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Roachboy, I wasn't working from my own slice of the population when I said most people are eclectic; I was working from the overall polls and reading I have done about the views of most of America. I'm quite well aware that I'm personally a statistical outlier (more educated, urban, etc), though I feel very much like just a normal guy.

The point I was trying to make is that using political engagement as an organizing principle of life is corrosive to civil society. Hamilton and Madison understood that, and they were right. John Adams viewed partisanship even in government as corrosive (he was naive about that), and he thought the french revolutionary terror was proof of his views - and again, I think he was right.

No, I don't think there is any organized left, even in the parts of the left that purport to be organized. What made you think I believed that? I was just observing that people whose views are out on the left end of the spectrum will tend to think that people in the center-left or center are righties. And never mind the people who really are on the right.