It's nice to elect the right people, but that isn't the way you solve things. The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the… - Milton Friedman

The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.

Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised. In addition, by dispersing power, the free market provides an offset to whatever concentration of political power may arise. The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

The reality is that if you look at every program that the government has adopted in the direction of extending its scope, it took an enormous propaganda campaign by special propaganda groups to get those measures passed. There was no underlining public demand for those measures. On the contrary, the demand had to be created, it had to be developed, it had to be produced. And it was created, it was developed, it was produced, by people… who sincerely wanted to see an expansion in the scope of government.

Make the acvocacy of radical causes sufficiently remunerative, and the supply of advocates will be unlimited.