[Ranger Warrior]

Ayn Rand was an ardent anti-Communist which is a major contributor to her ideology. Belief in self-worth, creativity, achievement... not such bad things. For some reason, the left loathes these concepts and the only reason I can fathom for their hatred of success and achievement is that the left, i.e. Progressives and liberals, are basically lazy, unmotivated drones.

[henkster]

I believe that young people gravitate to Rand because she spoke for the independence of the individual, and young people don't want to think of themselves as “lazy unmotivated drones” as you so aptly stated. It is a conundrum that a young person can be attracted to Rand as well as leftist ideology at the same time. I believe it is because the average college student does not have a well-formed ideology, where they have accepted a certain world-view and rejected those things that are inconsistent with it.

When I was a college student at Indiana University during the late 1970s, a very liberal time at a very liberal campus, “Where is John Gault” graffiti was quite common.

[henkster]

I believe that young people gravitate to Rand because she spoke for the independence of the individual, and young people don't want to think of themselves as “lazy unmotivated drones” as you so aptly stated. It is a conundrum that a young person can be attracted to Rand as well as leftist ideology at the same time. I believe it is because the average college student does not have a well-formed ideology, where they have accepted a certain world-view and rejected those things that are inconsistent with it.

When I was a college student at Indiana University during the late 1970s, a very liberal time at a very liberal campus, “Where is John Gault” graffiti was quite common.

[henkster]

I believe that young people gravitate to Rand because she spoke for the independence of the individual, and young people don't want to think of themselves as “lazy unmotivated drones” as you so aptly stated. It is a conundrum that a young person can be attracted to Rand as well as leftist ideology at the same time. I believe it is because the average college student does not have a well-formed ideology, where they have accepted a certain world-view and rejected those things that are inconsistent with it.

When I was a college student at Indiana University during the late 1970s, a very liberal time at a very liberal campus, “Where is John Gault” graffiti was quite common.

[GOPJ]

Ayn Rand was an ardent anti-Communist which is a major contributor to her ideology. Belief in self-worth, creativity, achievement... not such bad things. For some reason, the left loathes these concepts...

Ryan seems to have walked away with the good parts of Any Rand - as most of us who are conservatives have... She wasn't perfect - but she had important things to add to the conversation.

[Sam Gamgee]

I don’t understand why Rand is getting slogged in this article. Rand was one of the new capitalist thinkers that proudly proclaimed capitalism not on the miserable argument that is works better, but that capitalism is morally superior to the alternative. Sure, I disagree with her on many things, but she was proud of America and hated Libertarians who love to hate America, and would have always been on the side of those who advocated force to protect America’s interests.