In the face of a breathless and narrative-toeing media, you can only win by using the same tools as they use.<p>You can&#x27;t fight fire with fire - the more loudly you decry these policies the more rapidly you alienate moderates and hard-liners alike. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.<p>Rather, I think change has to come from one (or both) of two places.<p>Firstly, inarguable grass roots initiatives, such as crowd-sourced direct democracy, which alter the fundamental structure (I.e. That nation states and representative governance are the only way to go) upon which arguments rest.<p>The other is to give your opponents enough rope with which to hang themselves - to which end the snooper charter may eventually play. If this government put forth a statement decrying the UN, moderates may scratch their heads and wonder. Hard-liners will join in, as they have against human rights, but moderates will be turned off.<p>Either way, this war (for it <i>is</i> war) must be fought in the battlefield of minds, and with subtlety. The most powerful idea is the one that you think is your own.