Trump has entered the Querencia Phase of his presidency

I have zero sympathy. I'll save that for the young person brought up in a single parent household with little positive influence available to help form their life; where the streets gave them no real good choices but crime.

And the single-parent household is something that liberal policies have almost entirely created

cute race traitor ya got there!

"you get a safety net" they told the left "just as long as we make sure it doesn't work!"

Madbolters a veritable false equivalence machine.

Accordingly, in recent decades, a new line of argument has opened in the moral defense of greed, a change that was augured and embodied above all others by Ayn Rand. Rand understood that, when someone defended greed by an appeal to the common good, he was also conceding that greed could be checked by it. As the moral foundation for free markets, such an argument was entirely unacceptable to Rand, who took aim at it in her 1965 essay What is Capitalism?

“Implicitly, uncritically, and by default, political economy accepted as its axioms the fundamental tenets of collectivism,” she declared in a sweeping indictment of the Invisible Hand tradition. “The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve ‘the common good.’” That may be so, but it is “merely a secondary consequence.” Instead, capitalism is the only economic system in which “the exceptional men” are not “held down by the majority” and in which (as she said elsewhere) the “only good” that humans can do to one another and “the only statement of their proper relationship” are both acknowledged: “Hands off!”

A woman who titled a collection of essays The Virtue of Selfishness, Rand was given to brackish candor. Yet at a time when many people think that the common good is more often imperiled than empowered by unbridled greed, she provides an alternative defense of the acquisitive instinct by appealing to an ethics of gross achievement and a formulation of personal liberty that looks with suspicion and disdain on any talk of civic duty, moral obligation, or even prudential restraint. Her aim was simple: To relieve greed, once and for all, of any moral taint.

“I think greed is healthy,” an apparent acolyte told the graduating class at Berkeley’s business school in 1986. “You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.” The speaker was Ivan Boesky, who shortly thereafter would be fined $100 million, and later go to prison, for insider trading. His address was adapted by Oliver Stone as the basis for Gordon Gekko’s “greed is good” speech in Wall Street. An exhortation to shareholders of a sagging company, it reads like a corporate raider’s war cry, with Gekko the grinning avatar of Agency Theory.

I’ve always thought of MB1 as an Ayn Rand character similar to Howard Roark, although quite a bit longer on prose, & shorter on integrity.

I'm still so sickened by "cute race traitor" that I think I'll go throw up and leave you goofballs alone with yourselves.

And the single-parent household is something that liberal policies have almost entirely created

And the single-parent household is something that liberal policies have almost entirely created

Mad Bolter, It's always the same tune. First comes the smoke screen of the paragmatic arbitrator who commands a uniquely objective and authoritative perspective. This is usually followed by the lengthy didactic narative where you sneak in a drive-by inference like this.


There is no way in hell to quantify such a bullsh!t statement. You intentionally drop caustic notions like this as fact, to draw out your imaginary, intolerant, liberal cabal so you can cast yourself the fair and balanced martyr. This of course is followed by the, counting now...287th threat of departing the premises.

I actually laugh when I read and write half this crap so lighten up. You complete us.