Romney Exposes Inner Ayn Rand: the best explanation yet for the self-destruction we are witnessing of the GOP Party
http://open.salon.com/blog/ted_frier/2012/09/19/romney_exposes_inner_ayn_rand
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 3:30PM
Romney Exposes Inner Ayn Rand
“He does not understand, because he has no organ for understanding, the necessity, meaning, or importance of other people.”
You might think the statement above is just one more stone among the rock pile of insults being hurled at the hapless Mitt Romney for his crushingly stupid decision to tell us what he really thinks about the American people.
Instead, the statement is a description of a protagonist in a novel by Ayn Rand, whose cultivation of the cult of selfishness among those who now imagine themselves to be superior beings may provide the best explanation we have yet for the self-destruction we are witnessing of the Republican Party.
“You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your condition which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you,” conservative economists Ludwig von Mises once enthused to Rand.
Mitt Romney did Ayn Rand one better. He told the bottom half it was feeble and unfit and did so in the middle of a campaign in which he hoped to convince those 47% to make him their president.
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