Object level problem: I don’t think the political landscape actually factors cleanly into the two categories you provided at all. E.g., if you’d asked me to provide two buckets to group people into, I’d have never thought to put “optimist” and “right-wing” on the label of the same bucket. The groupings you provide are not natural clusters in belief-space; at best they are accidents of history.
Meta-level problem: When people group things, typically they then ask “which side is most right”, get an answer, and then staunchly defend that side (arguments are soldiers, that sort of thing). Really that whole “get an answer” step is just not a good operation, because both sides are likely to be more or less correct on different issues. You’re much less likely to kill your mind if you just try to decide what the most correct position is for each issue without ever collapsing all that information down into “yay blue” or “yay green”. Making the groups in the first place encourages that deadly collapse...
Eek.
Object level problem: I don’t think the political landscape actually factors cleanly into the two categories you provided at all. E.g., if you’d asked me to provide two buckets to group people into, I’d have never thought to put “optimist” and “right-wing” on the label of the same bucket. The groupings you provide are not natural clusters in belief-space; at best they are accidents of history.
Meta-level problem: When people group things, typically they then ask “which side is most right”, get an answer, and then staunchly defend that side (arguments are soldiers, that sort of thing). Really that whole “get an answer” step is just not a good operation, because both sides are likely to be more or less correct on different issues. You’re much less likely to kill your mind if you just try to decide what the most correct position is for each issue without ever collapsing all that information down into “yay blue” or “yay green”. Making the groups in the first place encourages that deadly collapse...