Easy,.. when your language is full of generalised terms.
To describe anything in more details,.. is well,. to hard for these people.

They even like to repeat history...
30 yrs ago, when the US was in the middle of the Cold War, the term of "communist" was applied, even though most of the population couldnt even comprehend the actual ideological stucture that is Communism.
So today... once again people are uneducated, and resort back to generalised terms such as 'Peacenik', to replace the oudated term of "communist".

So sixgun,.. do continue with the generalised terms...
Socialist, Communist, Terrorsit, Peacenik, Activist...
only do consider that some of us will actually consider some of these as compliments.