Did I Channel Ayn Rand Too Much?

I'd like your thoughts on a mini-rant…

This morning a commenter (and supporting subscriber—thank you, Nancy!) posed the following question:

“Are the American people even capable of self government now?”

My response turned into a bit of a rant—one which, even as I was writing, I realized sounded a bit uncompassionate (not towards the commenter, but towards the subject of her inquiry).

And yet I…