Atlas Barfed

In Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” America’s billionaires go on strike. Their creative minds are the motor that runs the world. But the evil, incompetent socialist government taxes them and tells them what to do with their stuff. So, they all join forces with John Galt in his super-secret redoubt in Colorado. The corrupt capitalists everybody blames for everything are finally gone! Yay! In less than a year, the shit hits the fan. The pinko second-raters and takers can’t America work. (Seems they need those corrupt capitalists after all.)  So trains derail, electricity fails, it’s anarchy, total collapse, the end of civilization! Almost. The billionaires wait it out. One character sits in his cabin and rewrites the United States constitution …

“He had marked and crossed out the contradictions in its statements that had once been the cause of its destruction. He was now adding a new clause to its pages: ‘Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...’”

Then, when everything goes to hell, the billionaires at last emerge.

“They could not see the world beyond the mountains, there was only a void of darkness and rock, but the darkness was hiding the ruins of a continent: the roofless homes, the rusting tractors, the lightless streets, the abandoned rail. But far in the distance, on the edge of the earth, a small flame was waving in the wind, the defiantly stubborn flame of Wyatt's Torch, twisting, being torn and regaining its hold, not to be uprooted or extinguished. It seemed to be calling and waiting for the words John Galt was now to pronounce.

"The road is cleared," said Galt. "We are going back to the world."

He raised his hand and over the desolate earth he traced in space the sign of the dollar.”

I think “Atlas Shrugged” is the game plan for America’s oligarchs. To speed up the destruction, they’ve installed idiots in charge of the United States government. Thanks to this hand-picked wrecking crew, a Greater Depression will likely result — and possibly WWIII. After that, the oligarchs will kick off any remaining taxes or legal restraints.

The bullies don’t want any coaches on the playing field.

Interesting times, huh?