But the "right people" aren't (and won't be) running for office. Instead, we will continue to have "the average American legislator [who] is not only an ass," as Mencken wrote, "but also an oblique, sinister, depraved and knavish fellow."
The battle between Rand and Branden, moreover, is really no contest. Rand created something, whereas Branden has lived his entire life parasitically off Rand, first as a worshipful disciple and cult organizer, then as a neo-Randian shrink who set up shop in California with the solid initial base of the RandCult's Nathaniel Branden Institute mailing list.
Mass unemployment proves in fact wholly to be the result of government preventing private enterprise from working freely and providing itself with a money that would secure stability.
The government closes doors. The market, incredibly and fortuitously, keeps opening them.
Capitalism delivers the goods, and it does so in abundance. Interventionist alternatives do not.
Rothbard and a handful of Misesian economists were virtually alone in maintaining that Hoover's interventionist policies were mainly responsible for what we now know as the "Great Depression."
From Chapter I of The Bastiat Collection: Volume I. Pages 1-48 in the text. Read by Josiah Schmidt.
The degree to which these union members qualify as economists is the degree to which they must knowingly intend the consequences of their actions and therefore be culpable for them.
"Alain de Botton is not an economist by training, but he clearly understands the division of labor (he even uses the term!) and is a keen observer of human action and the human condition."
But the mere desire to be free has never saved any people who did not know and establish the things on which freedom depends — and these are the things of religion.
