Experiment: Ayn Rand, yay or nay?
Yay
2.2%
Nay
97.8%
Poll ended at .

What's sort of interesting about this is that with all the talk of 'decentralization' and the affinity that right-libertarians have for it, Mastodon seems to be attracting a crowd that's fundamentally left-leaning and pro-democracy, with some left-libertarian anti-state sentiment too.

Right now the poll on Twitter is a bit more 'yay' than on here, but that's a function of my followers, too. Will be interested to see where it ends up.

For my part, I think Rand is ridiculous.

@davetroy I don’t think the concept of Left and Right leaning Libertarians is faithful to the premise of Libertarian politics, as the foundation principles of the party is fiscal conservatism and social liberalism defined in the old style liberalism of freedom of choice, association, speech, etc. and not today’s democratic socialism.

@PaulH There is a very specific network of right libertarians I’m referring to, and it’s widely used in political science history. If I’m referring to other notions of libertarian thought I’ll note the exception. This is the network I’m referring to.

https://washingtonspectator.org/paranoia-on-parade/

Paranoia on Parade | Washington Spectator

How reactionary grievances have helped bring America’s democracy to the brink of collapse

Washington Spectator