About "Atlas Shragged", in situ: "Creative persons, including industrialists, scientists, engineers,artists, etc. begin to vanish without a trace.  As we learn later, they
have been persuaded by "John Galt" to abandon -- even sabotage -- their
industries, because their talent and labor is no longer rewarded.  An
unholy alliance between politicians, bureaucrats, labor unions, and
inefficient private companies seeks to destroy successful enterprises.

THUS, THE PROCESS THAT IS DISTRACTING IS NOT LIMITED TO: " THEY DID IT ,
ON THE OTHER SIDE"; IT SHOWS TWO SIDES GOING TOO FAR ON THE FRINGES CAN MUTUALLY (BIPARTISANSHIP-LY AND BICAMERAL-LY, ALIKE) DESTROY OR SIGNIFICANTLY WEAKEN AMERICA.THE IMPRESSION THAT THEY SELL OUT THERE THAT THEY ARE FINE BECAUSE THEY 100% AGREE ON THE ISSUE REGARDLESS WHAT AMERICAN PEOPLE SEND THEM  THERE FOR ( REPRESENT PEOPLE  THUS DISAGREE TO THE DEGREE).
HITLERS 'AGREED' LIKE THAT. THEY ARE MOST DAMN FOUNDED THIS DAYS
WHEN THEY ARE TO ANSWER TO REPRESENTING FUNCTION AND MOREOVER DO NOT EXCLUDE GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS, LIKE LET SAY NANCY PELOSI NEVER HEARD OF THIS ONE; BUT OTHERS NOT MUCH BETTER.

AMERICAN PEOPLE USE TO THINK IN TERMS OF LEGISLATIVE
AND PRESIDENTIAL MANDATE, WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE PEOPLE
AND THAT THEY ARE TO STICK WITH IT. NOW, THERE IS A FOG
 OVER THE MINDS OF AMERICANS TO THE POINT THAT I DO NOT BELIEVE IN IT ( THAT IS STILL A FIRST STEP , I RISK)

WHAT THEY ARE THERE FOR, ROMNEY AND OTHERS?

Though the novel has long been popular among "conservatives," most of
them treat it like the bible, picking which parts to obey (absolute
freedom for corporations) and which to ignore (individual liberty, such as the freedom to choose to smoke or sell marijuana).  As an anti-totalitarian and avowed atheist, Rand would never endorse the policies of today's theofascist Republican Party.

When Paul Ryan claims to have influenced by Ayn Rand, he is lying,
otherwise he would not belong to a party that presided over the largest expansion of government since the New Deal.  I don't even think he read her, either.  Romney certainly never read her, since his entire platform
consists of how he would tweak the dial settings of big government,without ever turning it off completely.   Rand biographer, Ann Heller,said in a CNN interview that she believed Rand would have no respect for Romney or Ryan."