This entire study is based on the completely false and contrived idea that politics is binary. There is not some sort of line with "liberal" and "conservative"

This entire study is based on the completely false and contrived idea that politics is binary. There is not some sort of line with "liberal" and "conservative" ends that people fall along. Its a false paradigm created and perpetuated by those with vested interests and/or those who have been conditioned to believe this is the case. For example, take the most important of all issues - war. If you are against war, is that a liberal or a conservative position? Most American "liberals" hail Obama as the the great liberal champion. From Afghanistan (where his first act in office was to triple the number of troops) to Libya (where he launched countless bombings and missiles and toppled the central government) to a massive increase in robotic drone assassination globally, he was a big proponent of war. Is being against war a conservative position? A brief look at our last "conservative" president (not counting our current president who seemingly has no coherent ideology) George Bush destroyed Iraq with his illegal invasion, invaded Afghanistan and massively expanded our global military footprint. The same question can be asked about a wide variety of the most important issues. Are you a liberal or a conservative if you oppose the police-state (constructed by "conservative" Bush and massively expanded by "liberal" Obama). If you are against central banking and a centrally controlled economy, does that make you a liberal or a conservative (the same group of supply-side economists have been running the FED, the SEC, and every other lever of the economy since the 90s, throughout all administrations - including currently with "liberal" Gary Cohen running things for Trump). The simple truth is that there is no ideological definition, because the terms "liberal" and "conservative" have virtually no meaning in modern society, and simply morph into matching whatever positions are currently held by Democrats and Republicans. Pretending that ideology can be pegged along this binary Democrat/Republican paradigm is very useful if you are a Democrat or a Republican, but not useful at all if you seek to understand the human pysche.