For years, American citizens across the political spectrum have cried out for change in Washington, and for years nothing has really changed about the way governments have operated. Our elected officials are ever more beholden to special interests and pockets of wealth than to an American democracy of, by, and for the people.

The Common Lot, the most recent film by Common Lot Productions, is a video essay that interrogates the concept of democracy of, by, and for the people, asking the seminal question for true political reform: can elective democracy actually represent the rich diversity of the American people?

To read more about The Common Lot, click here.