[TrueKnightGalahad]

Perhaps it's the late hour, but I do not understand your comment - can you name anyone who is using anything in AS as an "excuse" to destroy America? What would be the basis or rationale of such an "excuse?" AS has been written, therefore we must destroy America? Sorry, but that doesn't seem to make sense from any perspective.

Of course Ayn would not have approved...but that in no way vitiates her predictive powers of the devastation caused by socialism and crony capitalism. No-one ever thought that AS was in any way a prescription for actions that should be taken...but if one wanted to wreak economic and social havoc, her works would provide a blueprint for things to do to cause maximum damage.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Not in Atlas Shrugged.

It’s one of my favorite books. But I am deeply concerned at how Rand’s vision of an innovative, self-reliant American locale (the Gulch) has been twisted around and used to somehow be the Peoples Republic of China.

I see “free traders” use of Galts Gulch to justify offshoring and firing Americans - and giving those jobs to communists, as a corruption of that wonderful book.

Nothing could be further from Galts Gulch, than a massive communist nation.