Revolution In America
What would it take to overthrow the U.S. government? The question may seem academic, but all governments fail. The U.S. government will too, for the usual reasons: its ever increasing size, rapacity, and attempts to control all aspects of life; the corresponding shrinkage of its constituents’ liberty; imperial overreach; welfare-state bread and circuses; debt; spreading poverty; crony capitalism, rampant corruption; widening income disparities, and oligarchic arrogance. As clearly odious as the government is, shouldn’t we do all we can to move it towards its inevitable rendezvous with failure?
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however in my experience young people don't care that's what I'm scared of
Your sense of justice in rejecting the 'looters' and not wanting to help them is very correct and completely understandable. But whatever any of us do personally to cut back or otherwise try to avoid punishment for success, neither Ayn Rand nor we could or can base a life on withdrawing from society or expect that to change the culture for the better.
but seriously I understood where she was coming from, I've never been able to stand by and watch something I hate happen or watch something I love crumble, in the case of our country its both I can't help but fight it
Withdrawing support from something you disagree with says nothing about what you are for and what you do about it in active pursuit of values. Ayn Rand was no drop-out, did not advocate it for one's personal life, and explained why it is not a strategy for positive social change.
She did recognize that people do not and cannot be expected to work for punishment, but that leaves open what else they do instead, about which she had a lot to say. She wrote extensively about that. Her focus was _not_ on 'shrugging'.
There is a common confusion -- among some of the public not familiar with her philosophy -- between a fictional plot device in the novel versus the theme of the novel and the content of her philosophy.
But this is a different topic than misusing this forum to advocate illegal activities like violently overthrowing the US government.
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