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To: JohnM who wrote (333687)	11/12/2009 12:57:05 PM
From: mph	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 794415

Ultimately the Objectivist movement failed for the same reason that communism failed: it tried to make its people live by the dictates of a totalizing ideology that failed to honor the realities of human existence. Rand’s movement devolved into a corrupt and cruel parody of itself. She herself never won sustained personal influence within mainstream conservatism or the Republican Party. Her ideological purity and her unstable personality prevented her from forming lasting coalitions with anybody who disagreed with any element of her catechism. The author is pointing out exactly why Obama and his lefties will fail, in case you didn't catch it. You might try to discuss the flaws of "totalizing ideology" with your fellow NYT devotees, but they won't understand it.

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