Reasons for Republicans to distrust Ayn Rand

[ceptimus]

1. Russian
2. Pro choice
3. Atheist

I'm sure we can think of plenty more...

[Escapegoat]

Literate? She knew many polysyllabic words.

[ChuckF]

4. Vagina

[LadyShea]

5. Uppity while having vagina
6. Jew

[davidm]

7. Back in the 1920s, gushed worshipfully in her notebooks over a serial killer who brutally dismembered a 12-year-old girl, and modeled her first literary character after the killer, in a work that she never finished.

Wait ... come to think of it, today's Republicans might actually like this aspect of Rand, especially if it can be shown that the girl was non-Christian or on some form of public assistance.

Never mind.

[Janet]

Just out of curiosity, what serial killer? I'm not lazy. I just don't want that woman in my search history.

[Nullifidian]

Originally Posted by Janet

Just out of curiosity, what serial killer? I'm not lazy. I just don't want that woman in my search history.

William Edward Hickman.

Michael Prescott has an article online dealing with Rand's infatuation with Hickman.

[Qingdai]

So she might actually like Glen Beck, who reportedly raped and murdered a girl in 1990, or was it murdered then raped?


I can't keep it all straight.

Also when you look up Hickman, you get a picture of Ayn Rand.

[wildernesse]

Welfare queen

[livius drusus]

Originally Posted by Nullifidian

William Edward Hickman.

Michael Prescott has an article online dealing with Rand's infatuation with Hickman.

I feel like throwing up. What a fucking psychopath Rand was.

[chunksmediocrites]

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[BrotherMan]

[Sauron]

Jewish
Pro-choice
Female
Educated
Atheist
Smartass with a vagina
On welfare
Female
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Do I hear "black", "illegal alien" or "dyke"?
Going once? Going twice?

Come on folks; work with me, okay? I'm looking for a royal flush here. Baby needs a new pair of shoes.

[AynMisesLibertarian]

Reasons for civilized people to distrust Obama:

We demand therefore:

11. The abolition of incomes unearned by work.

The breaking of the slavery of interest

12. In view of the enormous sacrifices of life and property demanded of a
nation by any war, personal enrichment from war must be regarded as a crime
against the nation. We demand therefore the ruthless confiscation of all war
profits.
13. We demand the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed
into corporations (trusts).
14. We demand profit-sharing in large industrial enterprises.
15. We demand the extensive development of insurance for old age.
16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a healthy middle class, the
immediate communalizing of big department stores, and their lease at a cheap
rate to small traders, and that the utmost consideration shall be shown to all
small traders in the placing of State and municiple orders.
17. We demand a land reform suitable to our national requirements, the
passing of a law for the expropriation of land for communal purposes without
compensation; the abolition of ground rent, and the prohibition of all
speculation in land. *
18. We demand the ruthless prosecution of those whose activities are
injurious to the common interest. Common criminals, usurers, profiteers, etc.,
must be punished with death, whatever their creed or race.
19. We demand that Roman Law, which serves a materialistic world order, be
replaced by a German common law.
20. The State must consider a thorough reconstruction of our national system
of education (with the aim of opening up to every able and hard-working German
the possibility of higher education and of thus obtaining advancement). The
curricula of all educational establishments must be brought into line with the
requirements of practical life. The aim of the school must be to give the pupil,
beginning with the first sign of intelligence, a grasp of the nation of the
State (through the study of civic affairs). We demand the education of gifted
children of poor parents, whatever their class or occupation, at the expense of
the State.
21. The State must ensure that the nation's health standards are raised by
protecting mothers and infants, by prohibiting child labor, by promoting
physical strength through legislation providing for compulsory gymnastics and
sports, and by the extensive support of clubs engaged in the physical training
of youth.
22. We demand the abolition of the mercenary army and the foundation of a
people's army.
23. We demand legal warfare on deliberate political mendacity and its
dissemination in the press. To facilitate the creation of a German national
press we demand:

OBAMA?DRUNKARD KARL MARX?

NO,GERMAN SOCIALIST WORKER'S PARTY .

[ChuckF]

You owe €200.

[chunksmediocrites]

Originally Posted by AynMisesLibertarian

Reasons for civilized people to distrust Obama:

OBAMA?DRUNKARD KARL MARX?

NO,GERMAN SOCIALIST WORKER'S PARTY .

The whole repetition of German nationalism was kind of a give-away.

Thank you for delineating the quote from your own words- however it is important to source your quotes- a link is helpful. From here, for example, when you quote the Programme of the NSDAP, 24 February 1920, written by Adolph Hitler and Anton Drexler.

So if we're quoting party platforms, let's try this one:

We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needs—expansion of social security—broadened coverage in unemployment insurance —improved housing—and better health protection for all our people. We are determined that our government remain warmly responsive to the urgent social and economic problems of our people.

To these beliefs we commit ourselves as we present this record and declare our goals for the future.

Nearly four years ago when the people of this Nation entrusted their Government to President Eisenhower and the Republican Party, we were locked in a costly and stalemated war. Now we have an honorable peace, which has stopped the bitter toll in casualties and resources, ended depressing wartime restraints, curbed the runaway inflation and unleashed the boundless energy of our people to forge forward on the road to progress.

In four years we have achieved the highest economic level with the most widely shared benefits that the world has ever seen. We of the Republican Party have fostered this prosperity and are dedicated to its expansion and to the preservation of the climate in which it has thrived.

Behold the Republican Party Platform of 1956.

Under the Republican Administration, as our country has prospered, so have its people. This is as it should be, for as President Eisenhower said: "Labor is the United States. The men and women, who with their minds, their hearts and hands, create the wealth that is shared in this country—they are America."

The Eisenhower Administration has brought to our people the highest employment, the highest wages and the highest standard of living ever enjoyed by any nation. Today there are nearly 67 million men and women at work in the United States, 4 million more than in 1952. Wages have increased substantially over the past 3 1/2 years; but, more important, the American wage earner today can buy more than ever before for himself and his family because his pay check has not been eaten away by rising taxes and soaring prices.

The record of performance of the Republican Administration on behalf of our working men and women goes still further. The Federal minimum wage has been raised for more than 2 million workers. Social Security has been extended to an additional 10 million workers and the benefits raised for 6 1/2 million. The protection of unemployment insurance has been brought to 4 million additional workers. There have been increased workmen's compensation benefits for longshoremen and harbor workers, increased retirement benefits for railroad employees, and wage increases and improved welfare and pension plans for federal employees.

In addition, the Eisenhower Administration has enforced more vigorously and effectively than ever before, the laws which protect the working standards of our people.

Workers have benefited by the progress which has been made in carrying out the programs and principles set forth in the 1952 Republican platform. All workers have gained and unions have grown in strength and responsibility, and have increased their membership by 2 millions.

Furthermore, the process of free collective bargaining has been strengthened by the insistence of this Administration that labor and management settle their differences at the bargaining table without the intervention of the Government. This policy has brought to our country an unprecedented period of labor-management peace and understanding.

We applaud the effective, unhindered, collective bargaining which brought an early end to the 1956 steel strike, in contrast to the six months' upheaval, Presidential seizure of the steel industry and ultimate Supreme Court intervention under the last Democrat Administration.

The Eisenhower Administration will continue to fight for dynamic and progressive programs which, among other things, will:

Stimulate improved job safety of our workers, through assistance to the States, employees and employers;

Continue and further perfect its programs of assistance to the millions of workers with special employment problems, such as older workers, handicapped workers, members of minority groups, and migratory workers;

Strengthen and improve the Federal-State Employment Service and improve the effectiveness of the unemployment insurance system;

Protect by law, the assets of employee welfare and benefit plans so that workers who are the beneficiaries can be assured of their rightful benefits;

Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of Sex;

Clarify and strengthen the eight-hour laws for the benefit of workers who are subject to federal wage standards on Federal and Federally-assisted construction, and maintain and continue the vigorous administration of the Federal prevailing minimum wage law for public supply contracts;

Extend the protection of the Federal minimum wage laws to as many more workers as is possible and practicable;

Continue to fight for the elimination of discrimination in employment because of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry or sex;

Provide assistance to improve the economic conditions of areas faced with persistent and substantial unemployment;

Revise and improve the Taft-Hartley Act so as to protect more effectively the rights of labor unions, management, the individual worker, and the public. The protection of the right of workers to organize into unions and to bargain collectively is the firm and permanent policy of the Eisenhower Administration. In 1954, 1955 and again in 1956, President Eisenhower recommended constructive amendments to this Act. The Democrats in Congress have consistently blocked these needed changes by parliamentary maneuvers. The Republican Party pledges itself to overhaul and improve the Taft-Hartley Act along the lines of these recommendations.

What scary socialists those Republicans were! How far to the Left of the modern Democratic Party.

[LadyShea]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

I feel like throwing up. What a fucking psychopath Rand was.

Wow. Defining sociopathy and dissociative disorder ("I am sorry she was killed")as a "wonderful, free, light consciousness" is a new one on me.

[Kashmir]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

I feel like throwing up. What a fucking psychopath Rand was.

She makes a pretty good villain.

[Escapegoat]

Originally Posted by AynMisesLibertarian

Reasons for civilized people to distrust Obama:

OBAMA?DRUNKARD KARL MARX?

NO,GERMAN SOCIALIST WORKER'S PARTY .

How many of these demands became policy once they were in power?

ETA: and how is any of it relevant to this discussion?

[Escapegoat]

Didn't Rand urge republicans not to nominate Ronald Reagan?