Name the most dangerous woman in the United States

Quite a few of those quotes, BBB, are not only quite clever but right on target. "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." I couldn't've said it better myself.

Again, I disagree with the totality of her philosophy but that doesn't blind me to her quite genuine talent and wit. And I really don't believe her influence on 2oth century politics and thought was all that great. Dangerous? Pfahh!!

If I'm limited to one, than I have to agree with roger: Nancy Pelosi, simply because of the extent of our power and her idiocy, not malicious intent.

You do realize don't you than Rand is dead?

The evil that (wo)men do lives on after them - or something like that.

Ms. Rand also wrote about the evil of socialism and communism. She was trying to warn the world. If you think she was that dangerous then she was doing the right thing.

after the second paragraph, it's a direct c/p from wikipedia from the objectivism section. Lots of references provided there to the individual details.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan

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She wrote a not-bad teen romance, but I think her books are painful for adults to try to read.

Nancy 'the crack whore' Pelosi

There is a funny irony about Randian objectivism and contemporary conservatives.

As an atheist, I've been told by many christian conservatives about the evil extrapolation of my worldview on politics regarding things like evolution, etc. I'm frequently told that I cannot be moral.

Odd then that the exact type of atheist they condemn me for is the atheist I am not--but Ayn Rand definitely was. Isn't this double talk?

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That is so true!!! You are so smart and they are so stupid.

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Christianism and intellegence are not synonymous.

This is exactly right. I feel a twinge of a headache, just remembering how awful and imprecise was her use of English.

Your immorality has nothing to do with you atheisim Deist.

How many fundamentalist Christian conservatives do you know who are big fans of Rand?

Let me see if I understand you: Your atheism is not a product of reason, but one of faith and mysticism?

Rand was an atheist who based that worldview on her concept of Objectivism; a concept which can roughly be reduced to rationalism.

Since, by your own claim, you are not the atheist she was, one can only assume you have come to your worldview through something like a metaphysical vision.

Very interesting.

I would love to learn about the moment you fell off your horse on the way to Damascus and were blinded by The Void.

Rand, like most of us was a flawed human being.

Just like Barack Obama...oh wait, maybe that was a poor choice for comparison.

She was also a flawed novelist and philosopher, but then who have not been?

Susan Sontag and John Dewey?

What is more disgraceful than ironic is the fact that Liberals who would, otherwise by default, celebrate the accomplishments of any intellectual and artistic woman during the first half of the 20th century have put Rand through a critical filter that is able to separate microscopic particles.

And now we have one of their kind declaring her "the most dangerous woman in the United States," and her confreres piling on and even suggesting that it's hard to imagine anyone more dangerous.

Ayn Rand, the most dangerous woman in the United States?

If this is true, it speaks very poorly of the capacity for danger presented by American women since the formation of our nation.

Perfect Liberal nonsense.

If Rand was, as every critic in the NY Time Book Review insists, such a literary and philosophical hack, how can she be so dangerous?

This is the classic paradox of Liberal disdain:

All of their opponents are morons, but at the same time diabolical agents of manipulation.

It used to be funny, but now it is simply tiring.

That's very noble of you to admit. My moral value, be it positive or negative by my own or other's measure is not bonded to the fact that gods are excluded from the list of things I believe in.


Rand has been very fashionable in Conservative politics since the Tea Party AstroTurf was rolled out. Or have you forgot the chants for the Tea Party to "go Galt?" Perhaps, you don't realize that Ron Paul named his son Rand after Ayn Rand. What about the Heritage Foundation holding Altas Shrugged Part 1 (no sequels to be made) watch parties?

It seems that Conservatives are keen to hold Rand up high, and simply ignore her atheism. Menahwhile, it is her philosophical beliefs that they condemn in me--or rather project upon me.


You're not this dumb. My atheism is a product of reason. Both Rand and I do not believe in gods. We differ in what the implication of that conclusion is on human behavior and on what is most beneficial for individuals and to society.


"Objectivism" is a name. It is a philosophy that no so unlike many claims to be based on rationality. It has no special claim to it.


Very dumb, Finn. How you lead yourself to such a conclusion is beyond me.


More like a pale blue dot, champ.

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Stephanie Meyer. Unless we all work hard to stop her, she might write another book.

Acvtually Barbara Boxer is the most dangerous woman in America.