I'm not fan of Libertarianism. Especially the extreme idealism of it. Often in direct contrast to perceived reality. In fact I see the same, or at least similar idealism as when Marxism was young. Both completely ignored obvious flaws in favor of the vision of the dream.

All of this is true, which is why neither of those movements are particularly significant today in America. Libertarians are fringe, Marxists are nonexistent.

This article was just the usual preaching-to-the-choir junk that you get from (if you'll allow me the same fallacies that the author uses) people who are so smart that they can "see through Rand." Yeah, great, you've realized that Rand's followers are silly. Trumpeting it to everyone like you've had an epiphany quite possibly makes you even sillier.

When I read Rand in junior high, I was on a sci-fi/fantasy kick. She fits into those labels somewhere or another. Atlas Shrugged is just a cool semi-apocalyptic novel that drags on a bit -- if you look at it from an apolitical perspective (I was 12). The Fountainhead is just a sad but triumphant underdog story that got me interested in architecture a for a couple of years. Objectivism is nuts but I don't think I knew what Objectivism was until long after I read Rand for pleasure.