Well you go ahead and “change the culture” one “average person off the street” conversation at a time, and everyone else who cares about seeing more liberty in their own lifetime will put themselves in positions with ability to dismantle that government power directly and we’ll see who gets more done.
You say people trust government more than their neighbors. Wouldn’t it be much easier if their neighbors were the ones in government? Is that not a much faster way to move the process forward?
As Gary North outlines, you “take a long view of the battle” and a cadre must target the actual crucial battlefield [you know, one that actually exists in the real world]: the public schools:
“Local Ron Paul fanatics need to do the groundwork for the next 8 years: mastering the basics of winning elections, dealing with entrenched bureaucrats, cutting budgets, and running local school boards. They must gain experience in preparation for their takeover of the national Republican party when the federal government is forced to default. When Washington becomes Athens – and it will – this new leadership will emerge at the national level. It will have this message: Ron Paul was right.”
You see Gary North doesn’t disagree with the notion that the public attitude toward government needs to change. (Nor do I). As far as I can tell, he and I both consider that a given. It’s obvious. What we’re concerned about is (a) the best way to go about doing that, and (b) what these right-thinking people do.
Again, useless platitudes and metaphors are great when you want to sound intelligent and refined on an Internet forum, but as I said they’re basically useless in actually getting things done. Which is why they don’t interest me.
As an example of what does interest me (and what I would think would interest anyone else interested in rolling back government), see that article. He offers an actual proposal for things that would actually be done…a method for the change. He doesn’t just say utterly useless fluff like “I don’t put my faith in politicians. I prefer the battleground of ideas.”
In fact he even gets farther into it and in that very article links to an actual recommended strategy for accomplishing the public school reform he brings up.
Again, if anyone has any ideas that are better than this kind of thing, and can offer a proposal for how government would be more quickly, effectively, and efficiently rolled back with little to no activity to that end taking place inside the government itself, I’m all ears. But again, so far I’ve heard nothing but “tell people the truth and then sit back and watch what happens.”