Contrarian Republic: The Very Establishment.

From the very establishment of the new lands of America by Europeans, the first people on this fresh and exciting area were in large part contrarians.  The initial waves of immigrants from Europe differed in major ways from their brethren, primarily on religious matters. Regardless, they were the first contrarians of the New World.  As with the development of any group of people over time, unique ideas began to find their ways into government.  From the writings of Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau, the Founding Fathers struck out from the traditional models of European government to pursue a new form of government in the style of a democratic Republic.  While people can argue the merits of such an endeavor, the Founders made a great go the whole situation; their success is apparent with the status of the United States in the world today.  The debates can rage on about the impact of government on the development of the new Country, but the simple reality is the Constitution allowed for contrarians to thrive and excel in a free society without fear of retribution from government, protection by government from other members of society, and freedom and liberty of the individual from their physical and mental chains of the past.

The history of the United States further compounds the contrarian mindset through the Civil War.  Although Lincoln was not original in his ideas against slavery and was one of many devoted in the unity of the Union, Lincoln was special in his singular drive to take contrary ideas and make them the standard for society.  This would be the same actions taken by Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Wars.  These leaders took sometimes unpopular ideas and made them into American policy for generations to follow.  Again, one can argue the merits of their actions, but the reality still remains that a strong streak of contrarian blood ran through their veins.  One could further make the claim that while much of the world is content or at least tolerant of control over their lives by government, many of the immigrants to the United States have a contrarian belief of freedom, liberty, and a desire to achieve to unrestricted heights in a free society.

From this rich past in America, the idea of the Contrarian Republic was born.  Our goal is not to write great works of literature or journalism, but to allow for different ideas to have an outlet to the outside world.  But we caution those writing to us for publication.  We are not looking for blind followers or dogmatic writers.  That would be against the contrarian nature.  Contrarian does not mean negative, nasty, or argumentative for the sake of argument.  To the members of the Contrarian Republic, the term stands for everything good in the world, the freedom to voice one’s opinions to the same world in the hopes of influencing to our thoughts.  To aid in this endeavor, we will be taking articles from various writers, creating a blogging area, along with a section called News of the Opposite.  We look forward over the years to grow the number of writers, readers, and impact on our society.  Our only request is to be responsible, respective, and contrarian in nature.  Thank you for your support of our Contrarian Republic.