None of us are as beautiful as we used to be, or as b*tt-ugly as we will be... someday, FRiend. ;-)
Posted on 06/20/2013 12:48:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Ayn Rand got it very very right on capitalism.
She got it dreadfully wrong on social conservatism and God.
Philosophy aside, both Ayn Rand and Rand Paul are butt-ugly individuals.
She was also a racist and a eugenicist (the two are linked.)
And any “anti-government” type who spends a significant portion of their life living off welfare...well, who has time for hypocrites?
So is Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg!!! (Butt ugly that is.)
“But if Rand Paul distrusts democracy he must’ve gotten it from Ayn Rand.”
It is government that the Founders distrusted enough to insist on the Amendments. It is always right to distrust government and to check the abuses of power.
This is self-evident today.
The “Ch” is pronounced as if it were an “Sh”, the “ai” is pronounced as a short “i”, and the “t” is pronounced as a “t”.
Refresh my memory. I read practically every word she ever wrote while I was in college in the late '60s and early '70s. My memory isn't what it used to be. So please feel free to refresh it.
How did she live off welfare? And I don't recall her every writing anything racist, nor advocating eugenics.
So please enlighten me as to what you are talking about.
Perhaps instead of attacking Rand, you can interact with the ideas. They do not depend on her choices. To not honestly confront ideas and focus on personalities is lame.
I believe in the concept of capitalism within a Representative Republic. Why do people keep insinuating that the U.S. is a Democracy?
She also nailed the Left so very perfectly, which is why they hated and still hate her so much.
An FR intellect.
It would be lame, if it didn't work so well. That's why it's on PAGE ONE of the leftist playbook. And that goes back BEFORE Alinsky.
I do not understand why Rand’s influence on Rand Paul ought to be more controversial than Marx’s influence on Barack Obama.
And as been pointed out, the Founders did not believe strongly in democracy either.
Rand’s writing (fiction) was so ponderous and silly, I couldn’t care less what her politics were.
None of us are as beautiful as we used to be, or as b*tt-ugly as we will be... someday, FRiend. ;-)
tl:dr
Herp derp...
Your memory is accurate.
FRiend warchild9 is just a bit, ahem, confused.
Considering the personality cult that has risen around the woman, her personality is a fair target.
It’s like Limbaugh; he’s an execrable person. The Viagra incident alone casts doubt on his every word.
If a person is going to preach ethics, as the Randians claim she does, that person has to be immaculate.
And I doubt anyone on this forum has plodded more than ten pages into any of her awful writing. But it’s popular to say “She’s greeeeeeat!”
Claiming to read Hayek or even Rothbard doesn’t get one any pats on the back in peasant right-wing circles.
Call “lame” all you want. I’ll bet you don’t even know who Rothbard is. (Quick, to Wiki! “Murray Rothbard.”)
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