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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It could have a masturbation scene with Rand's character that would become more famous than End of Evangelion and also significantly less uncomfortable to discuss, and yet also not
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"I... am not fucked up. I am the highest of the high. It is first principles."
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Nathaniel Branden wrote this incredibly cringey account of the first time he had sex with Ayn Rand that comes off like this
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"the first time I had sex with Ayn Rand" sounds like the kind of phrase that spawns a curse
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It ended up dissolving his marriage, Rand's marriage and eventually the whole Objectivist organization
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