Is everybody on the right, including George Will, infected by Rand-ism? Words from her lexicon like collectivism appear in his pontifications. He places Elizabeth Warren at the forefront of the liberal assault on individualism. I was mystified at his paranoia until I realized what was up. Like Mitt Romney, George F. must think corporations are people, too, and it's these corporate individuals under liberal assault about whom he is alarmed.
I read "The Fountainhead" in high school. It influenced my decision to become an architect so I could achieve that rugged individualism to which we all aspire. But I never could plow through "Atlas Shrugged." When Rand assigned those values embodied in architect Howard Roark to entire corporations, she stopped making sense. So did Will.
I have some news for Will and Warren. A lot of this country was built before we had income taxes. It was not taxpayers or CEOs who did that work. It was men and women whose necks were red, black, brown, yellow and sometimes white, if they worked in places where the sun couldn't beat on them. I wonder whether those who are so confident of what we need have ever produced anything but words.
