At least Ayn Rand cut to the chase by making her philosophy boil down to “fuck you, I’m awesome”* *disclaimer: Ayn Rand was not in fact awesome.

"The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself." - Noam Chomsky

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I think what stoked the fires of Trumpism is that it removes any requirement of morality from the equation.

I think they've given up the search, tbf.

Kind of like prosperity gospel.

Some definite truth there.

Sounds like Ayn Rand's "Objectivism" : "I'm stupid, ignorant, selfish, pretentious... and FU !"

This quote kinda feels selfish. Though I will say that I have known selfish conservatives. I don't want to generalize. Because both parties have them.

Oh, if only they were so innocent as to be guilty of merely that!