Ayn Rand: Why is she so popular?

[alice wellintown]

no author, unless we count the roomate of P at college, has produced
more negative posts than Rand, her at P-L.

 Now, it may be argued that P gives us a parody of Rand, in V., and
so, it makes sense that we diss the bitch, but other than the
political parading of liberal intellectualism, why do Plisters keep
banging on the Rand drum?

 sure, she is mentioned in the news, as Ryan, Ben B, others have
claimed to have read and been influenced by her stupid politics
disguised as fiction..,but we are not news honds here.

Orwell, his politics more acceptable to P and to P listers, though, as
P points out in his Intro to 1984, Orwell has been used and abused by
the Left and the Right, is more a source of ideas and fictional
elements than Rand, but Orwell is not much discussed here.