[Turbopilot]

Halldorson's worldview, she says, took shape after the 1994 earthquake that devastated nearby Northridge. Her aunt, Ellen Fitzmaurice, a strong-willed libertarian, gave Halldorson Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" and ranted against what she saw as the wasteful federal response to the disaster.

Halldorson left Los Angeles convinced that people should rely on each other, not the government, when things get rough.

She's a little nutty, but if she has individualist libertarian politics defined by an objectivist worldview, she's good people, even if her taste in wardrobe leaves something to be desired.

[wideawake]

if she has individualist libertarian politics defined by an objectivist worldview, she's good people

That used to be good enough, before 9/11.

[bassmaner]

individualist libertarian politics defined by an objectivist worldview

IIRC, the Randians are NOT anti-war.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

She's a little nutty, but if she has individualist libertarian politics defined by an objectivist worldview, she's good people, even if her taste in wardrobe leaves something to be desired.

Except that "people relying on each other" (her words) is not objectivism. People peeing in each other cornflakes, just because they can - that's objectivism.