@JJ: OK, I think I see where we’re talking past each other.
You’re concerned about what are we (upholders of liberty) going to do rather than just what are we going to say. I’m not very concerned about that because it doesn’t really matter. If you took everyone who is even remotely connected and assenting to one or more aspects of the LvMI, you couldn’t even fill a football stadium. Needless to say, we are a drop in the ocean of the other 350 million Americans.
So, I have two words for you: force multiplication.
I am more interested in getting 100 million Americans to do a tiny thing in opposition to the State than I am in a heroic effort of our football stadium of dedicated upholders of the ideals of liberty. The only way to get them to do something is to change their minds. I am much more interested in changing the minds of 100 million Americans in such a way that they will do a tiny thing in opposition to the State than I am in making a heroic effort in opposition to the State or even getting the football stadium of upholders of liberty to take on an organized, heroic effort in opposition to the State. What I’d rather see is some kind of meta-organization of that football stadium that extends what LvMI is already doing and turns us into a kind of populist megaphone for the LvMI which, in turn, will spread the message more widely. Look at the number of views of George Ought to Help. How many of those people do you think have ever heard of Mises? 1%? Half a percent? I bet not even that.
Please check out the last section of that Hoppe lecture I posted above (the whole lecture is totally awesome but the strategy stuff is at the end, beginning around 54:45) - these ideas aren’t mine, I’m pretty much just parroting Dr. Hoppe. You should listen to Hoppe himself since he explains it all much more precisely.
Clayton -