Remember how during the economic collapse in Atlas Shrugged people start doing “Who is John Galt?” graffiti?
In the last pages of the novel (which reason magazine editor Matt Welch has never read), as the economy collapses and the government becomes a dictatorship and cities lose power, Americans who don’t know exactly how and why the collectivist policies they tacitly supported caused the collapse, do, from their native surviving common sense, begin slapping bureaucrats so hard they break some jaws, and begin scribbling graffiti on walls reading “Who is John Galt?”
Today DC is immobilized, hysterically, by a few inches of snow, following a week where a whole zip code (Logan and Shaw) could not drink the government water, which smelled like kerosene (still no explanation). Most of Dupont Circle, including one of my offices, has no power today, even though all the power cables there are under ground. This is in a city where power goes out to many neighborhoods every year when a tree limb falls, and where Metro elevators and escalators are perpetually breaking down.
MRT @whitmanwalker UPDATE: Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center closing for rest of day/evening; uncertain when power will be restored.
— NBCWashington (@nbcwashington) January 6, 2015
And today on one of the buses I took so as not to drive in the snow I saw this Obamacare poster, humorously defaced. My first reaction: Methinks the natives are getting restless! I chuckled aloud. But it turns out the ad is part of a series of very, very, neatly defaced ads. The insurance companies are putting out ads targeting people who are frustrated with or hate Obamacare! For the many people whose eyes would normally glaze over if presented with an ACA related ad, this ad gets them to read about the policy offered, by seeming to be rebellious anti-ACA graffiti.
The Insomniac Libertarian 