AA...You must be talking about the Teabaggers who think the world hasn't changed for the last 50 years since this book came out. And whose favorite tv show is still Ozzie & Harriet
Rand was very black and white. In her world you were either a moocher or an achiever. Nothing else. The ironic thing is many young people who were still in school read that book and came away thinking they knew the all of the answers of what was wrong with today's world, when in reality by definition they were what Rand considered "the moochers."Not all of them, I'm sure, but a lot of them. But also anybody who sees everything simply in black and white, which is pretty much how Ayn Rand's objectivism breaks things down. That's one reason why it appeals so much to many people who come across "Atlas Shrugged" at a young age, and why it seems so important. It's a lot easier to imagine things existing between clearly drawn lines before a person has done much living in the real world. An awful lot of Rand adherants grow out of by the time they hit their 30s.