Michael S & Michael P: Categories

Seems like there are two things going on in your exchange: first, the need to acknowledge that much of our political, social and legal landscape is working with these categories (liberal-conservative, right-left), and so we do need to watch for how they are at work in the discourse, and in particular in the conversation about and critique of CST; and second, the desire especially as we engage each other to enter into the complexity of each other's thought, and the complexity of the broader discourse, both as part of the effort to not box each other in, but also make sure we genuinely understand the nuance in each others' thinking.  So can we all agree that the categories are simultaneously real and reductive?