Stephen Colbert on Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged:
Colbert: this is “just another example of the little guy trying to keep the man down.”
Also, this blog post is good: http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/atlas-wanked-fiction-fraud-52-years. Says David Neiwert: “Watch out for ideologues. Ideas are more important to them than people.”
Ayn Rand via John Galt in Atlas Shrugged says to the poor, “You have nothing to offer us. We do not need you.” This is consistent with Rand’s views, as outlined in her 1959 interview with Mike Wallace: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ukJiBZ8_4k
In other words, the poor (aka “the moochers who claim your product by tears”) are entirely personally responsible for their position in life and need to stop sponging off of the rich (via progressive tax rates, welfare, nationalized health care, etc). They deserve any ill fortune that comes to them due to lack of money and resources, because clearly they lack money and resources due to their own laziness and lack of initiative. Naturally they should accept responsibility and be personally accountable for a condition (poverty, destitution, etc) that they brought upon themselves. This concept is well outlined in the picture below… just add in “libertarianism” and that about sums it up.
This could just as easily read: LIBERTARIANISM
