The Folly of Working Through Channels

Wendy McElroy has been penning some wonderful essays lately.  Wendy adds to this body of thought provoking ideas in an essay titled Libertarianism as a numbers game, which buttresses my stance in regards to not voting.  From Wendy’s most recent essay.

What would have happened, do you think, if the likes of Paine and Jefferson had “gone through channels”? If they had petitioned the king, run for the local school board or a higher position, if they had tried to repeal the Stamp Act and other laws one-by-one. I suspect there would have been no America because there would have been no revolution, no vox populi repeal of government itself. Instead, the American revolutionaries went to the source of all real social change—the hearts and souls of men. They did the hard work and they showed how quickly a society could be turned around; it took something akin to 15 or 20 years for their ideas to create an expanse of freedom in the world.

How are you working to expand freedom?  Are you going through channels trod deep with futility, or individually acting, showing others that freedom is attainable through the action of individual men?

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