[hazov]

I'll answer because you appear to be serious about that but consider that I think Ayn Rand ideas pure moonshine, I'll go to sleep now and maybe later I'll come back here and write properly about my opinions on her if you wish.

It's my experience the majority of people just don't really care about political philosophy, they just live and that's all, they are really more interested on who are romantically attracted to them than to think about all the stuff Rand wrote.

I really don't know what you were taught, I studied in a Jewish religious school (a Yeshiva) and for the matter my experience was very different than that of my peers when I reached university, in university I was taught mathematics only and professors had a myriad of political views, including the one who introduced me to Rand's work. But yes, the traditional Jewish thought is very different than whatever Rand ever wrote.