Thursday, April 09, 2009

Rand had it right

A friend of mine sent me this quote from Ayn Rand, which explains what's wrong with politics in this country:

"The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by precedent, by implication, by erosion, by default, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other—until the day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology."

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I agree. Great quote.

Guelph First said...

Rand had so many things right.

matt finlayson said...

The environmental movement is a good example. In the 60's and 70's a small dedicated group of sloganeering misanthropes, is now a paranoid majority, in a constant state of fear.

Matt Finlayson, Toronto

Francisco said...

It certainly describes Canada's Conservatives to a 'T'.

Anonymous said...

Like the absurd "There's no safe level of second-hand smoke"? LOL!

Kevin Lafayette said...

I have always wondered; why it is so hard, to get people who identify themselves as conservative, and say they are for the free market, to disagree with socialists and nanny staters?

Anonymous said...

why it is so hard, to get people who identify themselves as conservative...
to disagree with socialists and nanny staters?
One reason is because most who make that claim are actually socialist, nanny staters themselves. So called free marketers in fact favour big government, high tax programs and policies that benefit themselves and/or their friends and supporters. They only want the hard discipline of the free market to apply to groups and programs that they don't like.