There are no magic bullets. Only tedious hard work.
1- Become a realist. Do not support quixotic movements like WikiLeaks that will only drive government to greater levels of secrecy and force them to greater measures of control over the one FREE worldwide communication system that ever existed.
2- Support with time & money, true grassroots movements that have a chance to make a real difference for freedom like the Teaparty movement.
3- Develop and espouse a conservatism that does not settle for a little less liberalism than the Democrats promote, but father one that seeks to ROLL BACK the bureacracy.
4- Support with time & money those running for office who share your values.
5- Send regular email to your state & federal legislators articulating your values and either praising or condemning them for their support of same.
6- Have an email list of your moderate and conservative friends and regularly email them links to articles that support conservative values.
7- Have a separate email list of your liberal friends or acquaintances and once a week email them a personal comment or two and a link by common sense and polite conservatives. Walter Williams and Michael Medved are 2 of my favorites for this.
8- Have a Facebook account and develop F/B friends. Once a day or every other day post a link to a Williams or Medved type conservative article. Mine has over 3,000 friends.
9- Develop a Twitter account and work it the same as your Facebook. Mine has over 85,000 connections.
10- Encourage all your conservative friends to do the same things you are.
Freedom is never created top down but always bottom up, one idea at a time, mind to mind and person to person. It is always grassroots driven and when successful it is always achieved by putting principled, grassroots leaders in power.
Zero's latest apparent cave in on the Bush tax cuts, if he sticks to it, may be the harbinger of his weakness of character to follow through on the ultra-liberal agenda of the Democratic hard left. I hope so 'cause that would be an indication that many of my fears will not be realized. Unless the firestorm from the left tempers any metal he has into the resolve one would need for that kind of takeover.
Even so the above is a blueprint for action to make a real difference.
Items 2 through 10, already done and have been doing for years. Additionally, I publish an online newspaper that reports on state/local matters from a taxpayer viewpoint.
Glad to see you think that all is not lost and there is hope.