Well…I wonder what the reason was that ole Mitt picked the idiot Ryan to be his VP? It appears that he did it to solidify the base behind him since those on the right never really warmed to Mitt…but I just can’t see where Ryan will appeal to anyone but the base…remember this is the guy who holds Ayn Rand in such high regard and espouses that her ideas of radical individualism are what he believes in…that there is no role for government to play and that people should live or die on their own efforts with no safety net to ensure that the elderly and children don’t starve if they have the bad luck to not be connected to the old boys network. Remember this, too, for a guy that hates government so much, he has spent his entire adult life in government…getting the pay raises and gold plated healthcare that he feels that no one else deserves…but that is the pattern of the repubs…play to the crazy right by hating government and then using government to enrich themselves at the cost to the rest of the country. One last thing, I’ve read stories that ole Ryan is an “intellectual” and one of the big thinkers on the right….but, to me, it doesn’t take a big thinker to cut, cut, cut, when it’s not coming out of your pocket…geez…
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Making the connection…
Well…just read an interesting article in the Guardian UK about the right’s fascination with Ayn Rand and her work “Atlas Shrugged” and it hit me that this fascination is one of the causes of the of the concerted attacks on women that we have seen over the past few months. In that putrid piece of trash (I really hate to call any work by any writer trash, since I understand that writing is hard work) the put upon millionaires and billionaires revolt against “government regulation” and the takers in society that are everyone but them…but what struck me the most are the scenes of rape in the book where the woman being raped comes to understand and like the attack since it is done by one of the rich and powerful that “deserve” to do whatever they want since they are rich and powerful. This nonsense is the root of the contempt that the right feels for everyone that is not them; who is not rich and connected, who must have something wrong with them because they aren’t. Never mind that most of those in the repub race for president either were born wealthy or fed at the public trough through lobbying to become wealthy; the fantasy in their heads is that they “earned” what they have….delusions that grow stronger with every passing day…geez….