Hipster CEO John Mackey taken to task by Liberals at Gawker for Libertarian views

He's a libertarian, and everyone knows libertarians are a wing of the GOP

The Gay/Liberal sensationalist celebrity site Gawker highlights Whole Foods Market CEO John MacKay on the top fold. The article: "Meet rightwing hippie CEO John Mackey. He is featured this month on the front cover of Reason, which was the basis of Gawker's attention.

From Gawker:

libertarian magazine Reason stuck Mackey on the cover of their January 2010 issue... is about how this rebel capitalist is playing by his own rules and ruffling a few feathers.

Ayn Rand nothing more than Free Enterprise Porn for Teenage Boys

The piece goes on to describe Mackey's transformation from liberal to money making libertarian. Continuing:

he used to be a liberal but then he started making money and he read Atlas Shrugged and suddenly it all made sense! And he is a political independent! Except, obviously, that means he is a libertarian, which is, still, a wing of the Republican party, even if they pretend it isn't, because it's still primarily about not ever paying taxes for anything while feeling very high-minded about it.

Then Gawker takes even harsher shots at Mackey and more specifically the libertarian movement. Continuing:

the Ayn Rand books that convince teenage boys that they're secretly the masters of the universe happened after he made his first million. Now he's qualified to say Keynes was "proven" wrong about everything, as the financial sector collapses under the weight of decades of Milton Friedman.

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