All of these John Birch Republican's worldviews are based on a work of fiction, only they don't realize Ayn Rand was a fiction writer. When Senators, like Ron Johnson, start babbling on about Social Security they always display the wild eyed intensity of 70's era Trekies arguing whether the Klingon's or the Romulans were a greater threat to the Federation as they waited in line for an autograph from Walter Koenig, or to purchase a Tribble at a Star Trek Convention.
I never take these Bircher - Ayn Randians seriously on Economics or their Utopian Libertarianism and no sane person should, for, like most Right Wingers, they ignore what doesn't support their convictions, and reconfigure history to support their fatally flawed individualist view of America as something other than a story of humans building together and succeeding as part of a community. Most "go-it-alone-rugged-individuals" in the frontier days of the United States starved in the wilderness, broke limbs and whimpered alone under a tree until they expired, poisoned themselves by eating unfamiliar flora, became the food of wild animals, or ran afoul of a tribe of natives and were dispatched with haste. The individuals who succeeded in the United States did so as a member of a community.
I wouldn't take Senator Ron Johnson's opinion seriously on any issue affecting myself or people I cared about.
(Apologies to any offended 70's era Trekies ... I waited in line for Walter Koenig's autograph once too.)
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