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MrBrooks2

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Reply to erpowers (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 15, 2012, 10:30 PM

Aug 2012

Some of the characters in Galt's Gulch were public officials. A judge comes to mind, because at the end of the book he wrote a new constitution for the new society. Ayn Rand wouldn't have been critical of honest politicians that worked to protect political and economic freedoms.

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