There ' s no argument to make , just semantics to unwind . Liberal and conservative and all the other labels group populations conveniently but at the considerable expense of nuance . When criticisms are leveled toward a group , in most instances it must be interpreted as an expression of frustration and not as defensible critique , since few groups are universally guilty of the same flaw or even universally possessive of the same attribute , unless that attribute defines the group . It must be said that the lack of nuance has very real ramifications . For example , the absurd RepublicanDemocrat polarity in the U . S . causes a substantial majority of voters to ignore nuance and vote according to a platform . Moreover , most Republics are celebrating recent victory despite the fact that Trump ' s platform was antiLGBT , anticlimate change remediation , and arguably racist . Trump ran as a conservative Republican , so now those groups are shackled to his particular slantnot universally , but in the minds of many and , their triumphant cheers have reinforced the party endorsement of the platform . I hope that explains why the topic at hand doesn ' t bear fruitful argument .