Ayn Rand is being failed by the American People. What would John Galt do?
John Hinderaker of Powerline thinks it is all those welfare queens in their Cadillacs:
[T]his election should be a cakewalk for the Republicans. Why isn't it? I am afraid the answer may be that the country is closer to the point of no return than most of us believed. With over 100 million Americans receiving federal welfare benefits, millions more going on Social Security disability, and many millions on top of that living on entitlement programs–not to mention enormous numbers of public employees–we may have gotten to the point where the government economy is more important, in the short term, than the real economy. My father, the least cynical of men, used to quote a political philosopher to the effect that democracy will work until people figure out they can vote themselves money. I fear that time may have come.Andy McCarthy at National Review argues that conservatism and Randism have been failed:
The people coming of age in our country today have been reared very differently from those who were just beginning to take the wheel in the early 1980s. They have marinated in an unapologetically progressive system that prizes group discipline and narrative over free will and critical thought.Richard Fernandez argues at the Belmont Club that the American People are "smart women" making "foolish choices":
A radio talk show host characterized President Obama's DNC convention address as the "boyfriend speech". She compared his pleading with the screed those deadbeat suitors give they realize they are about to dumped and who promise to bring back the magic. [...] Any reasonable girl would show him the door. But as readers probably know and much to the surprise of John Hinderaker of Powerline, the "boyfriend" speech very often works. There's a better than average chance in real life that the girl will not only forget about the IOUs, broken promises and BS — she'll come busting out the gate after him. [...]Unfortunately [...] this sort of charm — the kind that keeps ladies coming back to their boyfriends after they've been bamboozled, betrayed and generally given short shrift, is either something you are born with or not. President Obama, whatever his faults, has got lots of this charm. As Charles Krauthammer put it anyone who thinks everyone eventually sees through this smarminess should remember that the public's idea of a caring person is still Bill Clinton. Well, there's always 2016.
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