True liberals conservatives are very good critical and objective thinkers.  They are compassionate, too.   Caustic, venomous right wingers,  teabaggers and ultra lefties....not so much.  They all can be plotted under a bell curve.  Data points are not normally distributed in proximity to the mean depending on the topic.  The data points are the chosen handles used in this forum.  Stay tuned on where you are plotted beneath the curve.