Ayn Rand received federal arts subsidies for her play under FDR's New Deal Federal Theatre Project.

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Kevin M. Kruse Retweeted

Funniest thing I learned all day: Ayn Rand received federal arts subsidies for her play under FDR’s New Deal Federal Theatre Project. Absolutely fantastic.

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[jcgoldie]

1. This is great

[Bradshaw3]

2. The list of anti-government hypocrites is a long one

Ross Perot, the Kochs, farm subsidy corporations, military contractors, etc. - all spouting libertarian bullshit about the free hand of capitalism while they dip their hands into taxpayers' pockets.

I'm sure others can add to the list.

[DURHAM D]

3. Dont forget all the farmers that are growing crops,

raising cattle and their families on land that their grandfather or great grandfather got for free as a result of the Homestead Act. They really really hate socialism.

[eShirl]

4. so she was a SOSHIALIST??!!1

[ChubbyStar]

6. SLOSHIALIST she was a drunk

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5. Jesse Helms, too

[Caliman73]

7. Rand would have argued that it is not hypocrisy... she'd be wrong, but that's what she'd argue.

Her "Objectivism" was based on the idea that your own happiness is the most valuable goal. She would argue that taking whatever money that the government made available to you, makes sense even as she denounced the idea of the government distributing any of the resources of society.

Nice how the philosophy lets you have it both ways. Hate government as wrong, but take what it gives you. No wonder most serious people reject or ignore her philosophy.

[gratuitous]

8. I'm reading Thomas Patrick Doherty's "Show Trial"

Ayn Rand was the first woman called by HUAC for their Hollywood hearings in 1947. She wasn't quite the asshole she eventually became, but even at that early stage the puckering of the sphincter was evident.