And this was starting with Nightmare Mode.
Method:
1: Recruited a bunch of hippies, because it's easy and they have lots of HRT.
2: Sent them to go raise money while I worked on my Tailor skill. Made half a dozen Death Squad uniforms.
3: Kidnapped some brainy conservatives (lab techs, college students, etc) with high INT scores.
4: Gang interrogated them (while wearing DS uniforms) and added them to the pool.
5: Sent hippies to another safehouse armed with guitars to go keep the money flowing in. Since they had no criminal records, they were effectively untouchable by The Man.
6: Spent time in University leveling up everyone's Psychology for a bit.
7: Went out in full suite of DS outfits armed with pistols. Kidnapped more conservatives, this time looking for influence - lawyers, hangin' judges, new anchors, etc.
8: Interrogated them all fast enough to turn them into sleepers.
9: Trained female LCS members in seduction. Scored dates with Soldiers, Agents, Police and Fireman. Kidnap, interrogate, more sleepers in exactly the right places.
10: Reign of kidnapping continues, but with a new policy: Super high INT targets are made to join the LCS.
11: Turn everyone into hackers to get their juice to 50% max without having to deal with combat. Juggled safehouses for a while, but luckily sleepers kept me one step ahead of The Man.
12: As member's juice got high enough, retired them into Writing for Newspapers.
13: Repeat 9 thru 11 until I have more writers than I know what to do with.
14: Infiltrate CIA office, steal data and expose it to push free speech agenda away from
C+.
15: Now that it is legal to actually write for the Liberal Guardian without bringing down the Firemen, do so.
16: Entire game is now simply a grind of kidnapping and converting high INT characters to turn into hackers & writers (hackers at one safehouse, writers in another to avoid dumping unwanted heat onto the Liberal Guardian printing press).
17: With over 30+ writers, all at 16+ writing skill all working for the Liberal Guardian, public opinion on every issue was slowly but surely steamrollered over to Elite Liberal in just a couple of years.
18: All sleepers sent to Snoop Around for material. When busted, they are added to the writer pool. I still have fifty times more dirt than I could ever hope to publish.
19: Kick back and watch the avalanche unfold.
20: No combat required.