I agree with your post. I enjoyed the movies and the book too until the rambling preaching. She did hit the nail in the head in some areas where inept government bureaucrats are seeking ever increasing controls over our lives and businesses. Somewhere there should be a middle way. Every time I vote I have to hold my nose. Maybe there should be a Catholic Party in our politics.Ayn’s idea is that society became so corrupt that John Galt felt a moral call to remove his intelligence and his inventions far from that corruption. He set up his Galt’s Gulch to hide from the corruption and invited others to do the same. They were free from Government sanction, taxation, etc… and hence flourished.
Ayn’s philosophy is labeled Objectivism. It’s interesting, and I agree with some of it, but she mocks the idea of God, altruism, etc… She misses the fact that her philosophy could only work if there is a God who provides true moral framework.
I’m not impressed by either party, really. They all kowtow to Big Business. The Democrats just do a better job of hiding it. Most of the time anyway, goodness I don’t think anybody was expecting Hillary Clinton to be so blatant.Are you speaking of Democrats or Republicans? Because while I don’t believe in the capitalistic altruism of Ayn Rand, all I see in the places where the ideas / policies of the “party that helps the people” is social and economic devastation.
Maybe so. Probably so, even. But sooner or later we’ll have to talk turkey on policy. People have to create policy and to me it makes sense to effectuate policies that truly do protect and enable people rather than Pro-Corporate Party-R and Pro-Corporate Party-D arguing around the margins over which special interest they should cater to today.In reality, there is no human salvation for the people, and only when we turn back to God will our situation as a country / world improve.
Unpopular candidates get chased out of office. It is possible. Tom Daschle and Eric Cantor were both thought to be untouchable. Those assumptions lasted right up until the moment they got voted out of office by a cranky electorate. And then their defeats were treated as “inevitable”. But they weren’t inevitable. Until they became inevitable, that is, because We the People were unhappy with their job performance.I’ll take the Greedy capitalist over the greedy political class, every single time. You see a Greedy Capitalist has to keep being successful to stay greedy. Where as the Greedy political class only has to keep getting reelected. They can be a total failure but as long as they can convince people it someone else fault they are failure, they can get relelcted.
+1.End of the day, term limits will solve for a lot of DC’s corruption. The interesting thing is everybody is in favor of term limits… unless it affects their personal favorite Congressmen, and then maybe term limits aren’t such a good idea after all.
Or if they did approve them, odds are the term “limit” would be something silly along the lines of “no more than 100 terns” or some such.We will never get them now, because Congress would have to ratify them, and it is not going to torpedo its own gravy boat.
IDK. I think six terms in the HR and/or two in the Senate would be a good guideline.Or if they did approve them, odds are the term “limit” would be something silly along the lines of “no more than 100 terns” or some such.
Three terns in Congress is the very most anybody should aspire to in my opinion. It’s public service; it isn’t supposed to be a career.