Paul Ryan - Ayn Rand's Relevance (Must see & Pass it on! Plus a link to LA Times 8/12 article)

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Run time: 02:23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XYw9RtDbU8   Posted on YouTube: April 26, 2012 By YouTube Member: jecarter4 Views on YouTube: 5100   Posted on DU: August 12, 2012 By DU Member: Divine Discontent Views on DU: 492

 
This was him touting her so strongly in 2009, before he became the boy wonder of the GOP 2012.

Wow. just wow! this guy espouses her beliefs like she's his Great Teacher! Ayn Rand said the pursuit of self individualism in attaining all you can without being stopped by gov't and being forced to give to the poor people/sick that she refers to as "takers" and "parasites", really sums up this guy's world view! Her views are offensive to me as a liberal Christian, and it's disgusting that Mr Ryan is so flattering of her views in the above video!

The LA Times has an article on "Paul Ryan loved Ayn Rand, before he said he didn't", where they point out his claim that it is just an "urban legend" about his being so vocal about believing in her views.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-vp-paul-ryan-ayn-rand-20120811,0,1175099.story

(more at link)

(now he claims) “I reject her philosophy,” Ryan told Robert Costa of the National Review. “It’s an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview.” He added that he had merely “enjoyed a couple of her novels,” which also included another bestseller, “The Fountainhead.”

But Ryan made no bones about his philosophical influences just a few years ago. He told the Weekly Standard in 2003 that he gave his staffers copies of “Atlas Shrugged” as Christmas presents. Speaking to a group of Rand acolytes in 2005, Ryan said, “The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. And the fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.”

Even three years ago, Tim Mak of Politico noted, Ryan channeled Rand. “What’s unique about what’s happening today in government, in the world, in America, is that it’s as if we’re living in an Ayn Rand novel right now,” Ryan said. “I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault.”

“It is not enough to say that President Obama’s taxes are too big or the healthcare plan doesn’t work for this or that policy reason,” the lawmaker said. “It is the morality of what is occurring right now, and how it offends the morality of individuals working toward their own free will to produce, to achieve, to succeed, that is under attack, and it is that what I think Ayn Rand would be commenting on.”




Get it here:
http://www.zazzle.com/rmoney_ryan_a_plan_called_austerity_sticker-217210752180754331?rf=238107662556833486

[Divine Discontent]

1. FYI: Ayn Rand applied for Medicare & Social Security when lung cancer got her

Here's the DU video thread link to "The Truth about GOP hero Ayn Rand", from April 2011.


It is a short video where she assails Christianity, social programs, gov't controls on capitalism, and the great social programs (that she later sought to collect help from).

The video presciently features a 30-something Paul Ryan at the beginning and the end of the video!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x574778


PASS IT ON!



Get it here:
http://www.zazzle.com/bushs_comeback_team_2012_bumper_sticker-128086037468948857?rf=238107662556833486

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3. Ryan has repudiated her sometime last spring claiming he's not a Randite

Maybe he found out she applied for those things and she became dead to him

[Divine Discontent]

5. "she became dead to him" bwahahaha! wouldn't surprise me. And he can try and backtrack on his

effusive boasting of her political views of coldness and selfishness, but I ain't buying it!

[Enthusiast]

2. The morality of capitalism is under assault?

Well if it isn't, it certainly to fuck should be.

[Divine Discontent]

4. succinctly great point & post. keep 'em up!

"morality of capitalism" - ain't that sickening?

he's warped, and gonna keep running away from his previous gushing over Ayn Rand's beliefs.

It could be a great Dem. campaign youtube video if they made a precise video simply pointing out what she was against, and his defense of her, and how it influences his nasty budget cuts.



Get it here:
http://www.zazzle.com/paul_ryan_ayn_rand_budget_bumper_sticker-128567915003360711?rf=238107662556833486

[Enthusiast]

6. This is another fine article by the Reichster.

http://www.nationofchange.org/ryan-choice-1344777565#comment-209496

[Divine Discontent]

7. excellent, thanks n/t