{"id":188018,"date":"2010-12-28T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/28\/all-you-need-to-understand-about-republicans\/"},"modified":"2010-12-28T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T01:08:00","slug":"all-you-need-to-understand-about-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/28\/all-you-need-to-understand-about-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"All You Need to Understand About Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It should be noted that Paul Ryan, the soon to be head of the House Budget Committee, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/jonathan-chait\/80552\/paul-ryan-and-ayn-rand\">requiring his staff to read Ayn Rand&#8217;s <i>Atlas Shrugged<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ve not read this book, I <b>did<\/b> her (mercifully shorter) treatise on her philosophy <i>The Virtue of Selfishness<\/i> in high school, and Kung Fu monkey has the <a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/ephemera-2009-7.html\">final word on Rand and her Randroid followers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old&#8217;s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, and he will be drafting our budgets. &lt;<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Facepalm<\/span>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/28\/rule-by-the-ridiculous\/\">Paul Krugman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It should be noted that Paul Ryan, the soon to be head of the House Budget Committee, is requiring his staff to read Ayn Rand&#8217;s Atlas Shrugged. While I&#8217;ve not read this book, I did her (mercifully shorter) treatise on her philosophy The Virtue of Selfishness in high school, and Kung Fu monkey has the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1175,1003,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-literature","category-philosophy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188018"}],"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=188018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}