The problem boils down to the fact that Rand was not particularly libertarian on most anything - not only did she endorse the Vietnam War and believe that President Nixon did
not go far enough in prosecuting it, but she was also quite socially conservative on issues like gay rights, not being well-predisposed at all towards the burgeoning gay liberation movement. Simply being a cheerleader for capitalism does not make one a libertarian (and, of course, Rand
hated libertarians):
Now, of course, her "Libertarian - Right" supporters will forgive these things in a way they wouldn't for a "Libertarian - Left" partisan, because American 'libertarianism', so-called, is basically Pavlovian in its responses towards banal corporatist rhetoric.
If you want a real individualist - a radical individualist who went so much further than Ayn Rand that he left her in the dust a century before she wrote - you need look no further than the gentleman in my avatar:
But this is too much, too much! American 'libertarians' want to be "rugged individualists", not
genuine individuals. They are content to march in lockstep with their Mises and their Hayek in their pockets, like all the rest of the 'individualists'.
