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I fall into that category, at least to a limited extent. There is a tendency to label those who post on the Politics board as either left or right and I have been placed squarely into the "right" even though there is plenty of evidence in my post history that this is an oversimplification.
I've found that, as a result of this labeling, I typically am speaking in opposition to the same members over and over, and that I sometimes avoid publically disagreeing with others on my "side" so as to maintain unity.
My extreme tendency in practice, then, is to accept and reinforce the ridiculous dichotomy that predated my arrival at TFP. Perhaps by realizing that most of us are part of the problem, we can attempt to fix it?
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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