Democracy's High Stakes

Pay 2 Play follows filmmaker John Ennis' quest to find a way out from under the "Pay 2 Play System," where politicians reward their donors with even larger sums from the public treasury — through contracts, tax cuts, and deregulation.  Along the way, he journeys through high drama on the Ohio campaign trail, uncovers the secret history of the game Monopoly, and explores the underworld of Los Angeles street-art on a humorous odyssey that reveals how much of a difference one person can make. Pay 2 Play is the layman’s guidebook to taking back our democracy.

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

"When tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands, then millions of people are murdered, they become a kind of faceless blur, a numbing statistic in the public's mind. By contrast, the specific images of famous Rembrandt or Picasso paintings were personally familiar to many Americans — and that familiarity engendered the sympathy needed to bring about intervention." -Rafael Medoff, The Monuments Men Shows How America Saved Paintings While Letting Jews Die