I don't like Jill Stein or support the Green "spoiler strategy" but let's be honest about it.

[Armstead]

217. That's too much of a generaliation

Conservative and Liberal are useful politicalo labels in some ways, but they are also paradoxical and do not account for the variations.

Life and political systems and human nature are too paradoxical to stick people into narrow boxes. Most people are a mix of liberal and conservative instincts .

One might be a "liberal" in terms of wanting an active role for government in the economy, for example, but "conservative" in the sense of valuing individual freedom of choice.

The paradoxes arise when you start applying that template to personal values.

It is totally possible, for example, to believe in strong liberal government when it comes to regulating business, but "conservative' when it comes to wanting to limit government's power to control things like the right to an abortion.

It is also possible for people to agree on goals but differ in degree or strategy or pace.

To write off large groups of people because they don't fit into a narrow template limits possibilities to actually get anything done or, in a partisan political sense, to build the "big tent" required to gain electoral power.