From Myrhaf:

Tonight we watched the beginning of the end of freedom in America, brought to us by well-meaning Republicans who have not the slightest idea that their perverted hierarchy of values will lead to destruction of individual rights. They were all good people we saw on TV tonight. Good, solid Americans. Their ignorance of economics and philosophy will be the end of the country they love.

I have many friends and family who correctly detect and loath the destructively nihilist essence of the left. What they fail to see are the thorns in their own bed of roses - which are just as deadly and cloaked in a much more palatable guise. The truth is they are still cheering for a losing team, and for exactly as Rand wrote in “Conservatism: An Obituary”:

Yet capitalism is what the “conservatives” dare not advocate or defend. They are paralyzed by the profound conflict between capitalism and the moral code which dominates our culture: the morality of altruism . . . Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. [emphasis added]

As long as sacrifice, in any sense of the word, is part of a political platform the result will be destruction of wealth, freedom and life.

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