Thanks for your thoughts. You mentioned atheism. It is interesting that the first and best arguments I ever heard for atheism came from Ayn Rand. I read everything she wrote when I was a teenager. She got me interested in the idea of free markets and her whole objectivist philosophy, which later lead to the libertarian party. For a while I was an atheist, largely due to Ayn Rand. I later changed my mind.
But back to your statement about the vile left. I think the politicians on both sides are pretty corrupt, but I don't think of the average liberal voter as being vile, just mistaken.
Yes, Ayn Rand was an atheist. However, she was not atheist who sought to impose secular humanism on the United States, like the criminals at the American Commie Liars Union, also known as the ACLU.
The average libs (the youngsters who wander around aimlessly in Che Guevara t-shirts and the aging Red Diaper Babies) are, at very best, brain dead drones. The ones with simian intelligence, (the so-called intelligensia and politicians) are FASCISTS. They seek to enslave their fellow man to the will of the state. They have no point of view that is even remotely worthy of respect.