What she pointed out is that people are individuals and need to be held to that personal responsibility. To contrast, many collectivists are so lost in group-approval syndrome that even when attempting to be manipulative, they spontaneously use group phrases without even realizing it, like "the party that claims." For all of Rands personal faults, she has had an enormously positive effect of millions of people's understanding of personal responsibility in politics, and the absolute evil of collectivism in any form.
As a result, collectivists hate her with a passion few others receive, and can't help using such derogatory, dehumanizing, hate-filled descriptions such as "vile" and "morally bankrupt." Others go so far as to cynically invoke Christian morality through the use of terms such as "family values" and "corrupter of souls," all while trying to turn their audience against a person who fought against the most satanic of all political threats in the world.
All in all, she evokes an interesting reaction from collectivists the world over.
I know what you mean.. Collectivist obviously hate all people who preach personal responsibiity. Like Jesus, Law-enforcement personel, and Smokey the Bear...
It all makes sense now. Totally good reason to have Rand as a mascot...
What I find most amusing about the liberal “hatred” of Ayn Rand is that if she was an admirer of socialism instead of capitalism, she would be a liberal icon. After all, she was an atheist, a supporter of abortion, brazenly committed adultery and was by most accounts an immoral mean-spirited woman who had no tolerance for anybody who had a different opinion. In other words, she was in many ways, the prototype liberal and aside from her political beliefs, would have mixed well with the likes of Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank.