[philman_36]

Now, now, you know Ayn Rand was "a kook" and Atlas Shrugged should never be used as a reliable source as it's purely fiction. /sarcasm

[Lurker]

If I recall correctly, a bunch of the people who founded this country were regularly dismissed as kooks, radicals, and ne'er do wells also.

Galileo was branded a kook and a heretic and very nearly paid with his life for spreading what he knew to be the truth.

History is chock full of people who were branded kooks, liars, heretics, and worse that were later proved to be right.

A good chunk of the Republican party thinks a sizeable number of the folks on forums just like this one are kooks.

That doesn't make them right.

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