Unstable GOVERNMENT... If you took a brown Crayola and colored in George Bush, it would look just like Barack Obama. Mr. Thompson was a liberal enlightenment man (he said of himself), but Cuffy Meigs was the conservative who wanted to extend the USA to all of North America -- and who (traditionally) denigrated Dagny Taggart as "the girl who knows about railroads." Objectivism is deeper than complaining about Democrats. And BTW, Ayn Rand admired Adlai Stevenson for his intellectual approach to political questions. She disagreed with the conclusions, but she agreed with the method.