Ayn Rand On The Democratic Party 1968 - Galt's Gulch

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Ayn Rand On The Democratic Party 1968

Posted by khalling 9 years, 9 months ago to Politics

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Posted by edweaver 9 years, 9 months ago

She new what was happening to this country very much like some of us do now. I wish that I had learned of her writings long before I did. May have changed my life. It sure has since.

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  Posted by Susanne 9 years, 9 months ago
  
  Exactly. I look at the socialist moocher pull-mongering liberal scum I used to be (yes, I really was - I could probably still quote some Lenin (ewwww) or Mao, tho it would turn my stomach), trying to scam or favor my way into something, because I was taught that was how to "do business" (and always failing, and always blaming others)...
  
  Then, curious, I opened the book, read the first few lines, and the more I read, the more I realized the truth in her words, an undeniable truth. Forced me to do a moral inventory far deeper than anything involved with ol' Dr. Bob and his bud Bill W. It was if Ayn - through Dagny, and Danagger, and Rearden, and Hammond and Galt - and even through Mouch and Stadler and Meigs and Eubanks and those *other* Reardens - was speaking DIRECTLY to me.
  
  If I had red it in my teens instead of my 40's - hell, Rearden Steel would have not just been a business model, it would have been surpassed!! :-)
  
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    Posted by edweaver 9 years, 9 months ago
    
    I hear you. I was never the moocher because I have always believed in earning anything that I received. But I was mistaken on many things that I thought, or was taught through public schools. AS really made me see the light and help me to look at everything for what it truly is. Don't want to sound like I have all the answers because I that is not the case. I'm much better at seeing through the clutter and for that I'm thankful to Ayn Rand.
    
    The other thing I am so thankful for is this Gulch. I am enlightened by the ideas and info that is shared.
    
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Posted by j_IR1776wg 9 years, 9 months ago

Philosophically nothing has changed. Senator Pocahantas of MA runs around mouthing the same bromides (People before profits) that Ayn Rand pointed out Sens. Kennedy and McCarthy were mouthing in 1967.

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