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I have never been able to understand why so many "conservatives" love this book.

It's not rocket science! Conservatives are anti-Socialist! Objectivists and Libertarians are Anti-Socialist! Atlas Shrugged is anti-Socialist!

We all play on the same team yet you might as well be thinking about skee ball.

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We all may play on the same team and conservatives may have to accept Objectivists and Libertarians. However, that does not explain the love affair so many conservatives have with Rand.

She hated conservatives, hated tradition, hated the concept of duty, hated the pro-live movement, hated Reagan, hated religion.

Rand is like the witch handing out apples on Halloween with a razor blade inserted in them. Her philosophy may look appealing, but inside its full of hatred and evil.

As for the book, I read it 20 years ago and it is little more than a tedious and narrow-minded fantastical rant.

In short, Objectivism has about the same relationship to conservatism as pornography has to love. Both may have sex involved, but one lifts the human spirit and one is soulless and empty.