One can do, as I just have done, an interesting exercise whilst rereading Atlas Shrugged. If you look for phrases uttered by the libfools in the novel, you can find ones that are almost exact clones (OK, reverse clones...or something) of idiocies uttered by the Obamadork, his cretin minions, or the Lamestream Press.
Really.
I’d like to see someone do a good web site on quotes from the novel on the left - and like quotes from your local progressive cretin on the right.
It’s not hard, but tres fun.
And a bit frightening, actually.
Ayn Rand, either unusually prescient, or an excellent student of the history of humanity over the eons, laid her finger on the pulse of humanity. In a totally unintentional manner, she swerved into a number of “self-evident” truths that were designated as endowed by the Creator by the Founding Fathers, themselves imperfect men.
The Randians claim to be “atheist”, but at some deeper, more profound level, their Objectivism is really an affirmation of a greater Intelligent Design. Call it what you will, the order that the Universe obeys, and as of yet, has scarcely been revealed, speaks of a vast and ubiquitous Presence, far beyond man’s poor ability to perceive and understand.
But we can embrace it. Whether we must, or should, is a matter of individual conscience, but this great Presence is defied only at great personal peril.
Peril which may or may not befall the individual within this lifetime.
I’m currently reading Coolidge by Amity Shales, about a time when America was turning away from the progressivism of Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt.
President Harding in 1920 called it a return to Normalcy.
Will Rogers once asked Harding to tell him the latest political jokes. Harding said, “I know ‘em. I appointed most of them.”
Harding had a Reaganesque sense of humor. Good president too.