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Is Trump a Howard Roark?

Posted by DrEdwardHudgins 8 years ago to Politics
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Trump says he’s a fan of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. But while Roark, the novel’s hero, treats people with respect, The Donald treats them like idiots. Who’s the moral idiot?
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 12 months ago
    Another of the Trump hating articles/ Maybe that author should write about whether Hillary is Dagny Taggart.

    Its so obvious that a Roark or Galt could never even want to be president of the USA at the present time, nor would ever be even close to being elected. It will take a lot more than Ayn Rand to wake up the populace here to the lack of any sort of rational philosophical base.

    All we can expect now from a candidate who has a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected is a slowing down of the now inevitable slide to complete statism. Whether one likes Trump or not, he is the ONLY of the electable candidates that fills this bill.
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    • Posted by DrEdwardHudgins 7 years, 12 months ago
      Fox, NBC, CBS and other polls all show Trump losing pretty significantly to Hillary. She'd beat Cruz but it's close and at least on most economic issues, Cruz is better than Trump. Kasich beats Hillary in a several polls but he is more establishment GOP though better than Hillary. I see the long game as rebuilding the GOP or some sort of more consistent party out of the ashes. And this will mean that we must fight value battles in the culture, since politics is the following, not the leading edge.
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      • Posted by term2 7 years, 12 months ago
        I am so tired of the establishment always manipulating me with pundits and polls that I just done believe pretty much anything that they say anymore. The two parties are just businesses trying to make money off the elections. And the electoriate is stuck with basically two choices- whether we like it or not.

        If its a democracy, which it shouldnt be but is, one person= one vote should rule. The back room deals to pick a candidate who can advance the policies of the "party" just isnt a good idea in this day and age. Internet voting or even cell phone voting needs to be made to work. That way we can vote for whoever we want from the list of whoever wants to run. Let the best person win.
        Whether the trump haters get their way or not, he has exposed what goes on in the back rooms for all of us to see.
        Hillary with her $220 million in "campaign investments" will probably win, as she controls the media manipulation and propaganda machine.

        Cruz doesnt have what it takes to be president. His whining and preaching just turns me off. And his insistence on "stop Trump" is a real turn off. I want to see what they CAN do, not what the other person CANT do.

        If Trump is ejected from the Repubs, and Sanders from the Dems, I hope BOTH of them run independently and keep Hillary from getting the 270 electoral votes. She is an evil witch, and needs to be stopped.
        If Hillary is elected, I give up on the USA for good. Its headed for a venezuelan collapse until people realize socialism doesnt work. That will be long after I am gone, however.
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