I’m not sure that Sarah Palin will have an opportunity to run for president if the Democrats’ power grab is successful.
Consider that Atlas Shrugged was written more than 50 years ago.
The reason [why Atlas Shrugged matters] becomes immediately apparent upon reading. It might have been written yesterday. Rand’s description of a socialist state taken over by “looters,” people who cannot create or produce but who seize power under the rubric of “fairness” is so spot-on accurate of today’s administration it’s scary. At over one thousand pages long, Atlas Shrugged is not a weekend read and made me question whether my fun-loving liberal friends actually read it, or read the Cliff’s Notes version which is also selling at unprecedented levels.
In a fictional United States, three giants of industry struggle with a government of venal bureaucrats, “looters,” Rand calls them, that closely resemble our present administration. The three industrialists are Dagny Taggart, Vice President in Charge of Operations for mighty Taggart Transcontinental, steelmaker Henry Rearden whose Rearden Miracle Metal puts steel to shame, and the Chilean play boy Francisco D’Anconia who inherited the world’s richest copper mines and proceeds to turn them into dust, shocking all who know him and invested in his supposedly rock-solid enterprise.
The reasons D’Anconia liquidates his empire in secret become increasing clear as the new administration strips away individual rights.
I remember reading this book in high school or shortly after and wondering how this country could ever descend into such a decayed socialist morass as Rand describes. Today it’s pretty obvious – we voted it in.
Why Atlas Shrugged Matters (HT: Mike Baron at Big Hollywood)
