Jason, you wrote:
Much like Ayn Rand waged an all out war against the left and its intellectuals I think that a similar sustained war ought to be waged against the religious conservatives. We certainly shouldn't try to make common cause with them. There is very little common cause remaining. All attempts should be made to eliminate them (and their religion) from the main stream of politics so that a more rational alternative to the left can take their place.
I just wanted to mention that Ayn Rand argued steadfastly also against political conservatism in America. We find that opposition, for example, in her fine essay "Censorship: Local and Express."
In 1976 she publicly declared her support for the Democratic challenger Patrick Moynihan against the Republican incumbent Senator James Buckley. She was opposed to Buckley in large part because he did not support the woman's right to procure an abortion, which had lately become a right recognized in the law the land by Roe v. Wade. That issue was a very important ideological issue of individual rights to Rand.
In all the years since then, I always voted Pro-Choice, which almost always meant voting against a Republican. Unfortunately, with the reelection of President Bush and the Republican Congress, they have finally gotten enough of their people on the Supreme Court to do their dastardly deed. Rand and I finally lost that long struggle for the Court. For a while.
These social conservatives are wrong in their thinking of a conceptus, a blastomere, or a fetus not yet capable of survival independently of its natural mother, as an individual. These are only precursors of individual humans. The ideological and political fight for the right of the woman, a genuine individual, to procure an abortion of these precursors from her body will continue.
Stephen
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