Watch Jennifer Lawrence Break Down How America's Political System Has Failed

By Lauren Rearick


Jennifer Lawrence believes the current state of the American government is damaged, and she wants you to help hold politicians accountable so that they fix it.


The actor and political activist has teamed up with RepresentUs — a nonprofit company working to end corruption in government — to star in a short film titled “Unbreaking America: Solving the Corruption Crisis.” The clip, which MTV News is premiering today, describes why Lawrence, a RepresentUs board member, believes that America is “facing a total political system failure.”


In the film, Lawrence and RepresentUs’s director Josh Silver explore how America’s continued unhappiness with government has nothing to do with an individual’s political party affiliation. “I know it’s hard to talk about politics these days,” the actor says. “But look, the government is ours. We pay for it, so it needs to work for us, and now, it doesn’t.”


As she points out, current politicians spend much of their time in office raising cash to fund their political campaigns. And with special interest groups and billionaires providing substantial financial support to members of federal government, RepresentUs believes that politicians are frequently swayed to vote in favor these allocating most of them of funds.


For the video, Lawrence explains that any time government is looking out for the interest of billionaires and special interest groups, the needs of the average American voter are going did not think about. “It’s affecting nearly every other supply Residents of the
U.S. Care about, from the economy to the debt; healthcare to education,” she says.


So what can we do to prepare changes and demand that our voices are heard? RepresentUs and Lawrence believe the response starts with you, so they’re calling on American people to support the passage of the American Anti-Corruption Act. It’s the target of RepresentUs that if their movement secures enough support at local and state levels, that changes could then take place on a federal level.


As Lawrence explained, “We believe the government should work for every American” – not just the ones with deep enough pockets.