[Don Corleone]

The people who read Ayn Rand and got the point didn’t just become aware of costs and benefits, incentives and trade-offs. They became passionate advocates of liberty. "

Sort of like a Sarah Palin before there was a Sarah Palin.

[bigbob]

I like that analogy. I read AS in college and frankly didn’t get much out of it other than a defense of capitalism and the strength of the individual. Then I re-read it just last year and it was as if I were reading the daily headlines off Drudge. I came away with a much deeper understanding of what capitalism and the free enterprise system really means, it in fact is the fuel that powers the creativity and drive of the individual. People cannot accomplish great things without being in an environment that nurtures and support them in doing so. The government of AS is the sureest way to kill an economy and look around and what do we have in 2015?

Haters gonna hate. Sadly far too many on FR can’t analyze or think beyond the surface and merely mouth platitudes in an echo chamber. Great minds like Rand’s help show the way forward.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Sort of like a Sarah Palin before there was a Sarah Palin.

Well, Rand attracts the same sort of Alinsky-ite personal destruction attacks as Palin does. They proves every time that Welfare State Leftism is a religion, not a political movement.