re: #8 HappyWarrior

The thing that will always stick with me about Rand is how she sees charity and altruism as immoral.

re: #7 Virginia Plain

her simple ideology is twisted by sociopaths to use however they want to. It’s no surprise that Randian philosophy disproportionately attracts sociopaths.

Rand herself had a thing for a child murderer and used him as her role model in The Fountainhead. I kid you not.

Ayn Rand, Hugely Popular Author and Inspiration to Right-Wing Leaders, Was a Big Admirer of Serial Killer
Her works are treated as gospel by right-wing powerhouses like Alan Greenspan and Clarence Thomas, but Ayn Rand found early inspiration in 1920’s murderer William Hickman.