The idiots are not only on the left. On the libertarian and “Objectivist” right, people are trying to argue that while Kamala Harris is evil and wrong about everything, a second term of President Trump would be worse. Why? Because, they claim, in the long run we’re better off with a catastrophically bad regime not associated with capitalism (Kamala/Walz) than we are with a President associated with capitalism, America and the Bill of Rights, but who may get a few things wrong.
The evasion here is staggering. It’s truly cataclysmic. They’re saying that for the sake of the long run, we must destroy ourselves. That, in essence, we must pull the trigger and blow our brains out — so that down the road, we’ll have a merry old time and get Thomas Jefferson (or John Galt) as President. Even though America will be incinerated by then (assuming it’s not too late already).
The Ayn Rand Institute has been promoting this approach to government, as have some others on the libertarian right, in the name of Ayn Rand, the brilliant author who predicted our present downfall in her transformative work, Atlas Shrugged. Note that Ayn Rand, when she was alive, viewed it as imperative to vote for Richard Nixon, in 1972, over George McGovern, because McGovern was virtually a socialist. The Ayn Rand Institute (and the camp followers who parrot everything they utter) claims to know that Ayn Rand, who died in 1982, would never vote for Donald Trump. How do they know? Seances, I guess. And just think: Kamala Harris makes George McGovern look like Ronald Reagan.
I find these conclusions inexcusably dishonest and worse than the worst of the leftists. The leftists are either ignorant, neurotic or intellectually lazy. Some are just plain evil, and want America destroyed. But these proliberty, purportedly rational people on the right know precisely what’s wrong and what the solutions are; yet rather than risk a mixture of truth and error in a Trump agenda, they opt for a murder suicide — all for the sake of the “long run.” It’s madness and idiocy on steroids, and I find it increasingly incomprehensible. The world is truly morally inverted and upside down, and this includes even those who sought to be on the side of truth, freedom and justice.
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