{"id":176245,"date":"2020-07-30T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/30\/my-bizarre-take-on-the-veepstakes\/"},"modified":"2020-07-30T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T00:16:00","slug":"my-bizarre-take-on-the-veepstakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/30\/my-bizarre-take-on-the-veepstakes\/","title":{"rendered":"My Bizarre Take on the Veepstakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

While she is a long shot to be Joe Biden’s choice for running mate, I consider Stacy Abrams to be the worst of all the candiates whose names have been mooted thus far.<\/p>\n

I find Stacy Abrams is completely unacceptable because of her choices in literature.<\/p>\n

If you think that I am joking, I am NOT joking<\/a>, as Abrams is a big fan of Ayn Rand’s allegorical novel Atlas Shrugged<\/i>, which I consider to be a major red flag:<\/p>\n

One other unexpected detail: In an interview with Womenetics, a B2B services firm that specializes in helping women professionals, Ms. Abrams named three favorite books: The Institutionis<\/i>t, Ender\u2019s Game<\/i> and\u2026 Atlas Shrugged<\/i><\/span><\/b>, not exactly a book at the top of most Democrat reading lists. Womenetics called her a \u201cserial entrepreneur\u201d and clearly she has a passion for business. As to how does that translate to the tough business of navigating the politics of Georgia as a Democrat legislator, she seems to have found quick success.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See also here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When Abrams was little, visiting her grandmother, with her some 16 first cousins running around, she was the one in the corner, holed up with a book. She loved Helen Keller\u2019s The Story of My Life<\/i>, The Count of Monte Cristo<\/i>, Silas Marner<\/i>, Little Women<\/i>, Jane Eyre<\/i>, Ender\u2019s Game<\/i>, Toni Morrison\u2019s Beloved<\/i>, Atlas Shrugged<\/span><\/b><\/i> (\u201cBut not for the Paul Ryan reasons.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009There was something about how [Ayn Rand] highlighted the capacity of a person to be more than.\u201d) She loved mythology. \u201cGreek, Norse, Roman, Cherokee. If I could reach it, I would read it,\u201d Abrams says.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Being a fan of Atlas Shrugged is on a par with taking Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal<\/i><\/a> as a serious policy proposal.<\/p>\n

It is a sign that you are a psychopath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While she is a long shot to be Joe Biden’s choice for running mate, I consider Stacy Abrams to be the worst of all the candiates whose names have been mooted thus far. I find Stacy Abrams is completely unacceptable because of her choices in literature. If you think that I am joking, I am …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[555,374,405],"class_list":["post-176245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-literature","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}