Posted on 06/20/2013 12:48:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Mom is dead.
She didn’t live to see me complete my FIFTH COLLEGE DEGREE, not that she would have cared. Only the first was “practical,” said she, so the rest were self-indulgences.
I know how she felt.
You’re a Palin supporter, right?
“I don’t need none of that book learnin’ I got common sense!”
The Founders distrusted DEMOCRACY.... what a dolt .... that is why they constructed a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC
Rand collected Social Security in her old age. The left uses this to club her. Apparently so do some here. The similarity between some freepers and the MSNBC loons is amusing.
Of course they forget that compulsury taxes is extracted from people working age till Social Security collection age.
I hope to never collect social security, mainly becaue of my ideals, but I will probably not because the system will be broke/ collapsed by then anyways...
Pardon me if I don’t share my history with you at this time.
Less than 1% of the cultists...and her writing is godawful. Really really bad. You will learn 10x reading Buckley, and he’s funny.
I recommend Mark Steyn for the Humour!
you are kind
I have read every word....and most of what you say is prattle
Actually, he’s pretty funny, too. More slapstick, less verbal than Buckley.
why do you bother to even post on FR since you feel you are oh sooooo much more gifted and intelligent than use poor little peons
Been using your thesaurus?
Women prattle, Mr. Manliness. I troll.
Trolling is fun for us polysyllabic types.
I save my serious discussions for strangers who DON’T butt into my business to insult me.
It is important to remember that Ayn Rand came to her philosophy by being raised in the Soviet Union at the height of repressive communism and the complete failure of ANY church to stand against it.
2) If Chait voted for Barack Obama who was attending Marxist conferences about the time Rand Paul was reading Ayn Rand, he's already demonstrated that this stuff isn't that important to him. Politicians evolve. Ask the same questions about those you vote for as those you vote against. If Chait was willing to take a chance on Obama in spite of Frank Marshall Davis and all the rest, isn't he being hypocritical not to give Paul the same benefit of the doubt?
3) People take from Rand what they want or need. Even Ronald Reagan called himself an "admirer" of Rand. I don't think he went whole-hog or that Rand Paul does either. She had an admirable side. Not everything she said was horrible or monstrous. Some of it was just good sense. She opposed some things that were worth opposing when not everybody did. Finding somebody who later became a politician quoting Rand saying basically what the Founders or George Orwell would have said isn't very damning.
It is important to remember that Ayn Rand came to her philosophy by being raised in the Soviet Union at the height of repressive communism and the complete failure of ANY church to stand against it.
Quoted for complete and total TRUTH!
LBJ has killed the Churches in this country and Neutered their resolve to stand up against evil.... Only the “Black Robe Regiment” can save the churches now...?
I’ve read three of her novels, and a number of her essays, and I’m not one of her cult. I think you underestimate her influence on conservatism. BTW, I’ve also read Buckley, Milton Friedman, Bill Simon(Sr.), Robert Ringer, and some Hayek.
I think what impresses new readers of Rand is the shock of recognition they get from her antagonists. Each of her bad guys has a counterpart in people running the country today. She understands statists perfectly and she understands where statism leads.
When you read about the car trip to the ruined Wisconsin city that was home to the defunct car plant, my god, she is describing Detroit 50 years in the future.
“Call “lame” all you want. I’ll bet you don’t even know who Rothbard is.”
Lew Rockwell seems to like him a lot.
Let you in on a secret...reading Hayek, for the most part, is better than camomile tea if you’re having trouble settling at midnight.
And Rand was a decent essayist. She was writing for an entirely different audience, then. Much more accessible...and she remembers what paragraphs are for.
There’s a small, hard-core, unthinking cult here on FR that rose around her about 2002-2003 or so. A real bunch of loons, then and now. You’ve been around long enough to remember their rise and ceaseless noise, hm?
Most of her followers are barely literate. I love flushing them out; they’re so easily irritated, but not very clever.
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