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Start by teaching the people to be good
Dear Editor,
I live in the USA, and enjoy keeping abreast of the politics of my country. I found the article by Peeping Tom in your September 5th edition to be very interesting. I had some knowledge of Paul Ryan, because of the debates over the debit this nation is accumulating. His fiscal arguments are forceful and well thought out. In all the years that he has been a political figure on the national level, I have never heard anyone make a connection to objectivism and Ayn Rand.
So I did some research, and found that in the early years of his national attention, some have tried to make that connection. It is a false connection.
Even Yaron Brook, president of the Ayn Rand Institute states that Ryan is not a Rand disciple. Paul Ryan is a devote Catholic, and objectivism does not support the idea of a personal God.
The connection that Peeping Tom makes to objectivism is maybe because of his misunderstanding of capitalism. His description of capitalism maybe is accurate for some who say they are capitalist, but it is not a good description of what our founding fathers knew as capitalism.
Our founding fathers thought that capitalism was best for the collective good. Capitalism would release the energies of the individual to benefit all. Under capitalism the individual would be free of government interference to do the things that the collective needs. No political party or committee would stop or interfere with the individual doing those things that the collective needs.
This idea only works when the people of a nation are taught that they are not an end unto themselves. Thomas Jefferson taught that capitalism would only work if the people felt that they were accountable to a higher power.
This higher power had to be above government. It had to be the power by which government gets its power. It has to be a power greater than the collective. In the USA we are seeing the results of a nation that is teaching its citizens that they are the highest power. We have a breakdown in morality, and in government. In order for governments to be good, the people who elect those governments must be good. I have learned that it is more important to teach people to be good, and then everything in the collective will be good.
Robert L Froman
USA
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