginning to be achieved at the state and local level, including in Maine and Seattle in this past Tuesday's elections. See Maine, Seattle Pave Next Path For Campaign Finance Reform.

A commentator in the Nonprofit Quarterly is already urging you to dedicate yourself to reform at state and local levels. See Lessig’s Out of the 2016 Race: Here’s His Next Campaign Finance Reform Job.

The foregoing makes for a lot to think about in trying to decide what you would do if you were Larry Lessig, and there would be a lot more as you proceeded with your thinking.

I would have to do a lot more thinking before I pretended to decide what I would do if I was Larry Lessig.

There is a google group of Lessig volunteers who have been discussing what he should do. You might want to join the discussion at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/team-lessig-volunteers/WxFd33P0zPc.