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I've read some of Atlas Shrugged. Life intruded – it was not a lack of interest – before I got to John Galt's big speech, alas. I've also read a few of her essays and one of her smaller books. I would recommend her enthusiastically for any book group. She raises questions and issues that many Americans take as being settled, and does so in a baldly provocative way (Robin Hood is the most evil man in history, she says). There are, in her books, both principles and applications of those principles. One may agree with one and not the other. This little video does little but to paint her as an enemy of faith, while making her look nervous and shifty-eyed. Those who think she is giving a blank check to capitalism and would always oppose regulations are, I think, deluded. The world of Atlas Shrugged is a caricature of the real world. Everyone in it is either a "looter," as she calls the Robin Hood types, or a moral paragon. Many of my friends, almost all of whom are liberal, were aghast that I was reading Rand. Not that I was agreeing with her, as I hadn't read enough to commit. Just that I was reading her work. I found that disheartening.
I understand and agree, John, but a) this was a fun video to put up, if cheap and b) I think it does seem a legitimate question for the Repubs, regardless.
All questions are legitimate, except stuff like, "Yes or No: Have you stopped beating your mother?"
point taken.
:)
But the fact is, John, the Repubs are using and have used religion and morality, from that, against the Dems time and again and this kind of information, while akin to "have you stopped beating your wife?", seems, unfortunately, very fair ammunition for those same Dems, in an effort to halt the upwards flow of money from the middle- and lower-classes to the upper, wealthy classes.
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