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" ... The worst thing you can say about libertarians is that they are intellectually immature, frozen in the worldview many of them absorbed from Ayn Rand. Like other ideologues, libertarians react to the world failing to conform to their model by asking where the world went wrong. ..."
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" ... The worst thing you can say about libertarians is that they are intellectually immature, frozen in the worldview many of them absorbed from Ayn Rand. Like other ideologues, libertarians react to the world failing to conform to their model by asking where the world went wrong. ..."“The rebellion on the populist right against the results of the 2020 election was partly a cynical, knowing effort by political operators and their hype men in the media to steal an election or at least get rich trying. But it was also the tragic consequence of the informational malnourishment so badly afflicting the nation. ... Americans gorge themselves daily on empty informational calories, indulging their sugar fixes of self-affirming half-truths and even outright lies.'”
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Giving loans to people who can't pay them back in the interest of political correctness is what caused most of this mess-a liberal ideology that a bunch of republicrats (as Royal likes to call them) bought into.Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. John Wooden -
If you want a critical review of Ayn Rand (in this case her book Atlas Shrugged) and the strict libertarian point of view…read this opinion piece….written in 1957 by Whittaker Chambers….
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That's a fine piece of criticism. Powerful stuff.Originally posted by Maggie“The rebellion on the populist right against the results of the 2020 election was partly a cynical, knowing effort by political operators and their hype men in the media to steal an election or at least get rich trying. But it was also the tragic consequence of the informational malnourishment so badly afflicting the nation. ... Americans gorge themselves daily on empty informational calories, indulging their sugar fixes of self-affirming half-truths and even outright lies.'”
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So, he's basically blaming libertarian ideology for the bank crisis by pointing out that Alan Greenspan is openly libertarian. But if libertarianism is so free-market and anti-regulation, as the author suggests, why would a legitimate libertarian support a fiat monetary system and centralized control of interest rates?
I'm not a libertarian, but I've read enough to get the impression that many of them consider Greenspan a sellout.
The Newsweek author is doing what he can to shift a majority of the blame to the right side of the political spectrum. And what better way than to point a finger at a group/ideology that both major parties dislike?
I guess it's a nice try. But blaming one a trio of men for not stepping in front of the blatant recklessness of a much larger group of lawmakers, without acknowledging the role of the latter, is disengenuous at best.Comment
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Indeed…so much so that Ayn Rand refused to attend any gathering in which William F. Buckley, Jr. attended…..what does that tell you??????Originally posted by WuzeeComment
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