I sent a clip of the Rush Limbaugh Show (in which he quotes Ayn Rand with the quote above) to an Objectivist I know and love. Not that Rush agrees with Rand on everything, of course. He knows Rand is an atheist but accepts her premise in the fight to gain back the soul of the individual. I talked to one Objectivist who said this about the ongoing political struggle:
The only salvation for the Republican Party is to align with the conservative democrats - which means that to defeat the far left wing (those who would make us slaves) - Republicans are going to have to concentrate on the message that individualism and liberty are the causes we have to fight for. This means that the far right social issues (abortion, gay rights, etc) will have to be jettisoned in the interest of liberty. Just as the founding fathers accepted slavery temporarily to form the United States. Doesn't mean you give up your belief in them - but you don't make them part of your political platform.
There is a sense of needing to cooperate, even though there is disagreement between the person of faith and the atheist, both of whose economic and political convictions are influenced by a deep-seated morality.
As always, I'm interested in your thoughts.
I sent a clip of the Rush Limbaugh Show (in which he quotes Ayn Rand with the quote above) to an Objectivist I know and love. Not that Rush agrees with Rand on everything, of course. He knows Rand is an atheist but accepts her premise in the fight to gain back the soul of the individual. I talked to one Objectivist who said this about the ongoing political struggle: 
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Conservative democrats? That would be the retired Zell Miller and the just released from prison, always entertaining Jim Traficant...though I think he is now an independent. I do agree that the GOP needs to turn their attention to civil liberty and government tyranny and put the red meat social issues on the back burner.
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