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Did I Channel Ayn Rand Too Much?

Did I Channel Ayn Rand Too Much?

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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…

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