When we consider the market for new parallel private governance structures, we should take a moment to play devil's advocate and consider the typical strawman arguments presented by people who reflexively abhor the notion of private government. These are the people who go on and on about our "sacred democracy" but cannot conceive of the truly democratizing elements of the marketplace, what Mises called a "daily plebiscite."

In large part, "privatization" has become a boogieman for progressives, who treat the concept as a sinister plot for big corporations to run our lives. This is the mentality we must overcome.

Jeff Deist