Ayn Rand blamed for current state of America

[Pat Mustard]

Like many writers and thinkers who developed sound critiques of an ideology, her solution erred in the opposing mindset.  Just because socialism has it's faults doesn't mean Marx's critique of capitalism isn't useful and on point.  Both gave us good tools, so there's no need to denounce either.  Nor a need to fully immerse.  

Unless you want to create the best progressive rock album ever.  Then, it's okay.

She didn't develop sound critiques of systems she wasn't against. She built rotten strawmen and then singularly failed to tear them down. Her whole corpus was the wailing screed of a spoilt child convinced she knew everything while revealing that she knew fuck all. Her whole problem sith communism was that Lenin didn't see her "obvious greatness" not the evils within the system and her "solution" would have lasted roughly a half a day before turning into cannabalistic anarchy.

She was worthless, her books were worthless (in fact her best book Anthem was an undisguised theft of the much better We by Zelmatyn), and her worldview an affront to allmoral people.