Do you regularly write to your elected repesentatives? Good.
But do you know what is even better and more effective? Writing to people who put ideas into representatives heads! That means: their bureaucratic staff and best of all... academics.
Communicating directly to high-ranking academics is the best and most long-lasting method of influencing society. If you find finding out who of those to persuade too difficult (it is, they are quite cloistered), then simply keep an eye on media. Media invites their own celeb "intellectuals". You can't get media machine to suddenly invite right-wing thinkers, but you can plausibly hammer in seed of thought into one of their celeb academics plausibly overnight. This then flows to media.
Even if not, you can criticize the shit out of them simply by pointing out where they factually are incorrect. Let them know that they are being watched and that will put an end to most blatant agenda pushing.
I can safely assert that infulencing so-called journalists is completely fruitless simply because they are networked in such way that the only audience they have to please to stay employed are other journalists.
>That means: their bureaucratic staff and best of all... academics
This just inflates society's irrational idea that academics are in fact "smart."
If they can't think of the idea I send them they are not smart people and shouldn't be the "go to" for our representatives.
We need a letter writing campaign to remind our representatives that "academics" are easy to fool because of the information bubbles they create for themselves.
Smart people do not place themselves inside information bubbles willingly.
This might explain the sorry state of the world: relying on morons with degrees.