Here, Samuel L. Jackson provides a fresh insight into today’s Republican party.  It’s the polar opposite of the idea we all learned as children: live and let live.

People who aren’t straight white Christian males are the enemy.

Today’s Republicans: Another Perspective

At 2GreenEnergy, we talk a great deal about the incredible transition in the politics of the Republican party of the United States.

When I was growing up in the 1960s, Republicans were actually fairly sane people.  Nobody was trying to suppress voting, rejecting science, or declaring the Democrats were communists.

The meme here provides a good example of what I meme.

The Republicans Squirt to the Right

From a reader:  Okay… confession: I only physically read about a quarter of it.

I’ll make an even greater confession: I read “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” back-to-back when I was a teenager, and they meant a great deal to me at the time.

It was a couple of decades later that I realized that “the virtue of selfishness,” as Rand described her philosophy, is a horrible basis on which to build a society. Fortunately, there isn’t a nation on Earth where everything is privatized: roads, tunnels, bridges, airports, law enforcement, criminal justice, disaster relief, libraries, national defense, bank deposit insurance, emergency healthcare, food safety, etc.

Moreover, hoping that rich and selfish people will restrain themselves from ruining the environment is a joke.

Ayn Rand and the Virtue of Selfishness