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I have to admit that in my years of debating issues on internet forums with people on the Far Right of the political spectrum, I have never before encountered one who simply denies history that he finds incovenient with quite as much density.
The closest I have ever seen to it happened way back in 1971 during my senior year in college in an advanced Political theory course that all Political Science majors had to take in two parts and pass with at least a B. There was one prof who taught both sections and lots of people took it more than once. There was one guy in there who from day one wanted to argue that to leave the writing of Ayn Rand off the course reading list was a crime against political theory. Over and over and over again he would bring up Rand and her ersatz philosophy and the prof would destroy it like flushing a toilet. Everything was based on his own beliefs and his acceptance of what Rand wrote. He never included the works of anybody we were suppose to be talking about or reading. I cannot tell you how much class time was wasted on this nonsense. After a few weeks, he started again the the Prof could no longer take it. He told the guy in no certain terms to shut the hell up and never ever ever bring up Rand and her ideas again or he would get an F in the course and nothing else he did would count.
The rest of the class sat there stunned and then somebody started clapping and then everybody started clapping and the guy actually started crying and left never to return.
And that was my first introduction to Ayn Rand and her randroid true believers.