To a amateur it seems heartless and cruel, but most of her writings were about the individual vs mob. She treated the mob or the masses as an individual character. It was more of a critique of mob mentality- from that perspective democracy is criticized.

Democracy absent individual freedom leads to genocide, slavery, and internment camps. Obviously she was traumatized by her mother and the politics at the time. She rallied for exceptionalism over the masses.

The problem with this piece was that it seems to depart from two book reviews and go into a Rand rant.

From a novelist perspective she could do better, but from a philosophical perspective she was dead on. Her works resonate with people because we all see it in action first hand. We all know who the looters, moochers, and producers are. Rand rallied against the idea of mob rule whether it was in the form of democracy or communism. In the novels, elitism is more akin to self confidence and self governance.

In Rands mind the elite or strong were the ones who prepared, planned, and executed a strategy for surviving Katrina. The weak were the ones who did nothing for themselves and expected a rescue. Ir is self sufficiency vs drag on society. Rand experience first hand what happens when the drags of society are the ruling class. You get your business stolen from you twice.