Excellent topic! Thank you!
I couldn't agree more — they are our best, if not our only, allies in this.
Perhaps sharing a few simple facts with them over beers would spark the old gray matter a little.
They should have an understanding of the transgressions against Natural Law: murder, rape, theft*, trespass, and coercion. Tell them that the main reason our species continues to experience a systemic and growing loss of freedom is that we collectively do not understand OWNERSHIP, and we continue to commit and condone THEFT. They should realize that everyone has the exact SAME rights. No one has any more or less rights than anyone else. Since rights are not created by humanity, and are the birth-right of humanity, gifted to us by the Creator of the Universe, no human being or group of human beings is actually capable of "granting" rights to anyone else, nor is any human being capable of "revoking" rights from anyone else. By now it should be dawning on them that there is more to serving and protecting than following orders decreed from the top down.
* they all boil down to theft, really
"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul."
— Mahatma Gandhi
