This article is more optimistic than me.
I kept looking for unicorns, sparkling stars and warm, soft, furry bunnies.
There aren’t any.
—This article is more optimistic than me.—
Me too. There is one thing in this nation that is amazingly like the story in Atlas Shrugged.
Specifically, the people that “dropped out” like John Galt did not all go at once. Each one had to be convinced that the battle was lost and adjusting your strategy to the new rules was an exercise in futility.
Hank Reardon was second to last, and he barely escaped with his life. Dagney Taggart was the last to finally “get it”.
There are a lot of Dagney Taggarts still in the world. The author of this article is one of them.