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Love this part “The defining quality of an ideologue, whether on the left or the right, is to acquire one's opinions in bulk.”

Greatest indicator of these people you describe is those that can articulate their thought process to show original thought rather than restating existing arguments.

You explain the term moderate on here, but it’s confusing as moderate generally implies middle, whereas your essay describes more accurately free thinkers.

Yup. Accidental moderate here I'm impressed with myself now.

^ there is is. "accidental moderates" are like the brand of libertarians that feel the need to think they are some how superior in their views or process for forming them while everyone else are clearly just mindless sheep.

You seem to be on an essay writing spree.

I didn't let myself write essays while I was working on Bel, but now that it's done I can write again.