I'm not a Christian, nor do I go around attacking anyone's religious beliefs, but I always tell my close Christian friends that they are compelled by scripture to be ready to defend their beliefs, and that means devoting time to reading scripture and trying to understand it. If God wrote this book, you should probably be reading it because it's important. Same thing with politics. It has a meaningful impact on your life, you should understand it.
Everyone ignores the things that matter most. I'd say we've "become" complacent, but I think we've always been this way.
I think the problem is not that most people are stupid or weak, but that they're just not very philosophical. Few people are even thinking about how dangerous it is that the executive branches of virtually every country on the planet have put their constituents under lockdown, with zero approval of the legislature. Why do we even have legislatures at this point? Where is the balance of power? And even worse, most legislatures will happily absolve themselves of their responsibilities here because they don't want the heat that comes with it. Try explaining that to an average person. It's not even on their radar.
It's to the point that in the past few years I've been completely incapable of having a normal conversation with most people. What the fuck do people even talk about now that there's nothing on the fucking television?
I get that jews generally align left, and Israel has done some pretty dirty, hostile shit to the Western world (like stealing weapons-grade uranium from Europe and the US) but I find all this antisemitic conspiracy stuff to be a huge distraction, and it only de-legitimizes what we're trying to do here. Want to get us all labeled nazis? You're doing it.
You should probably familiarize yourself with the voting records of these people you’re seeking to oust. I'm not a big Crapo fan (in fact I've met the guy and wasn't impressed) but I believe he's a standard Trumpian archetypal senator.
FA Hayeks Road to Serfdom is a prescient and cutting critique of socialism, I think almost every generation can apply it to their own time. Builds well on arguments he made in The Fatal Conceit, which was a lengthy takedown of centrally planned economies, the arrogance of experts, and the human inability to fathom or control complex systems.
I feel completely the opposite. Property taxes effectively mean you never actually own anything, you're just renting it.
Sales taxes are the most elegant, since they capture all of a population, even illegals, and can scale with luxury items. Income taxes scale too but wealthier people make most of their money through financial instruments and have more ways of escaping even capital gains.