There is a common hypothesis, becoming increasingly popular on the eve of Obama's election (an important step forward in the history of race relations and a major change from the last eight years of Republican neo-conservative decimation, but hardly a revolutionary or progressive vanguard-to-be), that likes to call itself "color-blind". The reasoning goes somewhat like this: "The ...
Gordon Gekko is commonly cited by market libertarians and Objectivists as a role model. They seem to miss that his numerous character flaws make him a bad one.