Very admirable defence of Ayn Rand. There is a whole host of nutcases on SI who hate her led by Koan, Dale Baker, X the Unknown, gregoree and Brumar. The fact they are against her is all I need to know that she is representing something good, true and worthwhile.
They will say she was a smoker, committed suicide and was a vicious serial killer all to deflect the central point she was against government intrusion. All of the above SI players live for and love massive government intervention. Considering who is against her it is hard not to be for her. What they really hate and the point cannot be made often enough is she was against the government having absolute power. This is the reason for the unlimited attack ad nauseam.
"Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals—that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government—that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizens’ protection against the government." AR
"The American system is not a democracy. It is a constitutional republic. A democracy, if you attach meaning to terms, is a system of unlimited majority rule . . . a form of collectivism, which denies individual rights . . . . The American system is a constitutionally limited republic, restricted to the protection of individual rights. In such a system, majority rule is applicable only to lesser details, such as the selection of certain personnel. But the majority has no say over the basic principles governing the government. It has no power to ask for or gain the infringement of individual rights."
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