You can't directly go from here to there. The population has lost it's belief or even understanding for the concept of "freedom."
You are getting caught up in a philosophical debate rather than a "winning the war" strategy. Theory is all fine and good, but at some point you have to concede that abstract ideas don't stand up to physical reality.
Hear hear!!!
Excellent...
Balderdash!
The road to liberty is to found by ... (wait for it)...the pursuit of liberty! Utilitarianism is a morally bankrupt philosophy and a justification for government totalitarianism. For a moral and religious people a smaller government will provide the conditions for the blessings of liberty. A benevolent dictator is still a dictator.
Power of government is like Tolkien's Ring of Power.
It is far more powerful than I ever dared to think at first, so powerful that in the end it would utterly overcome anyone of mortal race who possessed it. It would possess him."
--- The Lord of the Rings