I found a good article about how we, as libertarians, should conduct ourself to help mold the world in our favor. Essentially, we should preach our message to the "remnant". This remnant is a hidden group of people that are broken up and decentralized, but have nevertheless all come to the correct ideas. They don't know each other and are largely silent, but they exist
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“Ah,” the Lord said, “you do not get the point. There is a Remnant there that you know nothing about. They are obscure, unorganized, inarticulate, each one rubbing along as best he can. They need to be encouraged and braced up because when everything has gone completely to the dogs, they are the ones who will come back and build up a new society; and meanwhile, your preaching will reassure them and keep them hanging on. Your job is to take care of the Remnant, so be off now and set about it.”
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The line of differentiation between the masses and the Remnant is set invariably by quality, not by circumstance. The Remnant are those who by force of intellect are able to apprehend these principles, and by force of character are able, at least measurably, to cleave to them. The masses are those who are unable to do either.
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In other words, we should encourage the natural elites of society to continue moving forward. Don't preach your message hoping to change the masses, do it in hope of inspiring a select few people to pick up their own mission to advance liberty. Doctors, lawyers, CEO's, and people with institutional power are the people we aim to move! We preach our message publicly but do so with respect and conviction because the people we need to convince are the ones with power and the ones with the wherewithal to act on these ideas
https://mises.org/mises-daily/isaiahs-job
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