Okay, this is going to sound a little bit arrogant, but honestly, guys, once you start calling yourself "liberal" or "conservative" that is a sign that you have given up independent thinking.   It means that you have signed onto an orthodoxy, a dogma, and that you prefer to have "leaders" to tell you what to think.   This is why self-identified "conservatives" watch Fox News, and self-identified "liberals" read Huffington Post.  They have made their decision which side they are going to be on, and want to have their political positions explained to them and not challenged by any facts that may cause intellectual dissonance.   They have bought into the "liberals=bad/conservatives=good" or vice-versa.   They want to be given a default position on any issue so they don't have to work through it intellectually.   It's LAZY.  

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