"It makes people use the terms 'liberal' and 'conservative' in stupid, awkward ways!"

well...I guess I should have said clearly 'some' people...or 'many' people, and I should have used a different word than 'makes'....typing in a hurry 'makes' someone miss the main point of my post about how having only major two parties tends to identify each with one of only two major philosophies.

Of COURSE some Americans refer to 'liberal Rupublicans' at times...etc...but we have folks who don't like to have to insert the qualifying nomenclature themselves and just plaster simplistic labels on things.