Why do so many people hate, LOATHE, Ayn Rand?

She was a literary dominatrix whose methods laid the groundwork for current right-wing rhetoric, which constantly swerves between contradictory positions until the reader is trained to unquestioningly accept whatever they're told, with the promise that they'll be as smart and powerful as Ayn/Rush/Donald/Tucker is if they just memorize the lines they're fed and recite them aggressively at every opportunity.

Her writings, particularly "The Fountainhead" (her most readable novel) are catnip to a certain type of authoritarian/submissive personality. My favorite example of Ayn at work in that one is when she describes the protagonist's work in terms that anyone with an elementary knowledge of architecture will identify as Bauhaus, but insists at every turn that it's NOT that filthy foreign Bauhaus crap but a totally original, totally American style!

Her points (such as they are) are catnip to a certain kind of irritating, megalomaniacal nerd-boy who fails at everything yet knows that it's society that is broken, not him (think Ben Shapiro). Her style is droning and dull. She's a terrible stylist and writes like the uppers are wearing off.

She's not a novelist, she's a browbeater.

I really like her

She was a pretentious, full-of-shit gasbag.

r2 I want to steal this!

[quote]She's a terrible stylist and writes like the uppers are wearing off.

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."- John Rogers

Typical conservative hypocrite: "In 1976, she retired from writing her newsletter and, after her initial objections, allowed a social worker employed by her attorney to enroll her in Social Security and Medicare."