Posted on 01/21/2015 4:06:39 PM PST by iowamark
Please pardon my posting error. The author is Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry.
No,...that's just what Liberals THINK a conservative caricature is..
He says he hates Ayn Rand. But he doesn’t. At least not in this long looong article.
He just writes how he hates her work. Her writings.
Me? I can’t hate her. She’s dead. But if I could hate her, I would.
Apart from her writings - which were great! - Rand was a mess. Her personal life - even by today’s standards - was deplorable.
She was truly a libertarian. And I hate libertarians.
"When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt,
but protects the corrupt from you -
you know your nation is doomed."
-Ayn Rand
Ayn wouldn’t care that the author didn’t like her and it wouldn’t affect her opinion of him in the least. Ain’t freedom grand?
Especially in the last 20 years, people on the right (especially "Tea Party" types) seem to think Libertarian beliefs are interchangeable with conservative beliefs. If someone promotes limited government and free markets, they're automatically touted as a conservative savior.
The result is we end up with "conservative" leaders like Rand Paul, who get into power and then announce we need to give felons the right to vote, welcome "gay marriage folks" in the GOP and support a "path to citizenship" for illegal aliens.
We need to stop pretending a libertarian philosophy makes someone a Reagan Republican.
i.e. Chuck Norris movies
Amen.
I love liberty and those who defend it.
As a Christian I recognized immediately, Ayn Rand beliefs are opposed to Jesus teachings.
I never got into the history of the author and I really don’t care about her. Her book came across as a satire to me and almost as good as the book 1984.
I’ve always summed up conservatives as libertarians with a Bible. IOW - freedom under God, not from God.
My take on libertarianism and Christianity:
http://www.faithfacts.org/blog/libertarianism-christianity
(I know there will be vile comments. . . .)
I’m with you here.
As we all are aware, Rand never claims to be a Christian, let alone a Christian apologist. Quite the contrary.
(Note: I’m a believer and follower of Jesus)
But that doesn’t make her insight into human nature and free market principles any less noteworthy.
I’ll continue to value how she was able to capture basic economic truths that progressives today either cannot or simply refuse to understand.
The quote you posted is a great example of why I think her contributions should be recognized and taught.
Government poses a grave danger to our liberty, and that’s something she well understood having seen her father’s business seized by the Bolshevik’s before she came to the U.S.
Rand ping.
Well Alex, it's 2015 and both Ms. Rand and Mr. Orwell nailed it.
Go suck eggs.
5.56mm
“And remember, there’s almost certainly a piece of schlock that does for you the same things that Atlas Shrugged does for many conservatives, so cut them some slack.”
Psssh. Just because I told him I think my car can make the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs, this guy thinks he knows all about me!
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