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I mostly agree with this point. However, my general take on things is that most of the population consists of people who don't want to do anything. Leadership mostly consists of inspiring initiative.

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Jim,I'm not a leftist. From my point of observation, there are careful expert participants in the discussion who think the balance of evidence strongly suggests AGW is a problem. I see no careful expert participant who think AGW isn't a problem.

Similarly, there are careful, expert participants who think the basic financial solution to our current state is more stimulus (job creation focus seems more suspect and political to me). I see no careful, expert participants who think the answer is immediately shrinking the size of government or a balance budget ammendment.

So I think claiming that there are always "narcissist ideologues on both sides of a debate" is even-handed but an unhelpful truism in this case.

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