The reason we find ourselves so helpless in this fight is because our society's money has shackled us. Think about it: the rich only have power because people s

The reason we find ourselves so helpless in this fight is because our society's money has shackled us. Think about it: the rich only have power because people submit to their power. People accept their money to do harmful things because they can use that money to get whatever they want from almost anyone. This is the flaw in our money that makes our political system degrade from democracy to capitalism. Votes can be bought, so counting votes is a charade that disguises the fact that the tally of money on each side of an issue matters most. To fix this, we must fix our money. When someone spends money they got from wealthy people for manipulating our politics, the person who accepts it is fulfilling the promise the money held in the first place. We must refuse to empower money used in this way. As individuals, we must reject money in our own lives when it came from political manipulation so we can remove the incentive to participate in political manipulation. This is merit capitalism. The technology to make it work exists today, and it doesn't require the impossible task of winning votes in a Congress we can't afford to buy back from the rich. It requires tools to make it easy to reject dirty money and spreading the knowledge that rejecting dirty money is even possible. These are things that we can do. These are things that you can do. http://meritcapitalism.com http://meritcapitalism.com