How do you sell liberty to a state worker?

[Kludge]

Tell them they'll make more as private contractors. That will get them to switch. Then trim the fat after the change. Done.

What of the social workers, corrections officers who sustain themselves because of the "War On Drugs," the unnecessary bureaucrats?

Many will simply be unemployed if they tried to do as they do with a bloated government.

 

[ChaosControl]

If one earns their livelihood from the state (federal, state or local), how are they supposed to want to vote or fight for liberty if it means they would lose their job? I think this is our number one stumbling block. We can just tell them, "yes, we know you'd lose your source of income, but liberty would be best for the greater good". Sound familiar? We don't want to become our own worst enemy.

Well you could just promote localism and show them how the federal government is bad. They don't have to lose their job, they could support local government and oppose federal. Remember liberty doesn't exclusively mean absence of all government, if the local community wants certain things they should be allowed to have them without a federal government preventing them from such. I don't really see a contradiction of a local government worker opposing the federal government and big government in general while still supporting some degree of local government.

If they are a federal worker, then that doesn't work, but it should be fine for state/local workers. Although even if they are a federal worker you could still attempt to get them to support lesser government, they will just continue to support some degree of federal intervention, I suppose it depends what their job is.