Is there a way to vote all the right wing, Ayn Rand loving fuckwads off the island?

[MrScorpio]

I'm pretty much fed up with their bullshit today.

[geardaddy]

1. Today only?

Their movie's coming out on Friday. Maybe that's why they're talking a lot.

[mikeytherat]

2. I'm all for it - the results will be hilarious:

mikey_the_rat

[Deep13]

3. Sadly, no.

:(

[shraby]

4. Tell the younger generation that the election in 2012 is a

reality show and it's time to vote the losers off the island, they'll get all excited about the reality show and go for it.

[JuniperLea]

14. Good idea!

But you need to be careful how it is explained or they might vote for keeping them. Sorta like the No on H8 campaign, where no means yes.

[KamaAina]

5. Can't we just convince them it's time to "go Galt"?

Buh-bye! :hi:

[EC]

6. As in when Johnny hid away to sulk?

Poor John Galt...

[ocd liberal]

7. I wish! n/t

[Chris_Texas]

8. Ayn Rand would have felt more at home at DU than Free Republic

She would have endorsed Obama, as he represented himself, over McCain. She considered the most evil and dangerous form of government to be CORPORATISM, and based upon her views on religion she would certainly have ranked theocracy up at the top of the list as well -- meaning that she would have found virtually everything about the modern GOP as horrific as most of us here do.

What most people do not understand is that Rand was NOT writing about nor advocating for any particular economic theory; she was writing about a moral philosophy with human liberty as it's foundation. The evnts in her stories were not intended to be some utopian goal, but to illustrate the ethical questions.

Rand was born in Russia in 1905. She was twelve when the russian revolution, with all its associated horrors, swept the country. Her family's business was seized by the Bolsheviks and they were forced to flee. During her teen years she faced the horrors of starvation on many occassions, deciding at this point in her life that she was an athiest and that she valued human life and reason as the highest possible values.

In other words, Rand grew up under the most oppressive and evil leftist regime in human history, at the very height of the worst horrors that it produced. She witnessed and suffered through the crushing poverty, mass murder, and terror -- managing to attend the university and eventually, despite being purged from the student ranks due to her father's pre-revolution afffluence, graduated -- having majored in history and philosophy.

Judging her by the standards of affluent twenty-first century American liberal sensibilities is as unfair as criticizing Lincoln as a racist. What Rand valued most was LIFE and the human mind. She was an advocate of FREEDOM. She was a strong supporter of human rights and the rights (including the sexual rights and liberation) of women. She loathed racism of any kind. She stood up for women and minorities at a time when both were viewed by the public at large as second class citizens at best. She was loathed for her stand against religion.

Rand was the enemy of the three most powerful groups on earth: Government, Religion, and global corporations. As a result, throughout her life and continuing to this day, she has faced a constant stream of hate. Most people, including many of her loudest critics, have no idea what she actually advocated -- they base their conclusions about her philosophy (which they have never read let alone understand) upon the actions of some of the characters in her stories.

[ismnotwasm]

10. Yeah?

So explain how Objectivism is a 'good thing'

[Chris_Texas]

13. Did I poke your illusions? Sorry abou that.

In any case, I am quite sure that you are not interested in a discussion of objectivism since it is almost certain you don't have even the slightest idea what that even is.

[ismnotwasm]

18. *sigh*

Just because I loathe and despise it doesn't mean I don't know what it is. I know what conservatism is, and I loathe and despise that too

[provis99]

11. oh, piss off.

Go put a Galt sticker on a mailbox.

[geardaddy]

12. Go galt, then.

She was a meth-head and idolized a child-rapist and murderer.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

9. There Is............But It Will Require...........

.............all the "principled" non-voters who are currently holding their collective breath and stamping their widdle footsies to come down off their high horses and show up at the voting booths in November for the next several years.

[JVS]

15. Aren't they supposed to leave the island of their own accord?

[opihimoimoi]

16. There is only one way...over come their emotional tripe with solid TRUTH

[Zorra]

17. She became all the rage with people that desperately wanted to be intellectuals in the 80's,

but, alas, plainly lacked the intelligence for the title.

[mod mom]

19. Make it off the planet & l'll agree!

:hi: