Ayn Rand Paul Ryan

Many conservative leaders in congress and the media idolize Ayn Rand.  Are many Republican voters aware of her most controversial views:  Her hatred of religion; her hatred of altruism; her contempt for the poor and the weak; her strong opposition to programs such as Social Security and Medicare?  If not, they should become more aware.  That is the purpose of this blog.


Rand Paul on Ayn Rand and his name:

What does Paul Ryan think of Ayn Rand? Well, Ryan requires his staffers to read "Atlas Shrugged".  Jonathan Chait of The New Republic has written extensively about Ryan's fondness for Rand.  In TNR here he states:

Ryan would retain some bare-bones subsidies for the poorest, but the overwhelming thrust in every way is to liberate the lucky and successful to enjoy their good fortune without burdening them with any responsibility for the welfare of their fellow citizens. This is the core of Ryan's moral philosophy:

"The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand," Ryan said at a D.C. gathering four years ago honoring the author of "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead." ...

At the Rand celebration he spoke at in 2005, Ryan invoked the central theme of Rand's writings when he told his audience that, "Almost every fight we are involved in here on Capitol Hill ... is a fight that usually comes down to one conflict--individualism versus collectivism."

The core of the Randian worldview, as absorbed by the modern GOP, is a belief that the natural market distribution of income is inherently moral, and the central struggle of politics is to free the successful from having the fruits of their superiority redistributed by looters and moochers.

Here is Ryan being confronted by a Christian journalist about his admiration for Ayn Rand.

Watch this revealing interview of Ayn Rand by Mike Wallace.