The Truth About GOP Hero Ayn Rand
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Uploaded on Apr 18, 2011
A film adaptation of the 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, opened this past Friday. The release of the film has coincided with a resurgence of popularity for Rand on the American Right. The trailer for Atlas Shrugged had its world premier at this year's CPAC conference, the Tea Party group FreedomWorks has rolled out a massive campaign to promote the film, and the story's opening line — "Who is John Galt" — has appeared on numerous signs at Tea Party rallies.
At the same time, some of the right's leading political and media lights have heaped praise upon Rand. The author of the Republicans' new budget plan to gut Medicare and Medicaid, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), has said Rand is the reason he entered politics. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) have both declared themselves devotees of her writing. Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has his law clerks watch the film adaptation of Rand's book The Fountainhead. She's also received accolades from right-wing pundits Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, John Stossel, and Andrew Napolitano.
During her lifetime, Rand advocated "the virtue of selfishness," declared altruism to be "evil," opposed Medicare and all forms of government support for the middle-class and the poor, and condemned Christianity for advocating love and compassion for the less fortunate:
Rand also dismissed the feminist movement as a "false" and "phony" issue, said a female commander in chief would be "unspeakable," characterized Arabs as "almost totally primitive savages," and called government efforts to aid the handicapped and educate "subnormal children" an attempt to "bring everybody to the level of the handicapped."
As for the new Atlas Shrugged film, it made $1.7 million in its first three days in theaters, reasonable but unspectacular numbers for a limited release on 299 screens. But box-office watchers looking to see if the Tea Party represents a discrete market would have been disappointed. The movie grossed just $5,608 per theater over that time period, hardly a sign that groups were buying out theaters or that the movie was a pop culture phenomenon. By contrast, An Inconvenient Truth took in $70,333 per theater during its first five days on screens. That number fell to $17,615 per theater in its second week, but that number is still higher than Atlas Shrugged's more widely-available debut. And Atlas Shrugged's numbers look positively puny next to another culture-war adaptation of a popular book, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, which raked in $125,185,971 over its first five days in theaters.
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Tony Starks 1 day ago
Ayn Rand was a racist. It must be said that racism and Ayn Rand go hand in hand. The Randian contradictions are interesting. She rejects Christianity and Jesus Christ and I would imagine Judaism and so one. But Western culture has Christianity as one of its central pillars. Christianity is so pervasive that you can look in any direction, art, music, poetry, politics, wars and science, and see a Christian within it or a Christianity underneath the surface.
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Tony Starks 1 day ago
And do you know every government action, worker, government efforts and achievements?
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Tony Starks 1 day ago
You cannot be a Catholic and be a follower of Ayn Rand. Paul Ryan and Sean Hannity are Catholics. This just reveals how stupid these two guys are.
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wiseoldsnail 4 days ago
she used much more than she paid in. given her politics, she should've taken back what she paid in, and not a penny more ... and she should've done so publicly. instead, she privately took whatever she could get : much more than she paid in ... to get what she wanted.
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wiseoldsnail 4 days ago
you might wanna look up the word. the very definition includes the negative connotation ...
that's the meaning of the word. your private definition doesn't apply.
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wiseoldsnail 4 days ago
what? you're attacking me with a childish insult for stating the truth?
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Degaribay 6 days ago
So you know the products of every single businessman, every single company, and every single small business: Just what I thought you are an idiot.
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EgadsNo 6 days ago
lol make that content not contempt
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EgadsNo 6 days ago
You might point out that is not true piety or altruism, but the only thing true altruism, giving away everything you own and need is a dead end street. If you work hard to ensure you, your spouse and or family existence its okay to say you want that so you can be contempt in having it- and then be afforded the luxury of being in a position to give to others. I do not care if its because you want to provide a better future for generations or strengthen local social connections- its prideful.
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