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See Hank's post 38:
It's true, many of the principles of Objectivism cannot be proved to many people, possibly most people. So what? The principles of the Calculus cannot be proved to many people, possibly to most people. So what? In both cases, they are true, and the fact that most people are to stupid to understand the proof, proves nothing.

So, you might as well say that Deconstruction is true on those terms.

That's no answer either - it's basically an ad hominem attack against one's interlocutor. "You're too dumb to get it" is not a rational, objective proof of the truth of a thing.

Essentially, r9etb spotted the basic problem in #25 - "The problem here is that objectivists expect us to accept their underlying assertions as true and absolute." Of course, that's true of all systems of morality and ethics - all of them are based on unprovable assertions that must be taken as axiomatic for the system to work. If you happen to accept the axioms of objectivism, it'll work just fine. If not, it won't, and there's no objective (sorry) way to make it work. Rand's own prescription to "check your premises" works against her in this regard, unfortunately.