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| General George Armstrong Custer An early Rand Paul |
The philosophical and religious base for republican tea party libertarians like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz is not democratic or federal or benign. The founding doyenne Ayn Rand, named it Objectivism. Objectivism is the belief that certain things, especially moral truths, exist independently of human knowledge or perception of them. The more populist name is libertarianism. It sounds like liberty, but it is not. It is thought of as freedom for the individual, but it is not. It is anarchic calling for a society out of control, or without rules. It is free will without limits. It is civil liberty to the detriment of society and the individual.
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| Rand Paul and Ted Cruz Objectivists in Power |
The libertarian creed demands a social and economic Darwinism that could only be described as sociopathic. Government controlled by business certainly does not create a free society, and such a government is by definition, fascism. In America we have seen the effects of giant companies that make profit the only goal. Historically, look up the Ludlow Colorado massacre in tents in the night of women and children protesting for better wages and working conditions. For modern times look up the murders of black people by drugstore cowboys like George Zimmerman and by overzealous cops in Missouri. Some of the poseur politicians like Rick Santorum and Ted Cruz and Rand Paul and Paul Ryan join with spin weenies like Karl Rove and Roger Ailes plus captains of industry like David and Charles Koch and Sheldon Adelson to declare Ayn Rand's work as the torah for their thousand year republic.
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| Ayn Rand |
Just like the Scientologist L. Ron Hubbard, all of Ayn Rand's novellas are Science Fiction salve for teen age angst. Atlas Shrugged is the republican Mein Kampf. And the Krupps? Well, now we have the Kochs and Sheldon Adelson. And for Goebbels, now there's Karl Rove and Roger Ailes. This has become another very, very bad tea party republican joke on America.
The vane General Custer of the Indian Wars serves as a good example of an early libertarian type. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are modern day General Custers. Soon the electorate will meet them at the ballot box to help them deal with their blind ambitions and their mental indigestion from eating too much of their cult's dogma.
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| General George Armstrong Custer An early Ted Cruz |
3 comments:
Terrific post Martin -- but I was struck by the irony of the ad for the NRA (National Rifle Asso.) immediately afterwards. Kind of a bit of a misplaced ad, is it not?
Hey Nick, Very sorry about the gun fools advert. Those are now blocked until the creeps game the system further...
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Hey NRA. Hey Wayne LaPierre. Hey Gun Fools all over our USA. Here's the body count for kids gunshot murdered in October 2014: Twenty-Five children ages zero to fifteen dead. White kids, brown kids, black kids, all dead. Stand their faces in your mind in your next miserable life.
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Ha! Cruz and Custer: kindred (evil) spirits for sure. Where is Sitting Bull when we need him?... or actually I think White Cow Bull is the most likely suspect for taking the General out (and not to the ball game). In any case... great post, as always.
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