Well, wouldn't a lot of these kids have been simply Young Republicans a few years back?
How would differ from the kinds of kids who would have joined the Party of the Right at Yale back when Doug joined?
Jim F.
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Bryan Atinsky <bryan at alt-info.org> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] My Ayn Randian, libertarian loving relatives....argh... !!! Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:09:53 -0500
True, but I still think it is a relevant question because when I was 20 something, I didn't know one "Objectivist" personally. Definitely were the tendencies towards Anarchists and TAZ hippie types and perhaps the Ditto Heads or two, but no Randians. Now it seems to me that there is an upsurge in libertarians and Randy sorts, and I even had a friend (my age...40) recently come visit and he was reading The Fountainhead...(though he is a business owner and fancies himself an entrepreneur, so he has those tendencies).
So, while there is a tendency among 20 somethings to latch on to a rebellious ideology, the question still remains... Why this one? Why now? (that is if my personal experience actually indicates a real rise in popularity of this specific tendency).
Bryan
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