To rush into politics on an intellectual shoestring, to posture as a champion of freedom, to get into power by cashing in on the people’s hope and despair, then to offer them, for inspiration and guidance, nothing better than the old religion-family-tradition stuff – the stuff that has lost the world to communism – is so dark a betrayal that those guilty of it deserve what they get. They do not merely lose, they disillusion the people, they discredit the ideas of a free society and thus assist the victory of statism.... So much for today’s conservatives, “Libertarians,” and sundry third- fourth- or tenth-party organizers.--Ayn Rand, A Last Survey, Part II (The last article in her Ayn Rand Letter), January-February, 1976
The one sentence highlighted above explains why the republican party is so fractured and disillusioned. We keep fighting to get these guys elected, only to find out that they like bigger government and less freedom just like the other guys.
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