Sometimes the libs will coopt the left position and retroactively pretend it was the lib position the entire time (most dramatic example that comes to mind: the Civil Rights Movement) and that's the best you can hope for.
"I should not have written this story." -Ayn Rand
spoiler
It's the opening line of a short story she wrote in her early 20s, well before she developed her, ahem, hit formula.
[Stares at inert pile of baseboard trim sitting in middle of garage, 8ft from the nearest plumbing, on a dry day]
[It begins leaking]
What in the goddamn
So does the Talmud contain discourse on every possible ethical conundrum?
What does it say about fudging the building code a little when you're renovating a basement?
And maybe a Roma state somewhere east-southeast of there.
In fairness, most of the avant-garde jazz groups that came out of Ann Arbor, MI at the end of the 80s were Goopenists. Two of the best known ones have names that are anagrams of "Spontaneous Councilism" (Opossum's Canticle Union and Numinous Calico Stepson.) In fact I'm pretty sure Jean-Baptiste Frazzwell played at Goopen's fourth wedding, although I have no idea who the backing musicians would have been, since this would have been before the second Frazztones lineup came together but after the first lineup died of hantavirus.
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[Quietly whistles Electric Six guitar riff]