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Ayn Rand Message to GOP Candidates
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phobe on Apr 23, 2008
A very old video interview that was posted to the net 9 months ago.
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- In recent years, the conservatives have gradually come to a dim realization
- of the weakness in their position,
- of the philisophical flaws that had to be corrected,
- but the means by which they are attempting to correct it
- are worse than the original weakness.
- There are three inter-related arguments used by today's
- consevatives to justify capitalism, which can be best designated
- as the argument from faith, the argument from tradition,
- the argument from depravity. Since they needed a moral base many
- conservatives decided to choose religion as their moral justification.
- They are claiming that freedom, capitalism, and America,
- are based on faith and god.
- Politically such a claim contradicts the fundamental principles
- of the United States.
- In America religion is a private matter,
- and must not be brought into political issues.
- Intellectually to rest ones case on faith is to concede
- that reason is on the side of one's enemies,
- to concede that there are no rational arguments
- to support the ideas which created this country.
- No rational justification for freedom, justice, property, individual rights,
- and they can be accepted only on faith.
- Consider the implications of that attempt.
- While the communists are claiming
- that they are the champions of reason and science,
- the conservatives concede it and retreat into the realm
- of mysticism, into another world, surrendering this world to communism.
- It is the kind of victories that the communist irrational ideology
- could never have won on it's own merits.
- Now consider a second argument.
- The attempt to justify capitalism on the ground of tradition.
- Some people declare that to be a conservative,
- means to uphold the status quo, the given, the established,
- regardless of what it might be, regardless of whether it is good or bad,
- right or wrong, defensible or indefensible.
- They declare that we must defend the American political system,
- not because it is right, but because our ancestors choose it.
- Not because it is good, but because it is old.
- America was created by men who broke with all political traditions,
- and originated a system unprecedented in history.
- Relying on nothing but the unaided power of their own intellect.
- But those Neo-Conservatives are now trying to tell us that America,
- was the product of faith in revealed truth,
- and of uncritical respect for the traditions of the past.
- It is certainly irrational to use "the new" as a standard of value.
- To believe that an idea or a policy is good merely because it is new.
- But it is much more preposteriously irrational to use
- the old as a standard of value.
- To claim that an idea or a policy is good merely because it is ancient.
- The liberals are constantly asserting that they present the future,
- that they are new, progressive, forward looking...etc.
- And they denouce the conservatives as old fashioned
- representatives of a dead past.
- The conservatives concede it, and thus help the liberals to propagate
- one of today's most grotesque contradictions.
- Collectivism and dictatorship; the frozen status society,
- is offered to us in the name of progress,
- while capitalism the only free, dynamic, creative society ever devised,
- is defended in the name of pacifity, and stagnation.
- The plea to preserve tradition as such
- appeals to the worst elements in men, and rejects the best.
- It appeals to fear, cowardice, conformity, self-doubt,
- and rejects creativness, originality, independence, self-reliance.
- It is an outrageous plea to address to human beings anywhere,
- but the more outrageous here in America.
- The country based on the principle that man must stand on his own feet,
- live by his own judgement, and move constantly foward
- as a productive, creative, innovator.


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