The best cure for stupidity is self reflection followed by diligent correction. Requiring reasoning and a desire for improved cognizance.
Wouldn't the death and vasectomy cure be a eugenics philosophy.

Oh, really!
The librarians in this place will probably not ap-
preciate it if I puke all over this keyboard.

"There's a limit to intelligence, but no limit to stupidity. -- Red Skelton

"Slow motion train wreck."
Great description indeed. In the past, I would wonder how advanced cultures such as Germany and Japan could allow themselves to fall into such anti-life philosophy. But now that I've experienced it with what I thought to be the most culturally advanced, freest nation ever, I can see that no place is immune to the creeping greed and those who will cater to it in order to glean power.

I think I know what you're getting at. You asked who the adversaries of Mr. Thompson were. And I agree: the real hearoes of AS were Dagny and Hank. (The Triumvirs of Atlantis were an entirely different kind of "good guys." I call them anti-villains, men who, in the service of just causes, have their minds made up by the time you meet them and will stop only if someone kills them. (Conventional literary villains serve evil causes--hence the name villain, which means literally a low-life.)

But I asked whether Mr. Thompson was a worthy adversary for Dagny, Hank--or John, Francisco or Ragnar. I don't think so. He was pathetic. They all were pathetic--all the looters. The only villain who came close to being a really challenging adversary was Floyd Ferris.

There are many of us who have not "allowed" this despicable talking head to be the leader of what was once the free world. I am mortified and disgusted that the pathetic republicans, for whatever reasons, have done nothing to reverse the decline of our country. We are simply outnumbered by the simpletons who live for the moment and don't want to think about tomorrow while being intimidated by the pc police, the media and the garbage on the tv. It's pathetic to watch the slow-motion train wreck that is our "leadership".

His most worthy adversaries in the plot were Dagny and Rearden. The adversaries on the other side had all force.

That's a progressive for ya...protecting their own kind...perpetuate the kakistocracy and punish those that might just be awakening? is that possible? again...Hmmm.

Influenced by ewv's reply, I just thought of Obama as a child with a loaded gun.
He does have too real enough blood on his hands.

I can go along with that.

Boy-Chic can't leave his fantasy world - ever!

We understood. You wrote "their bible".

SORRY, I meant their bible, the Koran

see? . acerbic. -- j
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this is their George Orwell-type correct-speak making
its ugly head fully visible. . fascism. -- j
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It is the Koran not the bible.

Yes, I can see why. Now that kind of Mr. Thompson would have been a worthy adversary. One key criticism of AS is that John Galt had no worthy adversaries, as Howard Roark had.

True enough.

The ideology of Obama makes him much worse than a mere thug like Mr. Thompson.

No, this is the real world he's allowed to operate in. The fantasy is the utopian excuses.

Ayn Rand would have had a lot more than that to say about it and what it represents of the last 7+ years -- but would have already said it long before this symbolic example.

He should have been impeached years ago. Republicans lack the courage -- and many of them like and accept the power even if they don't always agree with the details.

Technically, this is a minor detail concerning translation of a foreign speaker, yet it is inexcusable and jumps out at us because of what we know it represents.

Who is?