I'm working my way through Thomas Sowell's book, Intellectuals and Society. Many of the points he articulates reminds me of the importance of acquainting and reacquainting ourselves with the first principles of freedom and freedom in the market.
Freedom makes sense; convoluted policies that suppress freedom do not make sense. Society is broadly trained to accept bad policy. Hence, we instinctively want to be free but reflexively reject free market capitalism.
Below is a very good video to explain why. Here is a book to counter the trend: Economics In One Lesson