Imagine if in London during the Blitz there'd been a whole bunch of people going "I'LL TURN ON MY LIGHTS IF I FEEL LIKE IT" Imagine if once the war started in the US a bunch of Americans were all "WHO ARE YOU TO TELL ME HOW MUCH FLOUR AND SUGAR I CAN BUY"
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All I remember about her is she tried to follow in her mom's footsteps and write books about her childhood, but probably didn't sanitize as much as her mom did because the one thing I remember from them was her bragging about stealing a Native girl's dog and leaving her sobbing
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She was Ayn Rand's rival for the title of "Founding Mother of American Libertarianism"
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@cmclymer did a whole amazing thread as she read through Prairie Fires. It's an expose/biography of The Wilder-Lane family and how they professed self-sufficiency and spawned the Libertarian movement out of one side of their mouths and demanded government hand-outs on the other. - Show replies
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i would be shocked if she were the only one
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I was about to say I'm almost certain someone in America did this. Probably a lot of them, like 5-30%.
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I was about to say- that was a very middle American conservative thing to do in 1940.
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Well, of course, there's always *somebody*...
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