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It's really hard to find anything. I think we might unite if there were an alien attack on the planet, but I'm not sure.
Some things that I'd have thought we agreed on, but we don't, include:
- A reasonable amount of egalitarianism, i.e., "The American Dream", "A rising tide lifts all boats". Republicans seem to have no bottom to how they're happy for many Americans to do, much less the rest of the world.
- Opposing pandemics. I'd have bet money on this one before Coronavirus, and I was wrong. They have indulged in denial, a lack of response, actively opposing public safety measures, fighting FOR the virus against the American people, with apparently no sense of shame for their actions.
- Democracy. They not only support centuries of anti-Democratic measures such as the Electoral system and Gerrymandering and voter suppression, but they now are supporting the direct overthrow of democracy with the 2020 election.
- Public higher education. IN any number of ways, they try to curtail higher education.
- Opposing corruption. From fighting laws against bribery to supporting unlimited 'dark money' and other corruption of our political system.
- Universal healthcare for the American people. They directly support many tens of millions of people being without healthcare coverage.
- The use of nuclear weapons. While I haven't seen support for killing the human race with nuclear weapons, they do support 'limited' nuclear weapon use, i.e., our using them to kill others.
- The constitution.. I have never yet seen the right say they want something, but will refrain from doing it because the constitution limits them. Instead, they have a top priority of creating a radical army of lawyers with the Federalist Society and taking over the courts to re-write the constitution from the Supreme Court, which they now have 6 votes to do.
- Freedom. It's a word they use for propaganda, but only by assaulting it with re-definition, e.g. 'the freedom to not wear a mask in a pandemic' or 'the freedom to deny others rights'. When it comes to actual freedom, they care nothing, for example, their donors want them to pass "Ag-Gag" laws against the truth about food production being told to the people, and they happily pass them.
- Opposition to tyrants. We just watched them have no problem with a president being completely subservient to Putin, even when Putin was caught paying for bounties to kill American soldiers, and saying he had fallen in love with Kim Jong-Un, as well as bragging that he had saved the dictator in Saudi Arabia from accountability for murdering a US resident.
- Quality journalism.
Some things that I'd have thought we agreed on, but we don't, include:
- A reasonable amount of egalitarianism, i.e., "The American Dream", "A rising tide lifts all boats". Republicans seem to have no bottom to how they're happy for many Americans to do, much less the rest of the world.
- Opposing pandemics. I'd have bet money on this one before Coronavirus, and I was wrong. They have indulged in denial, a lack of response, actively opposing public safety measures, fighting FOR the virus against the American people, with apparently no sense of shame for their actions.
- Democracy. They not only support centuries of anti-Democratic measures such as the Electoral system and Gerrymandering and voter suppression, but they now are supporting the direct overthrow of democracy with the 2020 election.
- Public higher education. IN any number of ways, they try to curtail higher education.
- Opposing corruption. From fighting laws against bribery to supporting unlimited 'dark money' and other corruption of our political system.
- Universal healthcare for the American people. They directly support many tens of millions of people being without healthcare coverage.
- The use of nuclear weapons. While I haven't seen support for killing the human race with nuclear weapons, they do support 'limited' nuclear weapon use, i.e., our using them to kill others.
- The constitution.. I have never yet seen the right say they want something, but will refrain from doing it because the constitution limits them. Instead, they have a top priority of creating a radical army of lawyers with the Federalist Society and taking over the courts to re-write the constitution from the Supreme Court, which they now have 6 votes to do.
- Freedom. It's a word they use for propaganda, but only by assaulting it with re-definition, e.g. 'the freedom to not wear a mask in a pandemic' or 'the freedom to deny others rights'. When it comes to actual freedom, they care nothing, for example, their donors want them to pass "Ag-Gag" laws against the truth about food production being told to the people, and they happily pass them.
- Opposition to tyrants. We just watched them have no problem with a president being completely subservient to Putin, even when Putin was caught paying for bounties to kill American soldiers, and saying he had fallen in love with Kim Jong-Un, as well as bragging that he had saved the dictator in Saudi Arabia from accountability for murdering a US resident.
- Quality journalism.
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