While most of the candidate speakers at the event were mixed or rather bad, we did connect with at least one potentially interesting candidate: John Dennis, who is running in the Republican Primary as a potential challenger for Nancy Pelosi, spoke quite emphatically on the importance of defending individual rights. In conversations after his talk, a few Golden Gate Objectivists found him to be surprisingly principled: he advocates phasing out entitlements, a free-market direction for health care reform, and an ultimate abolishment of the Fed. He also is well-read in Ayn Rand - admiring her not just for her politics of capitalism, but stating that he found her impressive for 'her fundamental identification that in the end, politics comes down to a person's views in epistemology and metaphysics.' Definitely a politician worth investigating: if someone with these views can have a good run against Nancy Pelosi, maybe we can have some real change soon!
Thank you also to Sally Zelikovski, who put this very professionally organized event together!
1 comment:
I wish we had stayed longer now!
I thought there was too much going on in too loud of an environment for presenting ideas to people. Initially, I was disappointed, as presenting Objectivist ideas was my original intent in participating.
What I found valuable at the event was the presentations by candidates. It was surprisingly useful to hear candidate present their platforms in person (or by proxy) rather than trying to glean information from media sources, web sites, and news releases.
John Dennis is one of the candidates I've been very interested in and have considered actively supporting. I'm glad you had an opportunity to speak with him, and wish I had (still) been there!
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