Liberals do not dismiss or treat as ideologically motivated scientific findings, especially the sharpening scientific consensus that human beings contribute significantly to climate change.
ABC News would be smart to use Facebook to develop a consensus around which issues are most important to people, and to sharpen those questions before they are submitted to the candidates.
The report, drawing comfort from the very consensus it wished to do away with, confidently insisted that sharpening their disagreements wouldn't put a forbidding "ideological wall" between the two parties.
That, however, might merely sharpen a trend that Mr Fortuyn had exposed: a growing dissatisfaction with the political establishment and the politics of consensus that the mainstream parties embody.
Therefore, we intellectuals must engage in honest exchange and sharpen each other on the basis of respecting genuine differences, so that we will reach the urgently needed consensuses on the present and future development of China.
As Germans sharpen their statements, in Greece the cuts have come at a steep political cost: the more the economy contracts, the less consensus the government has to carry out the fundamental changes needed to help restart growth.
Cartoonists, sharpen your nibs!
