Ayn Rand vs Conservatives

Great vid, great impersonation at the end there. When I closed my eyes, I thought she was in the room:)

Good vid!

nesteph,
Looks like folks like us are in the minority big time...57 views?? This country is fucked. I agree that Ayn would have much to disagree with G.B. & R.L....however, who else is exposing the communists around Obama? Nobody. Who else is looking out for individual rights on a national level???? Even though I listen to G.B. (not R.L.), I agree, Ayn Rand would have nothing to do with these so called "conservatives" who drape themselves with socialist leaning religious ideas...great vid!

The conservatives preach self-sacrifice to God. But, b/c God doesn't exist, they become selfish on Earth (the Protestant work ethic), while still paying lip service to service to God.

The Liberals, sensing their hypocricy, look for a more consistent way to sacrifice. They do away with God, and replace the poor as the object of sacrifice. The poor are real. This leads them to become socialists...

Great video, I totally agree.

I think the confusion lies in the fact that Ayn Rand was a very vocal whore for capitalism. This locks right into the right wing talking points. Ayn Rand quotes a lot of Mises stuff when it comes to economics. The conservatives use the exact same rhetoric.

Right now, in my mind, this was probably one of Ayn Rand's biggest mistakes. I think she was too much of a jaded anti-statist. Her personal experience going through the Bolsheviks, in her youth, ruined her.

If you listen to that interview you're talking about. She said that the conservatives in her time hated her because of the fact that she was an atheist, and also that she really wasn't like what the Modern Day "Conservatives" are today. I use that term loosely because these guys are in no way conservative at all. I don't particularly agree with Ayn Rand's theory of Objectivism, but she was in no way what the Becks, Limbaughs, or Hannity's are today.