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"Curious thought."

My point was that Rand and most of her followers have indulged in subjectivism while describing themselves as "objectivists." And very centralized governments by oligarchs haven't worked very well whether communist or fascist.

For now, the plutocrats (favored constituents) control governments and adore socialism for its uses (e.g., social programs to keep the competition divorced and down, zoning, land use, homeowners' associations' regulations against small business starts), but they are begging for their deposition to come. The political environment of the rabble becomes increasingly nonpolitical and preparatory.

Take the Galt character, for example. The engineers are with the low-techs and peasants. They instruct us. In a fiction more realistic to the contemporary situation, Galt would have been a manager, career investor or importer. Such a hip ruler would be helpless against deconstruction by plain, downscale Americans.

We yearn for American conservatism--not European (and especially Balkan/Iberian) left or right. And as for elite concerns about population and reminisces about the Renaissance, those who aren't willing or encouraged to build upward are either cowards or idiots--more amenable to libertine socialists than conservatives.