system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: Avoiding partisan hackery does not mean compromising your positions, nor does it mean being some sort of centrist who wants to meet in the middle. It simply means that you shouldn’t allow your position on one subject, dictate your position on another non-related issue.

Your position on abortion policy should not be a good predictor for your position on climate policy.    

If I can guess your position on abortion, gun control, healthcare, education, affirmative action, capital punishment, drug laws, minimum wage, free speech, foreign policy, and corporate taxes, simply by you telling me your views on climate change policy, then odds are you’re just a victim of tribalism and group think, and you haven’t actually come to many of these conclusions through objective research.  

If I were to say ‘I’m a centrist’, it isn’t because I’d want to meet in the middle and compromise on issues I care deeply about.  It is because I’d be all the way left on some issues, all the way right on some issues, in the middle on some, mixed on others, and uncertain some as well.   It’s possible that going all the way in one direction for every issue just so happens to be correct, but I’d say it’s rather unlikely.

I don’t want to give away any of my positions, since they aren’t relevant to my point.
gpt
From what I've seen, people's views on specific political issues are often motivated by more basic views regarding which things are important and how people should interact with society. 

"Objective research" doesn't really determine what one's view is by itself; it just provides information *about* the issue. Your base values are still going to determine what your view on the issue is. 

The reason you can usually guess someone's position on many issues based on their position on one issue isn't because of groupthink, it's because that one issues indicates what they value, so it's likely that their views on other issues are consistent with those values.