All adults of sound mind—yes, technically even radicals qualify—fit into one of the following ideological categories: retrogrades and radicals sit on the two opposite poles (sadly for now, the latter is a much more capacious group than the former). Between them are two kinds of moderate: militant mods are usually lukewarm liberals with some extrinsic reason for not calling themselves such, or for militantly clinging to a false middle; mod-cons are fainthearted but goodhearted people who sometimes call themselves “conservatives”—sometimes not—comprising the more or less decent folk who simply
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