My relationship with ayn rand is frustrating. As young man, I thought her ideas were provocative, but something feels wrong with Atlas Shrugged. I later come

My relationship with ayn rand is frustrating. As young man, I thought her ideas were provocative, but something feels wrong with Atlas Shrugged. I later come to realize that rand is a bad novelist: She is a little too self indulgent with her character’s speeches. She has contempt for the antagonists in her books. She hates them. She cannot relate to them, so they are not relatable. Her antagonists seem to be over the top in their abandonment of logic and common sense. Her worldview is flawed. No one would behave this way. I come to feel like she has some good ideas, but her cynicism about moochers is not supported by the real world. Then 2019 happened and I realize she is right and I can’t decide if I should be more annoyed with her, Americans or myself. SJWs are as bad as the moochers she presents. American politicians and almost everyone in the dc community are craven, awful, dangerous and petty. Instead of recognizing that everything we are experiencing is a symptom of the ethical decline of the country, we are tallying the score of republicans and democrats. We are homogenized and too stupid to save ourselves. Our finishing move is electing a man presenting symptoms of dementia. He seems determined to accidentally start combat between nuclear armed nations through unforced insults, if “nance” thinks it’s ok to do so. I was wrong. Ayn is right. These people will present self destruction as the moral choice. They will rage when you point out why it won’t work. The worst of them default to violence and suppression. It does seem to accelerate. You don’t have to like her to respect her.