By Larry Klayman

WND

November 20, 2020

 

In her famous book "Atlas Shrugged," written in 1957, during a time in the country's history when it was thought that communism was on the rise — today it truly is — Ayn Rand created a character named John Galt, who, along with other powerful people, checked out of society when a corrupt government, in exercising dictatorial powers, dumbed down our body politic by falsely making all people "equal," that is, reduced to mindless moronic zombies. The goal of John Galt and his followers was to deprive a corrupt government of their expertise, in effect allowing the United States to be taken down to ground zero, in order that someday it could resurface to recreate the vision of our Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776 — a free, capitalist nation where individual achievement thrived.