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thenewgreen · 4636 days ago · link · · parent · post: Ryan Now Rejects Ayn Rand-Will The Real Paul Ryan Please Come Forward?
From the comments:
- “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’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.”
"Good on him", only if what he is now espousing is the truth and not just him realizing he may have a shot at the VP spot and needs to avow himself of saying that his greatest influence in life is an extremely vocal russian atheist. I'd have more respect if he had stuck to his guns and admitted the truth, Ayn Rand was extremely influential in shaping his political world view. I've watched the video where he adorns praise on her for shaping his decision to enter politics. What's changed? Opportunity, that's what, certainly not Rand and probably not him.