I think it could work, but the trick would be getting enough people on board with the idea. I lean conservative, so the politics part would just about speak for itself, and we the people would need a political party that would defend our Constitution, not seek to alter it.

You can't use the currency of the country you want to influence. You need to establish an alternative means of commerce. Legislation is equally impossible. Change the government.

WE sure need to do something!

the king is dead. long live the king

I think the Wolf-PAC crowd is fighting to get money (i.e. lobby groups) out of politics. I've heard Wolf-PAC mentioned in the news that I listen to for, at least, close to a year. But its sad looking at their petition page: 70 signatures with their goal of 5000.

[wolf-pac.com]

From their website:
Goal: To save democracy in the United States by getting a much needed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will establish elections which are free of the corrupting influence of money in our political system and fair enough that any citizen can run for office, not just millionaires and their allies.

The trouble is that wealth is so unevenly distributed throughout the world that a very small percentage of people (who tend to want to preserve the status quo) own more than half the wealth. Therefore, even if all the rest of us pooled everything we've got, we'd still be unable to outbid them. That's why when the "1%" really over-step the boundaries, as they seem to be doing in many nations right now, the only way to change things is revolution.

Not to rain on your parade, but political lobbyists are bought and paid for by big corporations with deep pockets. You want to compete with that?

That is what is happening now. The problem is that we do not have the money that greedy big corporations and extremely wealthy people.

It would be pretty hard to outbid the Koch bros., unfortunately...