I’m still an optimist. America could turn this around. Serious tax reform and education reform would go along way toward saving this country. Not saying that’s likely in the short-term, but I picture the ending of “Atlas Shrugged” — after everything falls apart, there is reason to believe that people will see government as the problem, not the solution, and then free individuals and free markets can work miracles.
I can remember back in the 1970s, when I became a conservative (after first discovering Ayn Rand in 1969), I used to have this nightmare: The world has been destroyed by nuclear war. I think I am the only survivor. Then I meet another living human being, a fellow survivor. We both look around at the destruction and carnage, and the first thing he says is: "F**king capitalists!"