you start or fund a think tank that writes policy proposals, or a media organization that advocates your views
Or you run "money primaries", financially filtering the menu of candidates before democratic voting. Or you pay/lobby for (non-democratic) judicial appointments, which is a strategy that's been openly pursued since 1971: https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/blog/powell-memo.pdf
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I argue against this here: https://borretti.me/article/on-vulgar-materialism
Of course I don't expect a single post to erase a huge divergence in worldview about the relationship between money and power, but that's my argument.
Or you run "money primaries", financially filtering the menu of candidates before democratic voting. Or you pay/lobby for (non-democratic) judicial appointments, which is a strategy that's been openly pursued since 1971: https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/blog/powell-memo.pdf