your music choice and what it says about you

Here's the answer, NOTHING.
This all stems from me reading some reviews of CDs on Amazon. As i'm reading the reviews I notice that a lot of people are giving 1 or 2 star reviews for a CD that i think is pretty good and worth at least 3 stars. Reading some of these low reviews i notice a trend, it basically goes this way This CD sucks! They are not punk! How can people seriously judge the musical quality of an artist by the genre they are labeled as? One of these reviewers says "you shouldn't listen to this pop punk sh!#t, Local underground is the real punk". So any mainstream band can not be real punk? And if a local punk band goes mainstream and starts actually making a money they are now pop punk? Can you no longer like them because then you are "not punk"? I listen to punk, do i consider myself punk? No! Your musical taste does not define who you are or how you should act. Grow up and start thinking! That's what i want to say because I want to hope that these reviews were written by teens. That doesn't make me feel any better though. I guess this goes deeper than just music and maybe I should retitle this but oh well, I'm leaving it the way it is. I think this is more about labels. Labeling yourself and labeling others and then judging people by those labels. I guess that's just another way of referring to stereotypes and prejudice. Recently It seems to be everywhere. Loudest of all are the social conservatives. Those people speaking out against abortion, homosexuality, gay marriage and islam. I want to believe this is a small portion of the population but the media coverge and my location(southern US) makes me think that this is in fact an opinion held by large part of the population(the right-wing side to be exact). This could be due to the upcoming elections. Anyway, to the point, our government being bi-partisanis forcing us to pick a side. Label ourselves democrat or republican, conservative or liberal. And i can't do it. I can not choose between these two extremes. There seems to be no viable solution for a person that refuses to choose between the two parties. This has been just a ramble of jumbled thoughts and probably doesn't have a clear point so let me see if a can wrap this up in a nice little package. I don't see how we can have any progress while we refuse to think for ourselves and we allow others to determine who we are and what we should think. On a side note, i need to ask my parents about this since it would be their era, but I wonder if people used the bible to support their hatred of blacks in the civil rights era like people use the bible to support their hatred of gays now.