Bernie Sanders is More American Than Ayn Rand

[eridani]

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/11/02/bernie-sanders-more-american-ayn-rand

We Americans have been deceived by the notion that individual desires preempt the needs of society; by the Ayn-Rand/Reagan/Thatcher aversion to government regulation; by the distorted image of 'freedom' as winner-take-all capitalism; by the assurance that the benefits of greed will spread downwards to everyone.

Our current capitalist-driven inequalities will only be rectified when people realize that a strong community makes successful individuals, not the other way around.

[EdwardBernays]

1. It's worse than you think

[Waitsman]

2. Randian narcissist

I read Atlas Shrugged at 16 and thought it quite provocative. By twenty, I saw the many flaws in her logic. She was an extreme narcissist justifying her own lack of empathy for others. Those that follow her are cut from the same cloth, and should never hold office of any kind.

[MisterP]

7. "I read Atlas Shrugged at 16": that's the only age for it, alas

note how its very length serves to isolate the reader--1,200 pages total, a 50-page speech, glitz and glamour, Art Deco orgies aboard dirigibles, the sensuality of steel rail (so she's pro-HSR!), rape fantasies to whips and rock-drills, even the snazzy smoking scenes are just ripped off from her boss DeMille

there's not one real person in it, not Jesus, not Marx, not Marjoe Gortner, not Blavatsky, not Adam Smith, not FDR, not Kerensky--just a few references to Plato and Aristotle

it's a cult session between two covers

[Nitram]

3. That's a pretty low bar.

Ayn Rand was a narcissistic sociopath.

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. AND THE SPEAKER OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is a FOLLOWER!!

He acts just like her too - Preaches her hate.

How's that for scary?!

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[Nitram]

9. Just sayin', you do a disservice to Sanders to compare his patriotism...

...to that of Ayn Rand. This is about the Speaker, not Sanders.

[SoapBox]

6. Fancy words and phrases to cover up

Greed.

She should have been shipped back to Rusia...or wherever it was.