Quote:You're absolutely right.  That is incredibly arrogant.  Calling yourself liberal conservative or even independent is just a means of characterizing your belief system if you have one.  That doesn't inherently mean that you blindly sign on point by point to some tablet written in stone.  

 

There are people across the political spectrum, yes even independents, that  don't want to hear anything other than their own preconceived notions and refuse to engage when facts on the ground change.  There are also people who are rigidly ideological who can give very pointed detailed support for their position given changes in circumstances.  

 

Calling someone LAZY just because they use a commonly accepted descriptor to summarize their political beliefs is LAZY and AAROGANT.  If you want to rail about being able to take individual circumstance into account then you could start by evaluating each person based on how they actually process information rather than just trying to label everyone who thinks they fit in an established thought process.