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Wed Aug 15, 2012, 11:38 PM

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48. Haha! Nice one.

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Why is there no liberal Ayn Rand? Conservatives have a canon, why don't liberals? [View all]	salvorhardin	Aug 2012	OP
Because you can't herd cats.	hifiguy	Aug 2012	#1
Ayn Rand hated conservatives. She fought Buckley and campaigned against Reagan.	banned from Kos	Aug 2012	#3
You have to remember, Ayn loved no one but herself! nt	nanabugg	Aug 2012	#68
I can agree with this.	Lone_Star_Dem	Aug 2012	#59
B. F. Skinner?	KansDem	Aug 2012	#2
Because it's always easier to focus on what you think is WRONG	SoCalDem	Aug 2012	#4
I was thinking about what you just said last few days	NNN0LHI	Aug 2012	#24
Noam Chomsky (nt)	Shankapotomus	Aug 2012	#5
No - you have to write fiction that millions will read.	banned from Kos	Aug 2012	#6
Ayn Rand also wrote non-fiction	Shankapotomus	Aug 2012	#9
True, but no one starts out reading her Objectivist manuals	banned from Kos	Aug 2012	#12
Well, one can say that first presenting her philosophy	Shankapotomus	Aug 2012	#18
I must disagree. People learn the Gospels and turn to the philosophy of Christ	banned from Kos	Aug 2012	#19
Yeah, him and about 3000000 others. Slate and Beverly Gage didnt do a lot of research here.	stevenleser	Aug 2012	#10
Another one I think who is slowly coming up the ranks is	Shankapotomus	Aug 2012	#32
D'accord.....Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn.	marmar	Aug 2012	#11
I wouldn't consider Chomsky a liberal, though.	white_wolf	Aug 2012	#46
they do. first of all, most great literature is liberal. Ever read any EM Forster?	cali	Aug 2012	#7
I agree with you that most great lit is liberal. Steinbeck and Orwell also come to mind.	Chiyo-chichi	Aug 2012	#44
True: "most great literature is liberal." The reason is...	FSogol	Aug 2012	#72
Jesus	NightWatcher	Aug 2012	#8
+1 How much more obvious could it be? nt	DCKit	Aug 2012	#66
+1	freshwest	Oct 2012	#86
Pragmatism/doing what what works >>>> Rigid ideology	reformist2	Aug 2012	#13
This is it.	whatchamacallit	Aug 2012	#33
I think Ayn Rand is close to satanic.	Quantess	Aug 2012	#14
“I give people Ayn Rand with trappings”	Tom Ripley	Aug 2012	#53
+1	freshwest	Oct 2012	#87
I agree with you, but even DeSade was a better writer than Rand (n/t)	Tom Ripley	Oct 2012	#89
Oh, hell yes he was a better writer.	Quantess	Oct 2012	#90
because repubs welcome conservatives & dems do not welcome liberals these days? nt	msongs	Aug 2012	#15
the same reason there is no liberal Rush Limbaugh...	Sen. Walter Sobchak	Aug 2012	#16
Excellent!	SheilaT	Aug 2012	#23
Well Put. (nt)	Paladin	Aug 2012	#26
Donnie shut the fu.....	DLine	Aug 2012	#27
nicely stated.	ChairmanAgnostic	Aug 2012	#31
You said it far more economically than I did.	hifiguy	Aug 2012	#34
Money and coporate America	DemocracyInaction	Aug 2012	#17
Thinking that attempts a broader unifying picture of the Left	sibelian	Aug 2012	#20
'Ishmael' by Daniel Quinn.	banned from Kos	Aug 2012	#21
You mean why isn't there a psychopathic liberal writer who demands a cult like following?	Tommy_Carcetti	Aug 2012	#22
Post removed	Post removed	Aug 2012	#25
Apparently	salvorhardin	Aug 2012	#39
Your excerpt does seem to boil down to 'liberals don't read'	muriel_volestrangler	Aug 2012	#67
Thats what Star Trek is for	TheKentuckian	Aug 2012	#47
One knows they are searching and thinks; the other thinks they know and is finished searching.	RadiationTherapy	Aug 2012	#28
Find two DU members who agree.	Speck Tater	Aug 2012	#29
I suspect even the same person with two different usernames won't agree with himself. eom	yawnmaster	Aug 2012	#36
ROFL. The left hand sock puppet knows not what the right hand sock puppet believes. nt	Speck Tater	Aug 2012	#45
Liberal canons are rapidly branded as "radical"	randr	Aug 2012	#30
Does Bob Dylan count?	Motown_Johnny	Aug 2012	#35
Liberals are more musical!	Tabasco_Dave	Aug 2012	#42
We don't want one.	Iggo	Aug 2012	#37
So nice to see so many commenters illustrating the author's point	salvorhardin	Aug 2012	#38
Because liberals do not believe in fantasy bullshit when it comes to running the government.	madinmaryland	Aug 2012	#40
You mean a liberal who advocates extreme altruism, helping the poor and sick?	NickB79	Aug 2012	#41
Haha! Nice one.	joshcryer	Aug 2012	#48
Jesus Christ - socialist	upi402	Aug 2012	#51
+100,000! And Ayn Rand hates Him.	Zalatix	Aug 2012	#61
Because "liberalism" was the default position for most of the last century	Spider Jerusalem	Aug 2012	#43
Good post	YoungDemCA	Aug 2012	#49
Excellent post (n/t)	Tom Ripley	Aug 2012	#55
Why would we want a shitty novelist and pseudo-philosopher?	Major Nikon	Aug 2012	#50
Because we have read more than ONE book?	Tom Ripley	Aug 2012	#52
Fear	pscot	Aug 2012	#54
FDR (except 1937)? Jesus Christ?	MannyGoldstein	Aug 2012	#56
We find truth to be a continuously unfolding process, rather than an instantaneous single point.	JFN1	Aug 2012	#57
We don't think in canon	JCMach1	Aug 2012	#58
Charles Dickens maybe?	limpyhobbler	Aug 2012	#60
Steinbeck was the first one I thought of.	LuvNewcastle	Aug 2012	#64
Exactly. Steinbeck said everything that to needs be said, eloquently.	LiberalAndProud	Aug 2012	#69
Sinclair Lewis is another one.	LuvNewcastle	Aug 2012	#70
Mark Twain is the one I'd pick	Major Nikon	Aug 2012	#75
I agree.	LuvNewcastle	Aug 2012	#81
From the same era as Ayn Rand (textbook sociopath)	lapfog_1	Aug 2012	#62
Modern "left" is mainly not leftist at all.	David__77	Aug 2012	#63
David Simon, "The Wire."	McDiggy	Aug 2012	#65
Steinem, Baldwin, Carson	BumRushDaShow	Aug 2012	#71
Dickens, Twain, Steinbeck, Vonnegut	FSogol	Aug 2012	#73
Now we don't, its because Democrats think for themselves and don't submit to dogma	1-Old-Man	Aug 2012	#74
Exactly. Repubs can't seem to function without listening to one source.	Jennicut	Aug 2012	#76
ayn rand was a liberal	BOG PERSON	Aug 2012	#77
The Right Claims Her Now	Dirty Socialist	Aug 2012	#80
then it's time to ask:	BOG PERSON	Aug 2012	#84
Stanley Milgram	Dirty Socialist	Aug 2012	#78
FDR	WilliamPitt	Aug 2012	#79
And his VP, Henry Wallace:	freshwest	Oct 2012	#88
ayn rand embodied the spirit of the 60s	BOG PERSON	Aug 2012	#82
What about Jack London	Boxcar Willie	Aug 2012	#83
Don't London's novels	Shankapotomus	Aug 2012	#85

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