[ClearCase_guy]

So long as Ayn Rand's villains continue to resemble the reality in Washington, the story of Atlas Shrugged will remain popular.

Rand wrote the novel, in part, as a reaction to FDR's New Deal. Her villains are his bureaucrats.
I first read the novel in the 1990's and I thought, "Her villains are Clinton's bureaucrats."
Anyone reading the novel or seing the film today will surely think, "Her villains are Obama's bureaucrats."

Same old same old. Until the revolution.

[libstripper]

It's a timeless novel, even more compelling today than it was in 1957. Aftetr all, in 1957 we did not have an Illegal Alien WH occupant who bitterly, passionately hated America, Americans, wanted to destroy every good thing this counry has ever stood for, and was moving pell mell to do just that. After reading it in paperback in the early 1960's, I bought a hard back version, which I have read at least twice, far more than any other book.

[libstripper]

It's a timeless novel, even more compelling today than it was in 1957. Aftetr all, in 1957 we did not have an Illegal Alien WH occupant who bitterly, passionately hated America, Americans, wanted to destroy every good thing this counry has ever stood for, and was moving pell mell to do just that. After reading it in paperback in the early 1960's, I bought a hard back version, which I have read at least twice, far more than any other book.

[GeronL]

I think the villians on par with the bureaucrats in the novel were the corporations that attached themselves to these bureaucrats.