The solution is to talk

The following 3 minute video is from a question and answer session with Milton Friedman at Cornell University in 1978:

Milton defines the problem as follows:

Everyone wants to cut down government provided that those things that he has in interest in are maintained.

His solution:

The solution is for people like you and me to talk, to ourselves and our fellows and to try to persuade our fellow men to be of like mind, to change the climate of opinion in these respects, to try to correct the political structure...