I have not proposed or recommended trying to drag people whining and moaning into liberty.
That is neither possible nor necessary. It would be a complete waste of time and effort. As I said earlier:
That goes for "dragging" as well as for "persuading" - and for the same reasons I gave before.
Most people are not ideological. They are not motivated or animated by ideological concerns, and they never will be. When it comes to tyranny vs. liberty (or any other grand ideological issue), most people are just inert ballast - they simply don't matter. Put tyranny on their plates, and they will eat it. Some (perhaps even many) may grouse and grumble and piss and moan about it - but they'll eat it. They will tolerate it (even if begrudgingly), and will contribute no significant effort to altering or abolishing it. Put liberty on their plates, and ... well ... the same. If any difference will be made, it will be made by motivated, active minorities.
IOW: Minorities lead, majorities follow. The world always has been and always will be ruled by (active) minorities, never by (passive) majorities.
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And its a damn good thing, too, because it means we don't need to persuade (or "drag") most people over to our side. If we did, we'd be doomed. Fortunately, we don't need most people - we just need
enough people (however many that may be - and it need not necessarily be even a plurality, let alone a majority). Unfortunately, the same thing goes for the enemies of liberty - and as of the moment, their relative minority is more active and potent than ours (though that might be changing, as reaction mounts to their increasingly overweening bull$#@!).
[1] It may occur that a ruling or influential minority happens to implement and enforce policies that the majority (i.e., "most people") find agreeable - but such approval by the majority is incidental. Such policies are never implemented because they have majority support, but only because the minority that actively seeks to enforce those policies desires them and is potent enough to actually implement them. (Majoritarian democracy is just a mechanism for disguising or excusing this dynamic.)
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