What is a political opinion you think liberals and conservatives can find common ground on?

[Spunkylama]

What is a political opinion you think liberals and conservatives can find common ground on.​

A little change of pace, I’m not too old but old enough to remember that politics weren’t nearly as tribalistic and partisan as it is now.
That being said what political opinion do you think liberals and conservatives can bridge the gap of understanding and find common ground, whether that be policy, political opinion, social state of the world etc.

 

[Spunkylama]

I personally don't think there is anything we can agree on anymore.

 

[Cardinal]

It only takes one Hannity or Tucker segment to make a commonly agreed upon point hopelessly partisan.

The problem isn't that there isn't common ground. The problem is that culture war has made it too easy to erase that common ground in an instant.

 

[Acadia]

Conservatives and liberals can find much common ground. It's the far-left wing of the Democrat party that is running the show now, and there's virtually no agreeing with their anti-America platform.

 

[Spunkylama]

Conservatives and liberals can find much common ground. It's the far-left wing of the Democrat party that is running the show now, and there's virtually no agreeing with their anti-America platform.

What are the democrats currently pushing that is Anti-America?

 

[Mr Person]

That it's wrong to invade the Capitol building with intent to murder a bunch of officials in order to help an election loser seize power in a coup.


Oh, wait. Damn.

 

[AGENT J]

What is a political opinion you think liberals and conservatives can find common ground on.​

A little change of pace, I’m not too old but old enough to remember that politics weren’t nearly as tribalistic and partisan as it is now.
That being said what political opinion do you think liberals and conservatives can bridge the gap of understanding and find common ground, whether that be policy, political opinion, social state of the world etc.

NORMAL everyday republicans and democrats have tons of common ground and agree on plenty

the issue is partisanship and ignorance of too many . . . to many people don't even understand the facts of a topic or they have been fed false narratives so the common ground issues somehow magically become us vs them
its pure stupidty

see examples like the geniuses that say they like the ACA but hate ObamaCare
hate CRT but cant tell you what it factually is etc etc

 

[Questerr]

Conservatives and liberals can find much common ground. It's the far-left wing of the Democrat party that is running the show now, and there's virtually no agreeing with their anti-America platform.

There are maybe a half dozen members of the “Far Left” in all of Congress and none of them are even close to running the show.

The Democrats are run by worthless Center-Right moderate centrist neo-liberal capitalists.

 

[ttwtt78640]

I personally don't think there is anything we can agree on anymore.

The majority seem to believe that “defund the police” was a very bad idea and that BLM has done basically nothing for ‘the good of the hood’ with it’s $90M in donated funds.

The southern border is now out of control (again) and requires far better security. Where the disagreement comes in, is with the “comprehensive” idea that we should immediately grant amnesty to many millions of ‘undocumented’ immigrants (already illegally inside the US) before the border is actually secured - that lesson was (or at least should have been) learned in 1986.

 

[Spunkylama]

That it's wrong to invade the Capitol building with intent to murder a bunch of officials in order to help an election loser seize power in a coup.


Oh, wait. Damn.

Building gallows and smearing feces on walls and beating cops is wrong? How were they to know?

 

[KLATTU]

I think there is bipartisan agreement the Alexendria Ocasio-Cortez is a smokebomb.

 

[Blue Dog]

People who view the political opposition as an enemy will not see middle ground on anything.

 

[btthegreat]

What is a political opinion you think liberals and conservatives can find common ground on.​

A little change of pace, I’m not too old but old enough to remember that politics weren’t nearly as tribalistic and partisan as it is now.
That being said what political opinion do you think liberals and conservatives can bridge the gap of understanding and find common ground, whether that be policy, political opinion, social state of the world etc.

The voters in both parties, need to decide that politicians who can build coalitions through compromise and negotiations and get bills passed, are better gambles than flame-throwers and poseurs are, and vote accordingly

The voters in both parties, need to realize that if they reward specific campaign tactics and practices with their votes, they will keep getting more of them in their govt. If you vote in favor viciousness, amorality, lies, and cheating as character traits in your primary winners, that is exactly what you will get in your general election campaign. If you reward integrety, honesty, and decency in your primary, that is exactly what you will get in your general election campaign. What you vote for your general election campaign is what you get in your govt.

 

[Spunkylama]

The voters in both parties, need to decide that politicians who can build coalitions through compromise and negotiations and get bills passed, are better gambles than flame-throwers and poseurs are, and vote accordingly

The voters in both parties, need to realize that if they reward specific campaign tactics and practices with their votes, they will keep getting more of them in their govt. If you vote in favor viciousness, amorality, lies, and cheating as character traits in your primary winners, that is exactly what you will get in your general election campaign. If you reward integrety, honesty, and decency in your primary, that is exactly what you will get in your general election campaign. What you vote for your general election campaign is what you get in your govt.

I think you are correct here maybe like 20 years ago. They simply refuse to work together or if they do then the parties call them Rino's and kick them to the curb. It has devolved into pure obstruction and nothing more.

 

[btthegreat]

I think you are correct here maybe like 20 years ago. They simply refuse to work together or if they do then the parties call them Rino's and kick them to the curb. It has devolved into pure obstruction and nothing more.

Its not the parties that kick them to the curb, its the voters who actually do the kicking, by rewarding someone accusing them of being a Rhino for working with their political opponents on legislation, over them. Its really about the voters buying into that message and rewarding the messenger. Voters choose obstruction and legislative paralysis, when they reward obstructionists who then pick majority leaders that help game the system through members of the Rules Committee.

 

[Noodlegawd]

What is a political opinion you think liberals and conservatives can find common ground on.​

A little change of pace, I’m not too old but old enough to remember that politics weren’t nearly as tribalistic and partisan as it is now.
That being said what political opinion do you think liberals and conservatives can bridge the gap of understanding and find common ground, whether that be policy, political opinion, social state of the world etc.

I wonder if most people in the country even would identify themselves as either "liberal" or "conservative." I have a sense that most of this conflict is being driven by the 10-15% of loons on the extremes at either end of the political spectrum. But with our 2-party system, most of us are forced to vote for who we think represents the lesser of two evils on the issues we care about most.

Name a hot-button issue and I bet I can come up with a something close to compromise solution that 60-70% in the middle would support. We need a centrist party. It's time that we stop being governed by the extremists.

 

[SkyChief]

What is a political opinion you think liberals and conservatives can find common ground on.​

Russia's war on Ukraine.

Most liberals and conservatives are in agreement that the war is wrong, and that Ukraine should remain a sovereign state.

Another common ground political issue where liberals and conservatives are in agreement is libertaraians. - - They hate them.

 

[Spunkylama]

Russia's war on Ukraine.

Most liberals and conservatives are in agreement that the war is wrong, and that Ukraine should remain a sovereign state.

Most not all. Some on the right support Putin.

 

[Craig234]

People who view the political opposition as an enemy will not see middle ground on anything.

That's part of a truth. Another part is to build on that point to recognize that it's why a key propaganda goal is to build that hatred of the other side. I'll explain.

Let's say for example, that a group of people we'll call "D" have some valuable information about issues, that would get someone who listened to recognize some good and bad policies on things like who is grabbing money they don't deserve, who is wrongly harming the environment, and so on.

Then let's imagine there's another group we'll call "R" who wants to do the wrong things, and not have people realize they do.

Then "R" creates a lot of propaganda that makes people hate "D". D are commies! D are corrupt! D are the deep state that wants to control you! D are pedophiles! D bad! D bad!

What happens is, the people who fall for that propaganda they hear every day if they make poor media choices, is that it gets to where it doesn't matter what "D" has to say - the people who hate D can't hear it. So if D says 'your guy is corrupt' or 'your side is screwing you', the reaction is all about 'a *D* said that screw them!!' That's the game. It's a lot easier to make people hate D than to sell them lies on policy. Screw D!!!!!

 

[Lisa]

Conservatives and liberals can find much common ground. It's the far-left wing of the Democrat party that is running the show now, and there's virtually no agreeing with their anti-America platform.

There is no far left in the USA. Bernie, AOC, and others are to the right of Eisenhower and FDR. Trump Republicans and supporters of the former TEAparty are fascists who see anyone who isn't a fascist as a radical leftist. The democratic party are center-right capitalists.

 

[Lord of Planar]

What are the democrats currently pushing that is Anti-America?

Just about everything the push is anti-American.

 

[OrphanSlug]

Vote buying, corruption, narcissism.

 

[Lord of Planar]

There is no far left in the USA. Bernie, AOC, and others are to the right of Eisenhower and FDR. Trump Republicans and supporters of the former TEAparty are fascists who see anyone who isn't a fascist as a radical leftist. The democratic party are center-right capitalists.

Wow.

Only a leftists extremist would consider the democrat party center-right.

 

[Atreus21]

What is a political opinion you think liberals and conservatives can find common ground on.​

A little change of pace, I’m not too old but old enough to remember that politics weren’t nearly as tribalistic and partisan as it is now.
That being said what political opinion do you think liberals and conservatives can bridge the gap of understanding and find common ground, whether that be policy, political opinion, social state of the world etc.

Well we tend to agree on Ukraine.

 

[Lisa]

Wow.

Only a leftists extremist would consider the democrat party center-right.

Facts are facts. Biden is not and never has been a liberal. Bernie Sanders is a center-left moderate. He is to the right of FDR, Truman, and Eisenhower. They only look liberal when you are fascist. The top rights are fascists. TThe center is moderates. You have to be left and below the center, cross to be a liberal in any rational sense.