Prosthetic Conscience

This should be big news: all the minor presidential candidates, from Left parties like the Greens, to Right parties like the Constitution party, agree on a set of statements that sharply distinguish them all from the Democrats and the Republicans.

An interesting and timely list of examples of white privilege: how similar behaviours are viewed positively or neutrally when done by whites, and negatively when done by blacks.

On the one hand, this article does a good job of showing how Republicans are successful in relating to the non-rational side of American citizens. On the other, its advice to the Democrats is basically more of “How can we learn to gull the masses that well?”

Note that all of the major-party candidates, and Libertarian Party candidate Bob Barr are in the right-wing authoritarian quadrant.