Ayn Rand has nothing to do with the American Republic.
She was a rabid atheist and amoral. A free American people needed Western virtues and ethics in order to be independent economically.
Liberal-tarians have screwed things up by adopting the communist culture and values while trying to fit it into economic freedom. It’s like the wild West before the sheriff arrived. Now they justify a police state to reign in the banksters. That is why young liberal-tarians find it so easy to vote for an idiot like Obama - no morals, virtues and ethics (which they think is “freedom”) even though he’s a Marxist, ignoring the constitution and rule of law (which is the basis of real American freedom) in practice. You don’t hear Liberal-tarians talk about the constitution much because it gives freedom to people who have actual Western morals and virtues. NOOOO! We have to all be forced to get in the sewer with the queers to be “free.”
Agreed.