No one here is perfectly happy with their party. Sulking in the comfortable corner of a political philosophy that has no participation in the current political sphere is the fashionably cool pose of college rebels. But I don't have to respect it as being anything but what it is: A cop-out.
(Pause while the "Oh yeah, well the Republicans were a minoriity party once!" fussilade falls)
Objectivism is a fine idea, the right's socialism, really, where all those idealists who won't accept anything but an unreachable perfection can join and feel elite and above it all. But it's no more reality than basing one's view of the world on Star Trek utopian dreams would be. I live in the real world, and have no time for those who don't and expect everyone to fawn over them for it.