atlasshrugged
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Consider, in perspective, what's happened: an ideology (partly inspired by Rand--remember dopey Alan Greenspan?) of deregulation and unbridled capitalism brought the world to the brink of economic collapse in 2008. Four years later, the Republican Party has now openly embraced a full-throated Randian ideology. This country has learned nothing. If Obama does not rise to this occasion, and launch a full-throttled attack on this ideology, he will go down in history as the most craven coward in American politics."
What a joke of a comment? The moochers in Rand's books would say the same thing. The market crashed in 2008, not due to failures of capitalism, but because the government felt it was "the right" of every American to have a home more expensive than they could afford. Then when neither the buyers nor the builders were willing to pay the difference, people went bankrupt. Now people want to use this as an excuse that more bills should be passed concerning our economy?
Anyone who's read Atlas Shrugged can see that this is painfully similar to Wesley Mouch's point of view.
Also, you posted a link to that ridiculous article attempting to discredit Rand as inhumane by stating that she somehow finds a thrill in stupid people dying. If you bother to read the book and not the propaganda concerning it, you'll see that she's just illustrating that all the people on the train share the same twisted ideology as the railroad workers who get them killed. It's not about them deserving to die, it's just pointing out that they would have made the same decision that got them killed. You know... like foolish citizens who are being ruined by the politicians but who would do the same things if elected.