Let us turn our attention to Ayn Rand, whose Objectivism theory has been generally rejected by almost everyone except Libertarian survivalists and Alan Greenspan. Her laissez-faire, every-man-for-himself philosophy states that "weak" people are not deserving of love, and that it is unethical to help anyone except yourself. Everything she stands for runs counter to the Judeo-Christian ideals on which, like it or not, our country was founded. She despised the "welfare state" and believed in a separation between economics and government. I'm ashamed to say that I still hold her in some esteem, since she was really smart and had her philosophy mapped out systematically — she wasn't like David Duke, for example, who created a bunch of lofty syntax to support his... More >>>