COMMON SENSE; Revisited
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Ayn Rand
July 14, 2009 at 06:34 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedAyn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (Signet, 1986) "Extremism," or The Art of Smearing.The goal of the ‘liberals’ — as it emerges from the record of the past decades — was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be named. Thus statism was to come, not by vote or by violence, but by slow rot — by a long process of evasion and epistemlogical corruption, leading to a fait accompli.
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