FrF: As another leftish reader, I've greatly enjoyed Eli's posts and agreed unreservedly with probably 80-90% of them. I don't think recognizing the psychological biases that make politics seem more important than it really is precludes any involvement or interest in politics - it just allows you to recognize how often you're not making any difference, and how often you're acting on dogma as opposed to thought. And I hardly think rationality or evolutionary psychology is the property of the non-left.