Galt's Gulch

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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 10 years, 6 months ago
    An excellent article. Thank you for posting it.

    A contradiction he points to with conservatives that I have yet to get a satisfactory answer on when I have asked people is: How can you constantly say you are for smaller government and less regulation, except when it comes to what goes on in the bedroom or who you marry.
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    • Posted by khalling 10 years, 6 months ago
      you should go read the article at Real Clear Politics. The author, I swear, could be a liberal. Full of emoting, discrediting with false information-not one fact is in the entire article-just a big fat hissy fit. Here is one line:
      "Regardless, Ayn Rand, plucky from beyond the grave, just won’t go away—most recently, she’s surfaced in multiple film installments of “Atlas Shrugged,” in an upcoming off-Broadway play based on her book “Anthem,” and in multiple television talk shows—and her fans are, shall we say, intense."
      How intense are we?
      "(Team Rand’s cheerleaders—unlike those of, say, Team Hayek or Team Mises—are also the most likely to send you mean, anonymous, lipstick-written notes in the locker room.)"
      hahahahaha ha


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  • Posted by straightlinelogic 10 years, 6 months ago
    It was a great article, but I'm afraid that if, after seventy years, the right hasn't learned anything from Ayn Rand, it is not going to. Her logic is too much a threat to their religion and their reflexive political beliefs, which usually don't amount to much more than rote sloganeering. If that seems too harsh, watch Fox TV for an hour or read the Wall Street Journal's editorials for a week.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 10 years, 6 months ago
    There's a lot in the article concerning the religious right and trying to get some understanding and group activity joining that group of conservatives with the libertarian portion of the Republican party. An objectivist can readily see and grasp that a man's rights by life, his ability to reason for himself, his freedom to act on that reason for his own good, and the right to own himself are the keystones to a happy and successful life. To a lesser extent, most libertarians grasp most of the basics of those ideas.

    Yet what conservatives fail to grasp is that those in the religious right don't see it that way. For them, man's life belongs to the god that created it, his ability to reason is subjugated to his god's rules and a chance for immortality with that god, and that man (in totality) should not have the freedom to act in ways not acceptable to their god.

    How can that kind of gap possibly be spanned, even in the supposed interest of limited government? The religious right don't really want a smaller government--they want a big enough government to enforce the rules of their god.

    There is no room for a union or compromise party of the religious right with a movement for man's natural rights, liberty, limited government, and a free market. Such an idea is folly at best and at least, a total abandonment of principle in favor of pragmatism to an objectivist.
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    • Posted by khalling 10 years, 6 months ago
      for me, I am chilled by the concept that one lives in this world not for this life-but for another life-after. It allows for much skewed decision making. Such as happiness in this life, the value of suffering now, etc. We need individuals only making their decisions based on reason for their life on Earth.
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