Yep, that was the one. It was a fascinating experience in its own way, because it was probably the only novel I’ve ever read where the “protagonists” were considerably less relatable or decent human beings than the “antagonists,” and the central villain pretty much stated outright that he wanted to crush anything smacking of genius and originality just on evil principle.
And then of course there was the part where the hero Howard Roarke breaks into the heroine’s room and rapes her. (But she was a cocktease who secretly wanted it, so that’s OK.)
So basically the book was like looking into the mind of a sociopath.
In case you didn’t know, Howard is a gloss on Frank Lloyd Wright. His architectural nemesis is a thinly disguised Stanford White. I forget who the rest of the characters are based on, but I think if you look into the “girl in the velvet swing” thing you’ll recognize some more.
Because they were loosely based on real people, the characters in Fountainhead are actually less cardboard stereotypes than those in her other books. I realize that may be hard to believe, but just trust me on this, @anon15383236 and I have suffered that pain so you don’t have to.
That seems to be what the pollsters are saying too, that Johnson’s getting more votes from otherwise democrat leaning voters than the other way around.
Stein literally cannot win. So even if you support her. She can’t win why would you vote for her? Do you really consider Hillary and Trump to be equivalent?
Or to put it another way, what does a protest vote get you other than president Trump?
If you’d hung around the Somalia article in Wikipedia about 10 or 11 years ago, you’d have heard differently. Why, they have an unregulated wireless industry! So there! (If you really have time to kill you could go look for the old SomaliAnarchy web page via archive.org. It’s no longer active so I guess Galt’s Gulch didn’t quite pan out…)
I’ve heard that one’s actually quite good. I wouldn’t know, first-hand: it was gifted to me, and it’s been sitting in the stack of unread books for almost exactly 20 years. (Granted, some books have been in that stack longer than that…)
That’s for sure. If the corporation up river from you poisoning the water? Well the government will just get out of their way and let them do what they want. You’ll have to sue them individually. Only under what law will you sue them? I have no idea because getting rid of pesky environmental laws will be one of Johnson’s primary duties as a Libertarian.
Actually “Taste the Freedom™” would be a pretty good slogan for a tobacco company ad since they don’t have to worry about all those nanny-state regulators telling them who they can and can’t market to.
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If you want to change the political outlook of an ethical person, you have to show that their candidate is better than who they are voting for[/quote]
Hah hah hah haha! Oh man, maybe you noticed that it’s nigh impossible with the people currently running for president.
Clinton’s an amoral, hawkish, sexual-assault enabling, career politician who couldn’t tell the truth even if you paid her ridiculous speaking fees to try and attempt. She’s got no record to run on, because her record is one awful bribe-laden fiasco after another.
But no apocalyptic hyperbole is too great for her cheerleaders who want you to vote because she’s a woman/not Trump/cares about something/etc.
Johnson could bite his tongue and promise to do nothing but repeal awful policy & laws for a full 4 years and he’d be a better candidate than either of these two corrupt clowns.
You think she can’t win. I think your candidate won’t win.
But if we only vote for the winner, then there’s no point in voting at all. And somebody has to start, or we will never have any successful alternative candidates, we’ll still be stuck with the Whig and Royalist parties forever.
I do not consider the Democrat and Republican candidates equivalent. If I was in a swing state, I would be faced with a serious moral dilemma, and there would be no course of action I could take that would be unequivocally morally, ethically, and pragmatically correct. (Being something of a self righteous contrarian bastard, I’d probably go with my moral compass, but I actually would feel pretty bad about it.)
I am not making a protest vote, I am voting for the person who I sincerely feel would be the best possible president out of the people on my ballot. I am aware that you do not agree, but she’s the only one who agrees with me about the things that truly need to be prioritized by a US president, since Sanders is out.
@laynesk, I understand where you’re coming from, but Ms. Clinton’s supporters can legitimately claim that she has tremendously more political experience than any of her competition, which would be a plus in office. Or Republican supporters could point out to Libertarians that their candidate has managed to maintain his personal wealth without paying taxes (which would be used to slaughter brown people overseas) or even repaying the amoral, economy-destroying banksters who lent him the capital for his business ventures. You see what I mean? All the candidates have flaws that all us third party voters already know about, so anyone who wants us to switch our votes need to pitch their candidate’s characteristics as strengths instead of boring us with fearmongering.
If you’re voting on purity of principle instead of supporting a candidate who has a plausible chance of winning then why limit yourself to the people on the ballot? Just write in whoever you want, it will have the same ultimate effect as voting for Jill Stein.
All this third party hate is because of Nader and you know it. You also know it’s not his fault that Gore lost, just like it’s not Gary Johnson’s fault or Jill Stein’s fault that people don’t want to vote for Hillary Clinton. They don’t want to vote for her because she hasn’t earned their vote. Personally, I think she could care less about their vote, but technically I don’t know that for a fact.
I think this is maybe a long con. Rob is just waiting for someone to say" I’ll vote for Gary Johnson when you open the safe. Har, har, har."
And once Rob gets enough people signed up on that proposition, promising to vote Johnson, he’ll reveal he actually opened the safe months ago, before he even made the first post.
