Telegram Archive - week 14, 2025
- 2 minutes read - 224 wordsA very important quote from Ayn Rand, which should end up in the website logs. Putting it here:
Ayn Rand on electoral college:
Citizens as such do not represent a political unit. To have a country, two elements are needed: men and geography. . . . A country is not a collection of men floating in space. The gypsies who travel all over the world could not be considered a nation; they are individuals, but they have no geographical location. They are nomads. Therefore, they are not yet an element of a political structure. The proposal to limit all political voting districts to “one man, one vote,” as it is called, is in effect an attempt to destroy all political structure and to reduce the country to a nomadic population, ruled directly by the central government. It is one of the most dangerous proposals in this country. It is a direct road to a “democracy,” in the original and worse sense of the word—i.e., unlimited majority rule. It would leave the country in the power, and at the whim, of any majority of the moment.
If your purpose is to protect individual rights, you need a series of semi-sovereign sates and localities, each government by its local population and united into a wider entity, which is the United States.