Ayn Rand Was Once “A Thing”

Growing up in the 60s and early 70s, I was one of millions of young people who read Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and found them both extremely well-written and philosophically compelling.

But then, as we aged, virtually every one of us had the same realization: we all live in a society, and, while we have individual rights, we have certain duties and responsibilities to one another.

There is no country on Earth, thank God, that doesn’t have some form of socialism in it. Yes, some have more than others, but the real differences between, for instance, the United States and the other developed nations of our world is government-funded healthcare and education.

Only the truly insane want to see the privatization of infrastructure, national defense, law enforcement, environmental control, airport security, disaster response, and dozens of other things we take for granted.