Showing posts with label Ayn Rand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ayn Rand. Show all posts
March 24, 2018
December 4, 2015
Our Ayn Randian dystopia: Here’s the secret five-step plan to privatize everything
Our Ayn Randian dystopia: Here’s the secret five-step plan to privatize everything
"Law enforcement, education, health care, water management, government itself — all have been or are being privatized. People with money get the best of each service. At the heart of privatization is a disdain for government and a distrust of society, and a mindless individualism that leaves little room for cooperation. Adherents of privatization demand ‘freedom’ unless they need the government to intervene on their behalf."
"Law enforcement, education, health care, water management, government itself — all have been or are being privatized. People with money get the best of each service. At the heart of privatization is a disdain for government and a distrust of society, and a mindless individualism that leaves little room for cooperation. Adherents of privatization demand ‘freedom’ unless they need the government to intervene on their behalf."
November 21, 2015
Paul Krugman: The GOP Candidates' Crackpot, Ayn Rand-Inspired Economic Theories @alternet
Paul Krugman: The GOP Candidates' Crackpot, Ayn Rand-Inspired Economic Theories @alternet
"Republican economics is as impervious to evidence and reason as Republican science."
"Republican economics is as impervious to evidence and reason as Republican science."
October 10, 2015
5 Reasons Why Paul Ryan is One of the Most Despicable and Cowardly Members of Congress
5 Reasons Why Paul Ryan is One of the Most Despicable and Cowardly Members of Congress
"1. The seemingly proud way in which he shows off his disdain for the poor: Paul Ryan is a disciple of Ayn Rand, a woman who was basically a sociopath who believed in survival of the fittest. It’s fitting that Ryan chose her as a role model considering she was also a massive hypocrite. Ayn Rand rallied against government, despite heavily relying on government programs toward the end of her life. Just as Ayn Rand basically hated the poor, Paul Ryan shares that disdain for the poorest and weakest among us. Take for instance Ryan blocking poor people from testifying at a hearing about poverty in America, or when he attacked free school lunches by insinuating that parents who don’t make bag lunches for their children don’t care as much for them as the parents who do. Then let’s not forget that he’s someone who’s constantly pushing for major cuts to entitlement programs, frequently claiming the country can’t afford them – while also being someone who’s literally voted for trillions in spending to fund wars and bail out Wall Street."
"1. The seemingly proud way in which he shows off his disdain for the poor: Paul Ryan is a disciple of Ayn Rand, a woman who was basically a sociopath who believed in survival of the fittest. It’s fitting that Ryan chose her as a role model considering she was also a massive hypocrite. Ayn Rand rallied against government, despite heavily relying on government programs toward the end of her life. Just as Ayn Rand basically hated the poor, Paul Ryan shares that disdain for the poorest and weakest among us. Take for instance Ryan blocking poor people from testifying at a hearing about poverty in America, or when he attacked free school lunches by insinuating that parents who don’t make bag lunches for their children don’t care as much for them as the parents who do. Then let’s not forget that he’s someone who’s constantly pushing for major cuts to entitlement programs, frequently claiming the country can’t afford them – while also being someone who’s literally voted for trillions in spending to fund wars and bail out Wall Street."
December 12, 2014
October 9, 2014
September 29, 2014
Must-See Morning Clip: John Oliver's Brilliant Takedown Asks 'How Is Ayn Rand Still a Thing?'
www.alternet.org/video/must-see-morning-clip-john-olivers-brilliant-takedown-how-ayn-rand-still-thing
"Other leading lights who like Rand: Paul Ryan and Rand Paul, who insist that everyone run out and buy copies of her books right now. But Shhh, don't tell them that she was pro-choice and thought Reagan was an intellectual non-entity."
"Other leading lights who like Rand: Paul Ryan and Rand Paul, who insist that everyone run out and buy copies of her books right now. But Shhh, don't tell them that she was pro-choice and thought Reagan was an intellectual non-entity."
September 20, 2014
September 18, 2014
Ayn Rand-Inspired Libertarian Utopia Implodes Almost Instantly. Who Could Have Predicted?
Ayn Rand-Inspired Libertarian Utopia Implodes Almost Instantly. Who Could Have Predicted?
"What happens when you try to recreate Ayn Rand's libertarian Galt's Gulch fantasy from ‘Atlas Shrugged?' Exactly what you'd think."
"What happens when you try to recreate Ayn Rand's libertarian Galt's Gulch fantasy from ‘Atlas Shrugged?' Exactly what you'd think."
September 15, 2014
Six Videos That Prove Ayn Rand Now Rules 'Christian' Conservatism
Six Videos That Prove Ayn Rand Now Rules 'Christian' Conservatism
"They have proven perfectly capable of ignoring everything they ought to dislike about Rand to embrace her ideas about poverty, charity, and the role of government in promoting the general welfare. Of course, what Rand has to say on these topics is very different from what Jesus says in the gospels. Here are six videos which demonstrate the way Rand's philosophy has been slipped into the right wing bible somewhere between Romans and Revelations."
"They have proven perfectly capable of ignoring everything they ought to dislike about Rand to embrace her ideas about poverty, charity, and the role of government in promoting the general welfare. Of course, what Rand has to say on these topics is very different from what Jesus says in the gospels. Here are six videos which demonstrate the way Rand's philosophy has been slipped into the right wing bible somewhere between Romans and Revelations."
August 3, 2014
Ayn Rand’s libertarian “Groundhog Day”: Billionaire greed, deregulation and the myth that markets aren’t free enough
Ayn Rand’s libertarian “Groundhog Day”: Billionaire greed, deregulation and the myth that markets aren’t free enough
"I am sure that the next few corporate scandals and financial crises will be just as shocking and unforeseen as were their predecessors. Of course, we have no way of knowing what those particular disasters will be until the day they crush our 401(k) accounts or ring the Fed’s bailout bell. But we can predict their broad outlines, thanks to the template provided by Enron.
The primary component of the modern scandal is deregulation, either by law or by the de facto dumbing down or hacking back of the supervisory offices of government."
"I am sure that the next few corporate scandals and financial crises will be just as shocking and unforeseen as were their predecessors. Of course, we have no way of knowing what those particular disasters will be until the day they crush our 401(k) accounts or ring the Fed’s bailout bell. But we can predict their broad outlines, thanks to the template provided by Enron.
The primary component of the modern scandal is deregulation, either by law or by the de facto dumbing down or hacking back of the supervisory offices of government."
May 6, 2014
James Polshek Believes Architecture Has an Obligation to Nurture--the Antithesis of Ayn Rand's Howard Roark
www.alternet.org/visions/james-polshek-believes-architecture-has-obligation-nurture-antithesis-ayn-rands-howard-roark
"Hundreds will honor James Polshek tomorrow, May 6, at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in the American Museum of Natural History. They come to celebrate his 60-year career as a visionary and a humanitarian, and to mark the publication of his 512 page tour-de-force Build, Memory."
"Hundreds will honor James Polshek tomorrow, May 6, at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in the American Museum of Natural History. They come to celebrate his 60-year career as a visionary and a humanitarian, and to mark the publication of his 512 page tour-de-force Build, Memory."
May 5, 2014
Diagnosing Paul Ryan’s psychopathy: Arrogant, manipulative, deceitful, remorseless
Diagnosing Paul Ryan’s psychopathy: Arrogant, manipulative, deceitful, remorseless
"If the GOP as a whole has pretty much given up on the whole “rebranding” thing, their 2012 vice presidential nominee, Congressman Paul Ryan, most definitely has not. In fact, rebranding is pretty much his thing, regardless of how credible — or incredible, actually — his efforts may be.
For years, Ryan touted himself as an avid Ayn Rand disciple, until he didn’t in early 2012, even calling it “an urban legend” that he had anything serious to do with Rand at all. He then tried to present the latest iteration of his draconian soak-the-poor/shower the rich budget proposal as grounded in Catholic social teaching, rather than Rand’s fiercely anti-Christian philosophy, a claim that the conservative U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops soundly rejected, writing that his proposed budget failed to meet certain “moral criteria” by disproportionately cutting programs that “serve poor and vulnerable people.”
Now, seeking to put all memory of the “47 percent” campaign behind him, Ryan’s trying to take that reinvention to a whole new level."
"If the GOP as a whole has pretty much given up on the whole “rebranding” thing, their 2012 vice presidential nominee, Congressman Paul Ryan, most definitely has not. In fact, rebranding is pretty much his thing, regardless of how credible — or incredible, actually — his efforts may be.
For years, Ryan touted himself as an avid Ayn Rand disciple, until he didn’t in early 2012, even calling it “an urban legend” that he had anything serious to do with Rand at all. He then tried to present the latest iteration of his draconian soak-the-poor/shower the rich budget proposal as grounded in Catholic social teaching, rather than Rand’s fiercely anti-Christian philosophy, a claim that the conservative U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops soundly rejected, writing that his proposed budget failed to meet certain “moral criteria” by disproportionately cutting programs that “serve poor and vulnerable people.”
Now, seeking to put all memory of the “47 percent” campaign behind him, Ryan’s trying to take that reinvention to a whole new level."
May 1, 2014
Piketty shrugged: How the French economist dashed libertarians’ Ayn Randian fantasies
Piketty shrugged: How the French economist dashed libertarians’ Ayn Randian fantasies
"What we are headed for, after several decades of free market mania, is superinequality, possibly such as the world has never seen. In this world, more and more wealth will be gained off the backs of the 99 percent, and less and less will be earned through hard work.
Which essentially means freedom for the rich, and no one else."
"What we are headed for, after several decades of free market mania, is superinequality, possibly such as the world has never seen. In this world, more and more wealth will be gained off the backs of the 99 percent, and less and less will be earned through hard work.
Which essentially means freedom for the rich, and no one else."
Thomas Piketty terrifies Paul Ryan: Behind the right’s desperate, laughable need to destroy an economist
Thomas Piketty terrifies Paul Ryan: Behind the right’s desperate, laughable need to destroy an economist
"Five years post-collapse, Piketty and Elizabeth Warren offer a way ahead. That's why the right must destroy them"
"Five years post-collapse, Piketty and Elizabeth Warren offer a way ahead. That's why the right must destroy them"
April 14, 2014
Republicans are Trying to Mix the Ideologies of Jesus Christ with an Atheist and That Doesn’t Make Any Sense
www.forwardprogressives.com/republicans-trying-mix-ideologies-jesus-christ-atheist-doesnt-make-sense/
"They want to call themselves the party of “Christian values,” while supporting economic policies based on the beliefs of a woman who lived her life in direct contrast to Christianity."
"They want to call themselves the party of “Christian values,” while supporting economic policies based on the beliefs of a woman who lived her life in direct contrast to Christianity."
March 14, 2014
Paul Ryan’s worthless attempt to save face: Why he’s still an overrated fraud
Paul Ryan’s worthless attempt to save face: Why he’s still an overrated fraud
"From Ayn Rand to Charles Murray, he thinks the rich deserve their wealth and the poor are to blame for their misery"
"From Ayn Rand to Charles Murray, he thinks the rich deserve their wealth and the poor are to blame for their misery"
March 4, 2014
Millionaire Paul Ryan Disguises Plan to Gut All Programs for the 99% as Helping the Poor
www.politicususa.com/2014/03/04/millionaire-paul-ryan-disguises-plan-gut-programs-99-helping-poor.html
"Ryan’s report is an archetype of a class warfare manifesto that would elicit highest praise from Ayn Rand for adhering to the ideology in her fictional work Atlas Shrugged. According to House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), “People used to say we couldn’t talk about these issues. Now they have become a framework.” Republicans have been talking about slashing or eliminating anti-poverty programs incessantly since Americans first elected an African American man as President, and the people are well-aware that any Republican framework with the words “reform” and “overhaul” means massive cuts or elimination. Any Republican plan to fight poverty has nothing to do with fighting poverty and everything to do with fighting anti-poverty programs with a view towards completely eradicating them."
"Ryan’s report is an archetype of a class warfare manifesto that would elicit highest praise from Ayn Rand for adhering to the ideology in her fictional work Atlas Shrugged. According to House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), “People used to say we couldn’t talk about these issues. Now they have become a framework.” Republicans have been talking about slashing or eliminating anti-poverty programs incessantly since Americans first elected an African American man as President, and the people are well-aware that any Republican framework with the words “reform” and “overhaul” means massive cuts or elimination. Any Republican plan to fight poverty has nothing to do with fighting poverty and everything to do with fighting anti-poverty programs with a view towards completely eradicating them."
February 28, 2014
The right’s Ayn Rand hypocrisy: Why their “religious” posture is a total sham
The right’s Ayn Rand hypocrisy: Why their “religious” posture is a total sham
"Speaking of Rand in 2005, Paul Ryan noted “I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are … It’s inspired me so much that it’s required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff.” Ryan went on to claim that Rand was the very reason he went into politics in the first place, and that it’s important for the future of America to return to Rand’s vision. Though he’s since repudiated – to some confusing degree – his former commitment to Rand, Ryan’s policies have undergone no significant changes between the before and after."
"Speaking of Rand in 2005, Paul Ryan noted “I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are … It’s inspired me so much that it’s required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff.” Ryan went on to claim that Rand was the very reason he went into politics in the first place, and that it’s important for the future of America to return to Rand’s vision. Though he’s since repudiated – to some confusing degree – his former commitment to Rand, Ryan’s policies have undergone no significant changes between the before and after."
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