Listen to Ayn Rand's lecture “The Wreckage of the Consensus”
on the Vietnam War, the draft, and the inevitable breakdown of “government by consensus.”
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This was Ayn Rand’s answer to a question following a speech on the Vietnam War.

Question: Why do so many Americans have a paranoiac fear of communism?

TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) - Intro
(00:10) - Why do so many Americans have a paranoiac fear of communism?

"The Wreckage of the Consensus," Ford Hall Forum, 1967

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