I wish History Channel would stop wasting my time on their almost-weekly “Prophecies of Nostradamus” documentaries, and make one on the “Prophecies of Ayn Rand”.
We can watch the prophecies of Ayn in real time on FreeRepublic. The History Channel could never keep up with it all.
I suggest you review the Ten Commandments, which HAS been what we based our laws and morality on and COMPARE it to how Ayn Rand lived her life. Ayn lived her life like an cat in heat. We HAVE Ayn's sense of morality in our representatives now and it is NOT working. If they cheat on their wife, income tax etc. - they will cheat YOU and have been cheating us. You cannot separate morality from a person. Either it is there or it is not.
We need to move beyond this juvenile what I do in PRIVATE is none of your business - but what I do in PUBLIC, when I represent you, IS your business. The two, public and private can NOT be separated. This idiotic compartMENTALization has been proven wrong, time and time again. THAT is where Ayn Rand fails.
Let me remind you of Clinton - yes what he does in PRIVATE matters - Lewdinsky is a good example - getting a blow job while he's making decisions concerning our military doesn't jive with a moral leader. How many times do we have to have, men and women who have no moral boundaries? It shows in their PUBLIC actions and decisions. They have COMPROMISED character. While no one is "perfect" as many claim for a defense, MANY are better than others. I dare say, even with Bush's flaws, he wasn't getting blow jobs in the WH while he made serious decisions.
Ayn rand would rather have you NOT look at the persons moral compass and see the relationship to the PUBLIC actions taken by the person. Ayn Rand was a drug addicted whore whose god was money. It's strange, since she understood communism but didn't see that she went to the opposite extreme with money as her god and ignoring how good character and morality played critical roles in the lives of people.