>>>>>>>>>Unlike John Taylor Gatto, who helped transform kids' lives through a commitment to volunteer work, Ayn Rand reacts against communism in the same way you do, by preaching and teaching that selfishness is good.<<<<

No, I don't. WHERE have I "preached" that selfishness is good? If you read Rand she is talking about pursuing ones own self interests and talents and that there is nothing wrong with this. YOU consider this an evil thing (but will not produce any kind of authority or standard by which you make this judgment) and that all must live for the good of others and society....especially since it costs YOU nothing to advocate that others be looted by the state to create your experimental utopias that ALWAYS end badly and create dysfunction that you then scapegoat others for.

>>>>>Of course, you promote this view under the banner of "live and let live," but all you do is try to tear down any kind of constructive work.<<<<

The "constructive work" of scapegoating demographics whose values you despise?? You are SO "creative", Babu! So "constructive"!!!

>>>>> It lets you off the hook for doing anything as an active citizen in this society,<<<<<

Let's me "off the hook"??? LOL! I haven't noticed that I've been let off any hook. I am still working 9 months of the year to pay for your government, managed to educate my own as best I could, and I bet I do more for others in one week than you do in a year, actually physically do it myself. Your insistence on "being an active citizen" means assimilate into the borg, participate in the sham of "self government" by choosing between the vetted "leaders" we are allowed to vote for in a quasi-religious ritual farce. No thanks. YOU are welcome to it, however. I may be enslaved for 9 months of the year but I'll be darned if I'll help choose my masters.

>>>> while providing you with entertainment by trashing anyone else's idea of constructive work.<<<<

Your "constructive work" has ruined generations of American minds, enslaved the population to a central state that will very probably start killing them off through economic privation and military attack. No, I want no part of your "constructive work" of change agentry and scapegoating those whose religious views you despise.

>>>> You even said that you didn't wish to be seen as protesting or actively fighting against the tyranny you decry for fear that you would be targeted as an activist.<<<<

Heck yes! Been there done that! And it's not just me, it is my FAMILY who has been targeted. My CHILDREN! How SELFISH of me! And you have sacrificed your kids to your Noble causes, haven't you?? But wait, Generous and all loving Babu has no kids to worry about, no family to worry about. And since your commie favs are running the show it is harrdly likely YOU are going to suffer any consequences scapegoating law abiding traditional families.