“An election campaign is not the time to teach people the fundamentals of political theory..."

“An election campaign is not the time to teach people the fundamentals of political theory, and a candidate is not a teacher. He can only try to cash in on such ideas as he believes the people to hold. He is not the cause of political trends, he is their product. Who, then, is the cause? The country’s intellectuals.”
          ~Ayn Rand, The Ayn Rand Column

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