The Partisans - ZOMBIE AYN RAND

From the Paul Ryan Institute of Political Science--they've created a MONSTER! ...Which could make the GOP convention an exciting place this year (see Ron Paul zombies, above).

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Directed by Andy Cobb
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Written by Andy Cobb and Maribeth Monroe
Produced by Michael Damasks
Director of Photography: Carlos Oropeza
PA/2nd Camera: Nathan Ossman
AD Matt Chapman

Ayn Rand: Maribeth Monroe
http://twitter.com/#!/maribethmonroe
Narrator: Andy Cobb
Scientists: Ron West
Steve Kaminski
Rock Ellis
Student: Gina Lohman
Rachel Maddow: Patricia Villetto
Jesus: Craig Phillip Conant
Ron Paul Zombies: Angie Light, John Mahr, Gabe Fiscale, Tripp Jones, Gina Lohman, Terese Aiello, Russ Burd, Alexis Notabartolo, Chris Rubino, Mary Venus, Nick Dossman.

Ron Paul has announced he is ending his campaign...kinda. He's going to stop spending money on primaries, which is a little like Kim Kardashian announcing she's going to stop spending all that time thinking about organic chemistry. It's a switch, but only kinda sorta.

And we KNOW, Ron Paul people. It's all because Ron Paul is not just a candidate, he's an idea. Or a movement. Or whatever, he's certainly never going to be President of the United States. But he will persist.

The animating force behind Ron Paul's endurance has never been campaign spending, it is indeed an idea. A really shitty idea, promoted by Right Wingers as a free market utopia without the horrible burdens of stable currency or child labor laws.

The originator of this idea is occasionally enthusiastically embraced by conservatives as providing a consistent philosophical basis for shitty policy. Her name is Ayn Rand, and people like Paul Ryan just love love love her...until they remember that she hates their religion and thinks it's silly. Then the walk back begins.

But having introduced Rand in the upper hierarchy of the Republican Party, she may not be so easy to dismiss. The ghost--or zombie, if you will--of Ayn Rand lingers in the Republican party, a reminder that it is a party with deep divisions--and policy based on ideas that don't just contradict each other, but are downright willing to fight it out in a back alley at night.

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BRAAAAAAINS

[anahatatutu]

'Society's highest earners' ...yeah....right. - The march backward into neofeudalism continues as a march to triumph in some imaginations. If ONLY the effin billionaires would all take a hike and stop rigging the game, maybe we could get back to making the world better for the 99% instead of catering to their deluded and delirious whims. :\. Scientists would do a better job than money calling the shots on this planet.

[Knight Zervion]

sheeps everywhere.....

[xReefermadnessx]

Saying the 1st amendment means nothing because it's not properly enforced, is absurd. Yes, we've lost our rights, but that is not the fault of the Constitution, it is the fault of those who infringe on those rights, and those who allow authoritarians to infringe on those rights. There is little capitalism left today, what we have is fascism, and it is in no way the fault of libertarians. There is nothing wrong with corporations, it's corporations in bed with the govt that is the problem.

[Sheepytown .]

Don't play pseudo-intellectual with me. If the 1st Amendment meant anything, all of our peaceful protests wouldn't have been plagued with police brutality and censorship. They don't "protect" our rights, that's a lie. We have no "freedom of speech", we have no "freedom of assembly", we have no "freedom of press". There is no free market. Fascism is capitalism in decay, and capitalism without corporations is like an ant farm without ants. 'Classical liberalism' is just beginners fascism for kids.

[xReefermadnessx]

For someone that knows so much, you understand so little. You claim to understand that you are born with natural human rights, yet you spit on the laws meant to protect and secure those rights. You claim free market capitalists who hate corporatism are fascists. Me thinks you don't know what fascism is. You are indeed, a very lost, very confused sheep.

[Sheepytown .]

You say that because you have no argument. Prove me wrong. American "libertarianism" is nothing more than a deluded fad among angsty teenagers anyway. Ayn Rand never stood for freedom. She stood for racism, mysogyny, and corporate dictatorship. We as human beings shouldn't need a piece of fucking paper to tell us that we're free. The DPRK constitution guarantees "freedom of speech". Is it enforced? No. It's a written lie and the same goes for the U.S constitution. No freedoms, just privilege.

[xReefermadnessx]

lol, you are one lost sheep.

[zoinksgraphics]

BTW, who was Maddow trying to save? ("lean forward" - Nice touch)

[zoinksgraphics]

Awesome job! Thank you!!

[Dena Campbell]

A piece of paper that holds no real power? It's the law of the land, established by the People as a restraint on our Government to prevent tyrants from dictating to us. You object to our Constitution and therefore an enemy to liberty and freedom, which that "piece of paper' orders the Government to protect. You misunderstand the word 'corporate'. The Federal Government use to be in Philadelphia, but in 1800, Washington, DC was incorporated as the new location. You are in error.

[Travis Mamone]

Quick, we need to raise up an army of Zizek clones to stop Ayn Rand's zombie apocalypse!