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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Actually that did happen in the US, Rose Wilder Lane (Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter) was an anti-tax protester with Nazi apologist views who initially claimed the whole war effort was an excuse to take your freedom
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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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She was extremely bitter that Rand kind of ran away with that title and got way more famous than she was despite her shamelessly piggybacking on her mother She always said it was because Rand was Jewish
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Wasn't there a third woman? Lane-Wilder, Rand, and some other woman who birthed the movement.
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Isabel Patterson, author "God of The Machine." The Canadian Rand.
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Yeah, Paterson was the intellectual mentor of both Rand and Lane and they both ripped her off pretty bad
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Why is this not the prestige drama show instead of the Phyllis Scnafly thing?
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Ayn Rand and Rose Lane both have libertarian fandoms that are intensely defensive of their reputations
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There was a so-so TV movie of "The Passion of Ayn Rand" a decade or so ago that Helen Mirren and Peter Fonda both picked up 'thanks for being alive still' Emmys for
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Oh wow, someone else remembers that this existed. I guess you happened to be watching HBO on that same Sunday afternoon in 1999.
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