Libertarianism is officially dead

[TreasonousBastard]

16. Libertarianism may be dead, but it had little to do with Rand..

She hated libertarians and considered them nothing more than anarchists.

It's easy to confuse her presumably enlightened self-interest with simple license, but she seems to have thought that humans were smart enough to expand their individual self-interest to something more social. Kind of like a "group" self interest. Altruists were idiotic, she said, but she did work out an Objectivist ethical system. Of course, her Objectivist groupies seemed quite robotic-- kind of like the present day fanatics we all know and love.

Alas, her ethical system was as confused as her epistemology-- it seemed to be going around in circles.

Anyway, although she would have hated to hear it said that she was a lot like Marx, she did seem to share his understanding of many problems, but, also like him, her solutions were just nuts.

And never forget that she ended up going on Medicare and Social Security during her last days.