Demoneycracy

Most modern democracies hold themselves up as based on Jefferson's "self-evidence" of each person's equality and the idea of "one person - one vote."  Yet, we are all increasingly aware that it is much more like "one dollar - one vote."  Power resides primarily with those who can influence policy-makers with their money (the current proxy for power and control over others and the earth).  This is merely another form of the all-too-familiar exertion of one's will for its own sake.  It is self-evidently illegitimate power, based as it is on the contingent and ethically vacuous proxy we call money.

The urgent priority of our time is for those who have this power to divest themselves of it in favour of finally realizing the robust dream of democracy.