The Romans discovered they could rule a client province by installing one its citizens as a quizzling, a puppet ruler, the people would accept that and generally fall in line. Before that they’d been trying to rule them with outside rulers and had nothing but revolts.
Maybe we discover what it is about human beings that causes them to accept oppression when it’s foisted upon them by the ‘in-group’ but not the out-group.
If we could discover that, it may be possible for us to change perceptions of who is part of the in-group and who isn’t, and by the foment resistance to internal oppression.
I think Marx actually achieved this exact thing by recasting society as social classes, the bourgeoise versus the proletariat or w/e. But, Marx’s categories were essentially true in feudal society’s and then misapplied to capitalist ones. We need not make up things like he did.
The truth is, we are oppressor and oppressed. Where this gets muddled is the idea that ‘we are the government.’ That idea lends legitimacy to all state actions, as if the man killed by a cop has committed suicide or something.
It seems the government control of schools and information means they will always have a major advantage on controlling who the in-group is perceived to be.
Therefore, libertarians won’t have a chance to reshape that view until that narrative becomes unsupportable by every-day reality. Meaning, sadly, once again, that the first chance for ideological realignment in the US can come only with a delegitimizing crisis, something much larger and worse than the '08 housing crash, which the intellectuals managed and shaped to their whim just fine.
It’s gonna have to be something life-threatening to the republic. A major financial crash, or the debt exploding, or the dollar devaluing–or WWIII.
Were we communists, and thereby not aligned to the NAP, that would mean fomenting revolution ourselves, creating that crisis ourselves. But we cannot do it, not positively. But we can do it in reverse, in NAP-friendly negative terms.
By that I mean we can leave and then create a society which is free, and which will brain-drain, talent-drain, and investment-drain the US and the rest of the world. A seastead would be a great way to do that.
The resulting drains will bring about the US fiscal crises much sooner than otherwise. The governments of the whole world is reliant on basic similarity to keep their population in check. Provide a way out and that functions as citizen-competition, which can have a very strong check on the policies of those other countries, because politicians will be forced to do a political calculation as to whether, for instance, raising taxes to X level will result in another million citizens migrating to a libertarian seastead 