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That's not meant to be an insult. That is simply what I would do.
What do you mean by a "shooting war"? Maybe we should get our meanings aligned before making accusations.
You say, "If you have ideas how to go about saving this country..." Are you admitting the country needs saving?
Are you familiar with Atlas Shrugged? Ayn Rand often made reference to those who would wait for a savior of some sort, but she didn't say it with compassion.
Did you read the first paragraph of "For The New Intellectual"? I posted it somewhere. I'll do it again:
""When a man, a business corporation or an entire society is approaching bankruptcy, there are two courses that those involved can follow: they can evade the reality of their situation, and act on a frantic, blind, range-of-the-moment expediency---not daring to look ahead, wishing no one would name the truth, yet desparately hoping that something will save them somehow---or they can identify the situation, check their premises, discover their hidden assets, and start rebuilding."
You do know that it wasn't long after that, about a century, I guess, that the Royal Society took as their motto: "On no one's authority but my own."
You remind me of a Calc professor who liked to get his students involved, so as he went through the derivation of an equation, he would stop part way through waiting for the class to supply the correct words, and once he got to "And two plus two is...?" and the whole class just shouted "Four"! And he goes "Good. Very good, class!"
If you are shrinkers only, I won't waste my time with you.
As for the movie trilogy, I say to you it has proven to be a weak imitation of the spirit of Ayn Rand. The philosophy of Ayn Rand is the rallying point for believers in the rights and responsibilities of the individual. Gulchers should have a prominent role in returning America to its "land of the free, and home of the brave.
The U.S. Constitution is the finest document of governance in the history of mankind, and even Rand has said so. Yet the Leftist/Liberals---aka Democrats---have attempted to destroy it, along with the memories of Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee, and even Columbus.
What have you done to protect liberty? Sit around and talk about it? Perhaps that is how we will end up another Fahrenheit 451.
If you know a faster way to delete my account please tell me.
It sometimes seems to me that the majority of Gulchers are more interested in intellectualizing the "philosophy of Ayn Rand", debating small points, or even large points, but not truly understanding that we are in a time where it is very important for the human species to make that decision, that choice, to move forward with a philosophy based on individual rights and responsibilities, or to move backwards towards primitivism (such as you see in certain equatorial regions of the world) with an idiotology based on communal-thinking and dependency on community guidance and obedience to authority.
In other words, the war between the Collective (Marxism and its derivatives) and the Individual has come to a head. It is here, it is now.