Ayn Rand

It's been a while but my head exploded last night so I thought I would write a post.

Apparently all the conservatives are reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, which is a fairy tale of mythical greediness proportions, in which all the wealthy captains of industry leave and create their own country, thus leaving all of us poor non working idiots to die.

What I love about an economic crisis, and there hasn't really been one in my lifetime that I was cognitively aware of, is that it strips the Republicans of all their moral pretensions. They don't chat about abortion and stem cell research as much, all they do is bitch that we're taxing the wealthy and redistributing money to the poor. I watched a line up of people who say, we should just take our wealth and go. Who do these Democrats think they are helping non-working people with our money? blah blah blah

To which, I say, go. Go to your fancy island where there will be no infrastructure (because us poor idiots do that for you), there will be no education (again, not so poor idiots provide that for you in lieu of being lawyers), there will be no service staff (because us poor idiots will be here). And then when you die, go straight to hell. Because Jesus Christ was pretty clear about this, how you treat the least of my people is how you will be treated by me. And when you head to judgment day and you wonder why the rapture didn't pick you up, God will say, yeah, I thought your opinions on the killing embryos and fetuses were all well and good, but when push came to shove and you were actually supposed to help in accordance with the Beatitudes, you bitched about it. Oh, and when push came to shove, it was clear to all that you only used the moral issues to get elected, they actually meant nothing to you, all you wanted was money. Oh and, if you were actually good enough to use charity to help in the first place, the government would never have gotten involved in social services to begin with, but your greed and selfishness came first.

The non-religious side of me says in a snarky way, um, so it's okay to spend billions of dollars on wealthy wall street people who deserve, apparently, huge sums of taxpayer dollars for bail outs. But it's not okay to cover unemployment? Seriously? How stupid do you think we are?

And the really snarky side of me says, yet again, do you really not know what happened in the French Revolution? Do you not get that there are a lot more of us poor idiots than you wealthy people and we killed you when you got all uppity about your money. The reason socialism exists - by the way - is to protect you from that happening.

So, again, I say, please keep complaining. Keep saying you owe us nothing. Your fellow countrymen and women. Your fellow human beings.

The revolution is a'coming.