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"Ayn Rand was a joke. Her faux ideology is worse than a joke. Todays randroids would have to multiply their teeny tiny numbers by a factor of at least ten to work UP to the level of a joke."
Always? Oh, I guess you think this is constructive, and not just rhetoric and insults.
Actually that statement is right on the money and supported by facts and data. Just look at the declining election results for the Libertarian Party - the most identifiable randroid base in the nation - for its Presidential candidate ever four years and compare that to America and my description of TEENY TINY NUMBERS is accurate. Less than one-half of one percent is indeed TEENY TINY.
My description of Rand as pushing a faux ideology is also apt and accurate. It defies any normal tools used in identifying poltical ideologies and is so all over the map that it borders on having a split personality. I distinctly remember in my senior year in college as a poli sci major taking the two classes in Political Philosophy. We had a randroid in our class and he made an attempt to have the writings of Rand included in our discussion. The prof who taught the class laid into him with such fervor and zeal that to say the poor guy was sliced and diced and then crushed and flushed would be an understatement. The prof took the basic elements of any political philosophy and demonstrated how the writings of Rand totally fell far far short of achieving that designation.
And to identify things properly is always constructive.
And please remember the context of my remarks were in this thread using a comparison of Hubbards ersatz sci-fi religious mumbo jumbo to that of Rand. While she comes off a bit saner and mundane in that comparison, there still is plenty of disfunction there just the same.
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