Right Wingers and Ayn Rand.
A slight rant, I suppose, but one conservative saintly reference that spills my beans is Ayn Rand.
Heard a woman on CNN recently, I think, mutter about how her parents were "liberals" but when she read Ayn Rand, she heard the call and has been conservative ever since. They've turned Rand into the patron saint of free market religion and a perverse 'screw you pal it's all about me' individualism that has nothing to do with modern oligarchic, authoritarian reactionary conservatism of the modern age.
I read and studied Rand in my political philosophy days at Uni in the 70s. Simplistic drivel, I thought. It's not her they identify with, but the image of her, the myth, like they do with Reagan, or Jesus, for that matter.
I've heard this kind of "Randian" nonsense too often over the years. It's a simplistic kind of individualism that is especially American in nature, but a perverse form of American individualism.
I suppose hard wired conservative people look for intellectual props to validate their view.
Anyone agree or disagree?
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I agree with CeliaVL - Atlas Shrugged was confusing, especially true for a kid with dyslexia. I believe that many who claim that Rand was a "true conservative" really did not understand hr philosophy of government or the governed. What most do not remember is that Rand was an agnostic if not an atheist.
SageDave
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Nov 21, 2018
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I thought 'Atlas Shrugged' was a very confused book and not nearly thought through enough. I have read some of her essays, too, and found them better thought out and more interesting, but I suspect most of the people who claim to follow her theories haven't really read her. I can see that self-centred isolationists would be drawn to her.
CeliaVL
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Nov 20, 2018
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Years ago I started to read Atlas Shrugged, ...attemptwd to get into it twice but coul dn't stomach it. Waste of my time. A Coursey Wikipedia reading is all A. Rand deserves or will get from me. I would no sooner read a whole book of hers than I would of Ann Coulter.
MikeInBatonRouge
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Nov 20, 2018
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By far the worst DVD I ever picked up was Rand's Atlas Shrugged Part II. What a stillborn work of Libertard propaganda. After mostly fast forwarding through the trash I felt like I should have been paid for putting up with the infomercial brown-nosing and tea-bagging those who own the most top 1% ish. That movie made me research any movie before ordering.
NoMagicCookie
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Nov 19, 2018
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I haven't studied her or even read much about her but have heard references to her enough to understand what she is about.
I also read recently that near the end of her life, she did in fact receive assistance from those programs she so detested the rest of us having
Lucy_Fehr
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Nov 19, 2018
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