Posted on 01/21/2015 4:06:39 PM PST by iowamark
Re: the libs. I see a parallel with the black community, the inner city ‘hood, with no foundation in the Bible, they fall easy prey to Islam. And with the Mormons. People with a Biblical foundation do not fall prey to the claims of Mormonism.
Most libertarians I know, with very few exceptions, are not Biblicists, which is why they fall prey to the Hedonist, dope smoking, homo, and same sex marriage libertarian movement. Most of them, like Ann Rand, far from having a Bible foundation, are atheists.
Anyone with a true understanding of the scriptures, know automatically that Islam, Mormonism, and libertarianism, are false.
From a little later in the same interview with Ronald Reagan ...
But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are travelling the same path.
http://reason.com/archives/1975/07/01/inside-ronald-reagan
On the meta level, my reason for producing Reagan’s thoughts on libertarianism was in response to your evinced hatred of libertarians. You don’t come across to me as being a socon extremist, but maybe I am in error.
Conservatives like Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry will lay down and die without so much as a whimper when the collectivist mobs overtake the country. He sounds like Hillary with his squishy empathy talk and judging by the tone of his writing is lacking in humility. Not exactly qualities needed to be a intellectual leader.
As if you read it.
He was a greater Communist, as in Soviet agent.
Right on the money.
Very well said. Thanks.
As if you read it.
I read both. Throw in Animal Farm also, which was written by a distant relative.
Atlas Shrugs is is about a place and time with a government much like ours. They do not have a clue what they are doing and screw up the whole country. 1984 is a book about a country under full NSA surveillance.
Did you read them?
Ha ha.
Yes! Thank you!
You don't have to accept every thought, idea or opinion of Rand to say that a great many of her writings accurately describe the state of our world today. She had tremendous insight as an economic historian, and she clearly defined the "good guys" from the "bad" ones in her books. Those conservatives that do like her appreciate the conservative approach to Rand's economics, her desire to show personal responsibility as a virtue, and her world view that a heavy-handed, highly-regulated and burdensome is bad for individual freedom. We can like all of that and disagree with her views on abortion, religion and overt selfishness.
Once again you failed to cut/paste the most relevant part of that interview. The one where he clearly distances himself from libertarianism.
But even if Reagan was stretching then; trying to find something nice to say about this failed philosophy, one thing is clear now:
Reagan would be adamantly against it today. The Ron/Rand Pauls and Gary Johnson that are their lib leaders, the pro-abortion, pro-dope, open borders agenda. The gross immorality and anti-conservative rhetoric that is today’s libertarianism.
This is why I said upthread - I hate libertarians.
Ayn Rand and her followers (e.g. Greenspan) have neither repented nor atoned for their misdeeds.
I don’t accept his “atonement.” Treason isn’t atonable.
From Wikipedia:
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan posthumously awarded Chambers the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for his contribution to "the century's epic struggle between freedom and totalitarianism".
If it was good enough for President Ronald Reagan it's good enough for me.
As if he could subtract Chambers’ contribution to communism’s death and destruction. I guess your argument against communism is that it is atheistic. My argument goes deeper.
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