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If Friedman is no longer in the right-wing loop, I think we now have to rename the wing itself. We need a new political geometry to encompass the world as we know it today – a paradigm shift as radical as Copernicus’ heliocentricity. Something involving strange attractors and strange detractors, strange loops and loop-de-loops, schizophrenia, allophrenia, and lackophrenia.
Here is a comment to Krugman’s post on monetarism 5-14-11 by John Faughnan St Paul, MN May 14th, 201110:39 am:

“How is the GOP’s aversion to data related to their issues with CO2 driven climate change? Are the roots of the republican war on science bound to a quasi-religious devotion to an abstract deity of the perfect market? The invisible hand become Invisible Hand?
There is something religious about the modern GOP’s attitude to science and reason, and it’s not conventional religion.
Marketarianism”?

To which I reply:
John Faughnan of St. Paul (is that Rand, Ron, Ryan or of Tarsus?) – you have beautifully and succinctly described what is going on in the nation – and Ayn Rand is It’s Prophet. Remember, “data” (or facts, as we laymen like to say) must always fit into Revelation if they are to converge with Truth. This is a religious axiom. If Alan Greenspan, one of Friedman’s doting acolytes (and a Randian cultist) can call for a return to higher taxation pronto, then we might have an inkling of what the old man might be thrashing out with the lovely Ms. R up in econoheaven. [Lovely - appropriate adjective? It has the stem "love" in it and connotes "beauty" ... but I digress] Religiosity pervades the nation with its eternal verities and what better savior to impose on us from the plutocratic masters of the world than Saint Ayn? Our Lady of the Market. The very sound of it brings me deep peace and comfort. Rand’s in her Heaven and all’s Right with the world.