A Parallel Society: Opting Out of the Progressive Game

We’re never going to win so why not opt out all together?

For the last 100+ years philosophical republicans have been chained to a progressive world vastly different from what the founders created.

Instead of a republic what we got was an administrative state led by increasingly authoritarian presidents.  

This is the world progressives wanted.  

Progressives for instance, particularly Woodrow Wilson, reconceptualized the presidency.  Under Wilson the president became the popular leader of a subservient Congress.

Likewise Wilson used the administrative state to supposedly carry out the will of the people.  

What Wilson forgot, however, is that individuals in an open market are perfectly capable of carrying out their own will.  

But by ignoring the true source of the people’s power -- themselves the individual -- Wilson claimed the individual's power for greedy government bureaucrats like himself.

And at the time no one noticed. 

Because no one read or paid attention to Wilson’s foreign political philosophy -- which he aped from the German philosopher Hegel-- he was able to get away with it.  The republican political philosophy of the founders had been mostly forgotten.

However with the vantage of hindsight concerned republicans should opt out of Wilson’s tyrannical regime that continues today.

This can only be done by the creation of a parallel society.

In a parallel society philosophical republicans and other lovers of liberty would refuse to empower government by disengaging from their traditional means of control.

This means rejecting public schools.

It means abandoning the current university credentialing system for vocational schooling, self education, and lifelong learning.

It means electing officials that won’t fund the administrative state or government dependency.

And it means rejecting the state sponsored corporate media complex.

But it also means creating.  The creation of a parallel society as an alternative to the current progressive world we live in means resurrecting private charities, supporting independent media creators, creating new privately funded schools, and being a generous patron of the arts.

In short, creating a parallel society means voluntarily clawing back the power government stole from us as sovereign citizens.  Only then can we fully participate in society instead of being despairing pseudo-citizens of a long forgotten republic.

Zigmund Reichenbach holds a M.A. in Philosophy from West Chester University.  You can find him commenting on news stories of national and state interest at his Facebook page Zigmund Reichenbach -- Commentator or you can follow him on Twitter @zreichenbach1.  Additionally you can find episodes of the weekly Sunday podcast that airs via Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter at this link here. 

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