People who criticize Ayn Rand’s literary characters as unrealistic ignore the many real-life people who would fit comfortably in her novels “Atlas Shrugged” or “The Fountainhead,” such as British climate change scold George Monbiot. Here’s Monbiot in his own words regarding the recent gathering of Al Gore’s First Church of the Warming Globe in Copenhagen: “This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here… humankind decides what it is and what it will become… The summit’s premise is that the age of heroism is over. We have entered the age of accommodation… There is no space for heroism here; all passion and power breaks against the needs of others. This is how it should be…” There you have it: yet another socialist who attempts to bring down the true heroes of mankind in the name of the so-called “needs” of those who refuse to take personal responsibility for themselves. As Ayn Rand — who championed what she termed “the concept of man as a heroic being” — might have said herself, no person’s alleged “need” grants them the right to enslave others. Leftists like Monbiot who seek to initiate the use of force against their moral superiors — the individuals who use their unalienable right to liberty to rationally pursue their own happiness, in part through peaceful and productive achievement — should be deeply ashamed of themselves and their inherent immorality.

– Mark Kalinowski
North New Jersey Tea Party Group
Liberty, Free Markets, and Individual Rights

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