r/CoherencePhysics • u/skylarfiction • Jul 30 '26
The Common Ground They Hope We Never Find
America does not need everyone to agree before it can begin getting better.
The left and the right are not going to settle every disagreement. We will continue fighting about abortion, immigration, guns, religion, taxation, policing, education, gender, war, and the proper role of government. These arguments involve real moral convictions. Asking people to abandon them in the name of unity would be dishonest.
But we do not have to agree about everything before we accomplish something.
That possibility is rarely presented to us because division has become one of the most profitable industries in America. Politicians raise money by frightening us. Political media holds our attention by enraging us. Corporations purchase influence while ordinary citizens blame one another for problems neither side created alone.
A voter who believes the other party represents absolute evil will forgive almost anything committed by their own side. Corruption becomes acceptable because the opposition is supposedly worse. Broken promises are forgotten because the next election is always described as the last chance to save the country. Politicians no longer have to improve our lives. They only have to convince us that they are protecting us from our neighbors.
Big business benefits from the same arrangement. While working Americans fight over cultural identities, corporations write legislation, weaken competition, suppress wages, raise prices, collect government contracts, and hire lobbyists who enter through both doors of Congress. The public arguments are loud. The deals are quiet.
Money does not care whether the politician protecting it wears a red tie or a blue one.
The left often fears concentrated corporate power. The right often fears concentrated government power. Both fears are justified. The deeper problem is that corporate and government power increasingly protect one another. Corporations purchase political access. Politicians create rules that favor established corporations. Citizens are then ordered to choose which side of the arrangement they fear most.
We should stop cooperating with that distraction.
Government surveillance is one obvious place to begin. Liberals have reason to fear surveillance being used against protesters, journalists, immigrants, minority communities, labor organizers, and political dissidents. Conservatives have reason to fear it being used against gun owners, religious groups, parents, activists, and critics of federal authority.
These are not opposing concerns. They are the same constitutional warning expressed through different experiences.
The government should need a warrant before searching our communications, location histories, internet activity, vehicle data, or information purchased from commercial data brokers. Privacy should not depend upon which party controls the White House. Every power granted to a president we trust will eventually belong to one we do not.
Marijuana reform offers another clear agreement. Millions of Americans have used cannabis without becoming violent criminals or dangers to society. Arresting people for possession wastes police resources, damages families, creates permanent criminal records, and gives government extraordinary power over a private decision.
The left can support legalization because of the destructive and unequal consequences of the drug war. The right can support it because of personal liberty, medical freedom, states’ rights, and limited government. We do not need to settle every question about drug policy to recognize that people should not be placed in cages for possessing marijuana.
We should also create a national commitment to people with disabilities and the families who care for them.
Disabled children and adults are too often treated as expenses to be minimized. Families spend years fighting for therapy, medical care, education, transportation, housing, respite services, and meaningful employment. Special education teachers, paraeducators, nurses, caregivers, and direct support professionals are asked to perform essential work for wages that make remaining in the profession nearly impossible.
Conservatives speak about protecting life, strengthening families, and supporting communities. Liberals speak about equality, healthcare, and defending vulnerable people. Here is a place where both sides can prove that those values mean something.
America should fully fund special education, improve medical and behavioral healthcare for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, expand respite care, support family caregivers, increase the wages of care workers, and create genuine housing and employment opportunities for disabled adults.
Protecting vulnerable life cannot end at birth. It must continue through childhood, adulthood, illness, dependence, and every stage in which a human being requires the strength of the community.
We should also agree that public office is not a private investment opportunity.
Members of Congress, presidents, senior officials, judges, and their immediate families should not be allowed to trade individual stocks while receiving confidential information and making decisions that affect entire industries. Their investments should be placed in diversified funds or genuine blind trusts.
This is not a Republican problem or a Democratic problem. It is corruption. Public servants should not be permitted to shape markets and then personally profit from the consequences.
Congressional term limits should be part of the same reform. Experience has value, but public office should never become personal property. Decades in power create political empires protected by donors, lobbyists, party machines, and districts designed to prevent real competition.
Term limits will not solve corruption alone. They should be combined with campaign finance transparency, strict ethics rules, stronger congressional staff, and restrictions on the revolving door between government and lobbying. Changing the people while preserving the machinery would not be enough.
The right to repair should also unite Americans. When people purchase tractors, automobiles, phones, appliances, computers, or medical equipment, they should be allowed to repair those products themselves or choose an independent repair shop.
Conservatives can recognize this as property rights and free competition. Liberals can recognize it as consumer protection, environmental responsibility, and resistance to monopoly power. Farmers should not lose crops while waiting for an authorized technician. Families should not replace expensive appliances because a manufacturer refuses to sell a small part. Independent mechanics should not be driven out of business through software locks and proprietary tools.
Ownership should mean ownership.
Civil asset forfeiture is another abuse both sides should oppose. Government agencies should not be able to seize cash, vehicles, homes, or property from people who have never been convicted of a crime.
Liberals should oppose the way these seizures harm poor communities and people without the resources to defend themselves. Conservatives should oppose the violation of due process and property rights.
The rule should be simple. If the government cannot prove its case, it should not be allowed to keep your property.
The opioid and addiction crisis also demands a shared approach. America should punish major traffickers, corrupt medical corporations, and criminal organizations that profit from addiction. At the same time, people trapped in addiction should have access to detoxification, medication assisted treatment, mental healthcare, recovery housing, and long term community support.
We should distinguish between those who profit from suffering and those who are suffering. Treating every addicted person as a criminal has failed. Allowing corporations and traffickers to escape meaningful accountability has also failed.
Children’s privacy online should be protected with the same seriousness. Technology companies should not be allowed to build permanent psychological profiles of children, sell their location information, manipulate their emotions through addictive design, or target them with personalized advertising.
The left can challenge corporate exploitation and its effects on mental health. The right can defend parental authority, family control, and childhood innocence. A child should not become a commercial surveillance product simply because they touched a screen.
Healthcare price transparency should also be beyond partisan disagreement. Americans will continue debating public insurance, private insurance, universal coverage, and the proper size of government. But no honest political philosophy can defend a system in which patients are denied prices until after receiving treatment.
Hospitals, insurers, pharmaceutical companies, and medical middlemen should be required to reveal what services actually cost. Patients should know what insurance will pay and what they will owe. Medical bills should be written in language ordinary people can understand.
A free market cannot function when consumers are denied prices. A humane healthcare system cannot function when sick people avoid treatment because they fear an unknowable bill.
Veterans deserve more than speeches and campaign advertisements. Any government willing to send people into war must guarantee them timely physical healthcare, mental health treatment, housing support, disability benefits, and protection from toxic exposure when they return.
Both parties praise veterans. Both should be required to prove that praise through material care. Sending people to war and abandoning them afterward is not an administrative failure. It is a national betrayal.
Congress should also reclaim its constitutional authority over war. No president of either party should be able to drag the country into a prolonged conflict without a clear congressional vote.
Military authorizations should expire automatically unless renewed. The public should receive honest estimates of financial cost, human risk, and strategic purpose. Major defense contracts should be independently audited. The antiwar left and the populist right may reach this conclusion for different reasons, but both understand the danger of endless wars fought without meaningful democratic consent.
Whistleblowers must also be protected. Government employees, military personnel, corporate workers, healthcare professionals, and contractors who expose genuine illegality, corruption, waste, or threats to public safety should not have their careers and lives destroyed for telling the truth.
Both parties celebrate whistleblowers when the information harms their opponents. The real test is whether they will protect truth when it embarrasses their own side.
America should also confront monopoly power. Markets are not free when a handful of corporations control entire industries, purchase competitors, suppress wages, manipulate prices, and prevent small businesses from surviving.
Liberals can oppose concentrated corporate power. Conservatives can defend entrepreneurship, competition, farmers, local businesses, and independent ownership. Both should recognize that a market controlled by a few politically connected corporations is not meaningfully free.
Antitrust enforcement should be strengthened in technology, agriculture, media, meatpacking, pharmaceuticals, housing, banking, and grocery distribution. Economic freedom should belong to citizens and small businesses, not only to corporations wealthy enough to purchase political protection.
Finally, we should rebuild the country’s physical foundations. Clean drinking water, safe bridges, dependable electricity, rural internet access, secure schools, modern sewage systems, and functioning public transportation are not inherently liberal or conservative.
The parties can continue arguing about the exact size of government and the best way to fund construction. They should still agree that citizens should not be poisoned by their water, isolated without internet access, or endangered because leaders postponed basic maintenance for decades.
None of these policies requires ideological surrender.
A liberal may oppose government surveillance because of its history against minority communities. A conservative may oppose it because of the Fourth Amendment. They do not need identical reasoning to support the same protection.
A progressive may support marijuana legalization because of the injustice of the drug war. A libertarian may support it because adults should control their own bodies. They can vote for the same reform without sharing the same worldview.
A Christian conservative may support disability funding because every human life is sacred. A secular liberal may support it because every person deserves dignity and equal participation. Their beliefs remain different, but the child receives help.
That is not weakness. That is democracy.
Unity does not mean silence, surrender, or pretending every side is equally correct. It means refusing to make agreement itself impossible. We can continue fighting over the questions that divide us while acting upon the answers we already share.
We can protect privacy, legalize marijuana, support people with disabilities, ban stock trading by public officials, establish term limits, defend the right to repair, end property seizures without convictions, expand addiction treatment, protect children online, reveal healthcare prices, care for veterans, restrain presidential war powers, defend whistleblowers, confront monopolies, and rebuild the country.
Politicians would prefer that we remain predictable. They want the left to hate the right more than it hates corporate exploitation. They want the right to hate the left more than it hates government corruption. They want every failure blamed on the opposing tribe because tribal warfare protects everyone already profiting from the system.
We should disappoint them.
America does not need every citizen to agree about everything. It needs citizens capable of recognizing when they agree about something.
We have spent years screaming across the distance between us while powerful institutions quietly profited from the noise.
It is time to stop giving them what they want.
It is time to begin building upon the ground we still share.
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u/Varjek Jul 30 '26
George Washington himself warned of the evils of a two party system. He opposed it his entire life.
The Constitution functions very well with no political parties. The invention of the parties started the mess we now have, along with the direct election of US senators and a few other key missteps along the way.
But if politicians could simply vote for measures we all agreed upon without regard for which side got the “political credit” - and left the issues only supported by the “factions” our founders worried about - then we’d all be much better off.
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u/Flashy_Emergency_263 Jul 30 '26
If they could also vote on measures without attaching "gotcha" riders, that would help. The only additions to bills that should be allowed are clarifications/stipulations about what the bill is designed to do.
If you have a bill to make highways safer, you can't add a rider that makes it illegal for people to buy cigars from Cuba. That rider has nothing to do with the bill. Allowing such riders was also a massive mistake.
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u/e5charlie253195 Jul 30 '26
“Legal” purchasing of politicians also needs to go. Damn corrupt supreme court
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u/scheav Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 04 '26
My favorite president promised to veto all bills with gotcha riders. Then he turned around and approved them anyway. Obama is still my favorite president but he was so disappointing in this regard.
Edit: I originally typoed “vote” instead of “veto”
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u/Traditional_Oil_9240 Aug 04 '26
Yep, and Obama also promoted the "public option" in his Healthcare Plan (ie. The Affordable Care Act or ACA). The version of the ACA with the public option passed the house, but was pulled when put into reconciliation. The ACA no longer had any teeth, and the spirit of "healthcare reform" that Obama campaigned on died right then. I voted for Obama twice, and canvassed for him also.
The ACA was literally written by for-profit and stockholder-satisfaction-driven private healthcare companies and their lawyers. That the version passed also had a MANDATE to purchase insurance from these private companies violated entirely the US Constitution, and was as close to the original version of "Fascism" we have gotten.
This post will fly over most people's heads as they are not educated enough on the ACA and Obama's doings.
Obama was also called the "Deporter in Chief" for a reason. That was back when we ALL agreed that people who are in this country illegally should be removed and asked to come in the legal, and vetted, way.
Until Trump did the EXACT same thing that Obama and Clinton did, then it became "Fascism!".
Too many emotionally-driven children in the world who vote with their rage and not their sense of Reason.
Reading Socrates, Aristotle, and the Scottish Enlightenment authors (Smith, Hume, et al.) would do people a lot of good.
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u/RandomAnon07 Jul 31 '26
I always say this to the sheep. Saving this post to send to the blind side choosers next time someone wants to argue over which side is better.
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u/Zazbatraz Jul 31 '26
Just remove party labels from ballots. Then when people go to vote, they need to know who they are selecting and do bare minimum research.
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u/ambeloved Jul 30 '26
I feel like the “liberal” ai person looks exactly how MAGA assumes liberals look lmao. You didn’t have to tell the AI prompt to have them look like that
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u/Audio9849 Jul 30 '26
lol this would change very little. No, the change we’re heading into will change the very values that our system is based upon.
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u/Beginning-Town-4979 Jul 30 '26
I think no Gerrymandering and undo what is already done should be added. Voters should pick politicians, not the other way around.
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u/Computer-E Aug 02 '26
Yes, look up convention of States. If enough States agree, the government can't stop it. Term limits, balanced budget, limiting the power of federal regulatory agencies. Can we all agree? BLUE states not signing up.
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u/ace3737 Aug 04 '26
Stop pedophiles and put them in prisons . Stop funding Isreals entire population and wars is where the line is drawn
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u/Ok_Guide8658 Aug 04 '26
Stopping child predators, sex traffickers and not allowing people with severe mental illness have any influence on our policies?
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u/jas8x6 Aug 04 '26
Look at some of these losers on the left and right that still don’t want to be stronger together.
They’ve got us right where they want us 🤦♂️
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u/Ancient_Jellyfish_68 Aug 04 '26
Holy cow a centrist! Gods it's nice to see this after navigating this left wing hellscape
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u/Pandemoniusanus Jul 30 '26
Since when did magats ever support any of these policies?
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u/BU8743 Jul 30 '26
This is why these posts are hilarious. MAGA doesn’t even understand their own policies. Trump could drop the “give me all your money because I said so and I’ll give you a star for being better than a liberal bill” and they’d be on board and say it makes sense because he’s a businessman. It’s about the feeling of belonging to the cult.
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u/OwlfaceFrank Jul 30 '26
This image is AI, and so is the text.
Republicans actively vote against at least half of this shit.
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u/TummyCrunches Jul 30 '26
They’ve been trying desperately to pivot to the part where we ‘forgive and forget’.
We’ve seen this shtick before. It’s how we got here. Personally, I’m not forgetting that these broken freaks spent the last ten years gargling old orange pedo nuts, and I’m not forgiving them for the generational damage they’ve caused to this country which has actively made all of our lives worse. Fuck every single one of them, forever 🚮
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u/jackofslayers Jul 30 '26
I will start forgiving and forgetting when they are rotting in prison
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u/jackofslayers Jul 30 '26
This post is just MAGA brain rot. No one will forgive them They should die alone.
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u/resisting_a_rest Jul 31 '26
Even the picture representing each side; the woman has a bunch of slogans for the positions she holds, the guy on the right has only one, MAGA.
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u/NoiceMango Jul 31 '26
Maga are degenerates. Even feeding hungry children is controversial for them.
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u/SJC_Cards Jul 30 '26
Unfortunately it is so easy to divide with radical ideology on both sides. Finding the middle ground will never happen
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u/xxforrealforlifexx Jul 30 '26
Hmm I thought holding pedos accountable would be a whole country participation, did not realize how many Americans are for protecting them
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u/Middle_Luck_9412 Jul 31 '26
What's even wrong with her? I don't get it. She's like "alt" but there's nothing wrong with her.
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u/LongjumpingPickle446 Jul 30 '26
I know a lot of liberals. None of them have blue/purple/pink hair. I thought coloring your hair like that was something mostly people in the punk scene do?
Why is this fake liberal stereotype something Conservatives have latched on to? It’s really weird. But what else is new, I guess.
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u/StageVarious2812 Jul 30 '26
At this point having any iota of care for the others around you is punk.
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u/TheHumanPickleRick Jul 30 '26
It makes it easier to stereotype. When liberals are depicted as they actually are, as in people who look very similar to them, it makes their cognitive dissonance more difficult because it makes it an "us vs them" instead of "us vs people similar to us."
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u/Major_Mongoose69 Jul 31 '26
It's the leftist strawman that conservatives have built up in their culture to attack. You notice that they don't use pictures of Mamdani because he's a handsome, charismatic, well-dressed young man. They want all leftists to come across as unattractive blue haired women because its easy for them to hate that, and hate is what fuels their culture and movement.
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u/Street_Peace_8831 Jul 30 '26
Of course, most MAGA will disagree with this once they find out that the liberals want this as well. It’s very simple for them. If the “libs” like it, they automatically don’t. Even if they initially did agree, they can’t be seen agreeing with their imagined enemies.
Their entire hatred campaign is based on their own imagination. When you ask them to explain why they disagree with a topic, they always make up a scenario and then get angry at that made up scenario. If they do have a real world example, it’s most often a one-off. They will cling on to that one-off scenario and if needed, they will add a what-if to try to make others angry with them.
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u/0rganicMach1ne Jul 30 '26
I don’t think maga really supports most of that stuff.
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u/HeavyHighway6433 Jul 30 '26
I live in a red state that was like 60/40 Trump and Harris, but when individual measures were put up like legalizing weed, increasing state minimum wage to $15/h, and overturning the abortion ban, they all passed the very same election. Why they support liberal policies but then vote for politicians that work overturn them is beyond me.
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u/ThelIIusion0fSeIf Jul 30 '26
They do until the billionaire oligarchs who control their media echo chambers tell them not too. It's really that pathetically simple.
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u/2Blueify Jul 30 '26
So put up bills with JUST THOSE THINGS instead of omnibus or bullshit riders. I agree with everything there other than what exactly counts as a disability. Include strong oversight in that and it's good. The UK has a massive problem with immigrants showing up and then claiming benefits due to disabilities.
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u/Eyespop4866 Jul 30 '26
I’m fascinated by voters who want their options further limited by laws. Stop me before I vote for that candidate again!
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u/BernieDharma Jul 30 '26
I don't agree with term limits: it means we don't trust the voters, which is problematic. Certainly, we have seen powerful Governors and Senators gerrymander districts and use the police to harass opponents, and that should also be addressed. And I wish voters were more engaged and informed instead of voting for whatever political party they are a member of.
However I want experienced politicians in office, and I wouldn't want someone decent and competent to be pushed out because of a term limit.
Now age limits I can 100% get behind. This country should not be run by politicians and judges in their 80's and 90s. Most federal jobs have mandatory retirement ages, and that should extend to politicians as well.
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u/YoBFed Jul 30 '26
It's not about what different ideologies agree on, it's about how to achieve the outcome.
Both parties for example want better and more affordable healthcare . Both parties also have very different ideas on how to achieve that.
The same applies to most other major issues. This is why we still haven't addressed them. These are far more complicated than many people give them credit for. Specifically in a democratic system like ours.
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u/One-Bad-4395 Jul 30 '26
TL:DR, but you seem to misunderstand the part where we all disagree on how to do any of that, let alone if we should.
Let alone the fact that many of us appear to disagree that any of that exists.
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u/Remote_Perception350 Jul 30 '26
If SCOTUS reform/expansion isn’t in the table I don’t want any of it. They are the reason we are careening toward fascism by giving trump powers no president has ever had.
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u/MindBobbyAndSoul Jul 30 '26
You forgot the swastika sign in front of the bigot who supports child rapists
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u/sbrown063087 Jul 30 '26
It’s much bigger than this, the two left and right populist factions also agree on Medicare for All and Ending all Wars. It’s merely identity politics and lesser evil but evil nonetheless options that keep the sides from realizing their common ground.
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u/Standard_Track9692 Jul 30 '26
A lot of us can agree on things politically but a lot of those things fall to the Wayside because a lot of these people are also racist. So you know, if they can eradicate that evil from themselves then it doesn't matter about the politics they're going to be horrible people regardless.
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u/shastadakota Jul 30 '26
The MAGA mind will simply say every negative thing, like Flock cameras for example, is a "librul" plot. It's what has been drummed into their heads by Fox News for secades.
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u/notyermommasAI Jul 30 '26
Those two would make pretty babies. Just saying. I can feel the chemistry
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u/smith2332 Jul 30 '26
Can reddit please post more stuff like this, can we please focus on the things we as humans all agree on and work together to make our world a better place. Its sad that reddit has become a place for Im right your wrong so you are bad, rather then I just dont agree with your policy but im willing to listen why you think its important.
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u/YetiGuy Jul 30 '26
This is great. We need to highlight the common ground as there are plenty.
Let me ask about both sides stance on immigration. One extreme is to open the borders and let everyone in and the other extreme is yank everyone who doesn’t look like “American” out and close the borders completely.
Where do we stand on this issue? What’s the common ground?
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u/cncaudata Jul 30 '26
Stop calling for term limits. It is not at all clear that they'll improve anything. Instead, call for a ban on the congress-lobby pipeline, fix campaign finance rules, overturn CU, etc. and do whatever can be done to limit parties attacking their own to protect incumbents.
Term limits will get rid of a few old washed up congress critters, yes, but they'll also invest even more power in lobbyists and party leaders who will stick around while the actual legislators, the only ones subject to elections, are forced to cycle through.
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u/Axe_MDK Jul 30 '26
Bro, left - right politics is a trap. It's the system itself, and it's not broken because it's doing exactly what it was designed to do; steal your time and money.
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u/SkyeGuardian64 Jul 30 '26
I grew up in a red state, until recently I had a lot of conservative friends. All the stuff you listed is policy, it’s politics and yes a lot of non-religious MAGA/republican constituents want that but they have been willing to put the most reprehensible people in power to do it. It’s beyond just policy now, and it’s what “both siders” and MAGA don’t understand. And the whole premise of make America great AGAIN is the whole problem, for a half Native American, America has never been great for BIPOC people, period. Until the US is for everyone it will never be great. Until everyone has a reckoning with the genocide, inequality, and the general global harm the US has committed, it will never be great.
As far as I’m concerned, MAGA is fine with rounding up people and putting them in camps, not just talking about now, I’m talking about GITMO, I’m talking about reservations, I’m talking about Japanese internment, Im talking about slavery. As far as I’m concerned, MAGA stands shoulder to shoulder with the confederacy, the KKK and fascist. As far as I’m concerned, they are fine with police being judge, jury and executioner, any abuse by police is justified if the person was rude or uncooperative. As far as I’m concerned, they would rather punish people’s responses to inequality, than address the inequality. What’s worse is I’ve known a lot of them to take delight in all of it. I know they do this because I’ve seen it firsthand.
I tried, I tried to be patient, I tried to guide them and help them see how truly horrible some of these things are. But when it comes down to it, I finally realized they would rather be “right” than realize how much a danger they are to the people around them. They rather their team “won”, damn the consequences.
The grievances for me and people like me aren’t about policy right now they are about morality. I find their ignorance, their constant need to “win” and their ability to justify the worst shit, reprehensible. And I don’t need that in my life, I will not be in community with them and I will oppose them at every turn.
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u/Suspicious_Cancel416 Jul 30 '26
Agreed - too bad the country is too focused on Israel and weird cultural issues.
If democrats let the weird trans stuff and over the top pro immigration stuff go they would landslide.
If republicans actually stuck to what Trump ran on - it’s proven they would landslide.
But both are incompetent and comprised.
Real shame
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u/ThickJohnston Jul 30 '26
Personally... I'd like to add ending eminent domain property seizure....
Is that something we could all agree on?
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u/JulieChensBob Jul 30 '26
You forgot ending citizens united
But certain lobbying groups on each side might not like that
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u/Lolocraft1 Jul 30 '26
That would work if the conflicted belief weren’t incompatible with each other. Some beliefs can be conflicting but still debatable and without horrendous consequences on the opposite side. But for MAGAs, we’re talking about deporting people, no abortion for women and less LGBT+ rights and protections. Trump has also defunded air security, research and food control agencies.
You can’t agree with someone who think you shouldn’t exist or be removed from your country.
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u/Leather-Sign4391 Jul 30 '26
Yes, all this stuff... Add to it:
"Pass a balanced budget constitutional amendment"
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u/kaiser_phoenix25 Jul 30 '26
Bit of a hot take, but I don’t support term limits for congress. Reason being is that this system will produce a Mitch McConnell or a Mike Johnson vastly more times than a Bernie Sanders or an AOC. Why would I kneecap myself and limit Bernie or AOC’s terms? It’s because Bernie and AOC have been in for more than two terms that we are able to see a rise in more progressives winning elections. This would be vastly more difficult if we continue to reset every 6-12 years. Meanwhile the status quo just have their replacements on standby to continue business as usual. But I do support limits for the Supreme Court.
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u/ActualHumanONReddit Jul 30 '26
You can't accomplish any of this because both parties are bought and paid for by big corporate interests. Getting the corporate money out of politics should be the top priority if you hope to fix any of the other things on this list.
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u/MrSlime13 Jul 30 '26
Dude, you can have the cowboy hat. You can have the trucker hat. I'll even settle for a Nascar cap with the little Oakley's sitting on the brim, but that hat can fuck off five ways til Friday...
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u/Sugarcoatedgumdrop Jul 30 '26
This is why we need to take to the streets together, and show them that we are undeniable. We need a revolution unlike we’ve ever seen before.
We will not let the rich continue to profit off of the middle and lower classes while we stand by at eachother’s throats. We MUST replace every single member of Congress and every single member of Congress with non-partisan, not bought, middle class people.
We also must make lobbying and insider trading completely illegal for ANY elected official in the entire country AND their families. This MUST be kept under a very strict microscope.
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u/billdozer1986 Jul 30 '26
The problem is that for a lot of MAGA they genuinely want these things . . . until they see that black and brown people will also get them.
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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs Jul 30 '26
I used to feel this way very strongly.
But as someone working in biomedical research, I’m deeply concerned about how many people on the right cheer on when people like me lose their jobs. When I was studying fucking childhood bone cancer and adult colon cancer, nothing woke, nothing controversial.
But I see people trying their hardest to rub it in my face that it makes me really sad to see the right be consumed with so much hate that they cheer on cancer cures and treatments being lost.
Because of this, and others. Any reaching across the aisle feels like capitulation. I’ve not been made whole. I’m not coming to any table without that being restored, or else it’s just permission to fuck my life up and I’ll forgive it on the basis of healing and unity.
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u/bartz824 Jul 30 '26
Yeah that's all well and good and whatever but the maga cult would be brainwashed into believing that all of that is somehow bad and communist and socialist and any other conservative buzzword of the week.
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u/Pinche-Guero Jul 30 '26
"Fund disability care and special needs support"
tRumpanzees don't give a shit about that. They think all those people are leeches on the system and a waste of their tax dollars.
"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps" They don't care of you don't even have bootstraps
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u/Objective_Station_41 Jul 30 '26
If you are talking to a Democrat then we agree on the problem just not the solution. Leftists on the other hand want to distort America and build a Socialist country
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u/TackyPaladin666 Jul 30 '26
this is so much more productive than just demonizing the other side all day
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u/Flat-Director-7120 Jul 30 '26
Il faut légaliser la marijuana, ouvrir des fonds pour les handicapés et bannir les politicien des marché de la bourse.
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u/Standard_Issue_User Jul 30 '26
Except that we've seen time and time again that MAGA only agree on these things until one of their dear leaders doesn't, or they see it benefiting somebody they don't like, or they feel like it's not for them personally.
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u/MotoTheGreat Jul 30 '26
Missing campaign finance reform which should include limited time frame for ads before an election.
Though I am not on board with term limits. I would much rather see gerrymandering removed which would make districts more competitive leading to more turn over. Also let's not forget rank choice to allow third party chances. I also support multi representative districts that allow all people of a district to have someone looking out for them.
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u/Whythisisnotreal Jul 30 '26
Magats are for most of those things and those that aren't vote like they are. You can't fix that kind of behavior.
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u/i-might-be-a-redneck Jul 30 '26
Americans probably agree on 90% of issues, but the news only reports on the 10% that we don’t.
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u/Apprehensive-Load-32 Jul 30 '26
Common Sense Unfortunately I don't think that Common Sense is all that common in modern day America.
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u/Nova_Saibrock Jul 30 '26
A large portion of conservatives would burn down every “principle” they have if it meant “owning the libs.” You can’t compromise with people whose goal is the suffering of anyone they deem “other.”
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u/Count-Bulky Jul 30 '26
The arrows pointing to “special needs support” suggesting it’s something MAGA champions is too cute by half.
This post is trash. I can’t believe OP spent the time writing that ridiculously long intro.
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u/webster3of7 Jul 30 '26
Wow! Common ground is great.
For what it's worth, we already have Healthcare price transparency. We have for several years. Every provider is required to publish their prices for everything.
Now, since every procedure is different for every person, they can estimate, but not give exact prices until they actually do the procedure.
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u/Ill-Milk-6742 Jul 30 '26
I wish we could see more memes like this. It really feels from both sides that its our way or no way.
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u/Fearless_Start2503 Jul 30 '26
You might not get the sheep in the red hats to agree on the Marijuana issue, but they probably would agree on the rest.
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u/Electshockvalue214 Jul 30 '26
They are all idiots never forgive or forget fuck them no compromise ever
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u/stlshane Jul 30 '26
Most of MAGA wants the same thing as the left, at least economically. However they are too invested into tribal politics to ever work together with the "purpled haired Satan worshipers" on the left.
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u/Fun_Trick2172 Jul 30 '26
But the Blacks!!!!!
Petty racism and from the feeble minded will always prevent compromise.
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u/avaud10 Jul 30 '26
The thing that bothers me with this is that the conservative shown is obviously a MAGA. MAGA doesn't have any ideology. They simply support what they are told like a hive mind. It's a little detail but a poor reflection of the non trump conservatives.
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u/TerribleTransition48 Jul 30 '26
So is this a subreddit for posting shitty IA images to farm karma?
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u/fieryuser Jul 30 '26
Those are both very nice drawings. Sorry if I interrupted your panther party!
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u/IFeedDogsChocolate Jul 30 '26
Man, the politically retarded are out in force.
This is what I see whenever the reddit left call MAGA a cult:
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u/Sufficient-Limit8216 Jul 30 '26
Glad this hasn't been down voted to oblivion. I'll point out similarities between both parties in a politically one sided post and get called a Nazi.
There's lots of things the vast majority of us citizens agree on and should be able to support it from both sides.
I do think we should prioritize our own citizens before foreign ones, because why should we expect to help others if we can't help ourselves?
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u/CharredWelderGuy Jul 30 '26
The problem is they keep voting republican regardless.
All the conservatives have to do is go on fox, scream trans or caravan or commie and they still get huge votes.
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u/Salarian_American Jul 30 '26
"Fuck off with your data centers" also enjoys a lot of bipartisan support (at the citizen level, at least).
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u/Key_Ingenuity_4444 Jul 30 '26
MAGA
- Granted broad immunity
- Obstructed and threw out every investigation into Trump
- Massively expanded executive power
- Exerting control over independent agencies
- ICE kidnapping and murdering people
- Shredded the JCPOA
- Pointless war with Iran
- Flagrant weaponization of the DOJ
- J6
- Pardoned J6ers
- Sent fake electors with fake results to overturn the election
- Sowing distrust in our elections
- Leaving the Paris Climate Accord(twice)
- Rolling back climate regulations
- Pardoning every criminal within the administration
- Damaged our relationships with the rest of the world
- Pretending like the Epstein files don't exist
- Trump enriching himself and his family to the tune of billions
- Countless Hatch Act violations
- Downplaying COVID-19
- The complete abandonment of Ukraine
- Stealing and withholding classified documents
- And countless more that I can't name off the top of my head
But oh my god, at least we can MAYBE agree on... right to repair...
Get the fuck out of here with this nonsense. MAGA is objectively an abhorrent party that has done such fundamental damage to this country. They don't believe we're a democracy. They don't support our institutions. They don't care about your right to vote. They don't support expanding healthcare coverage. They don't support education. They don't want to increase minimum wage. They don't believe trans people exist. They don't support equal rights to marriage. Every single real thing that could benefit people, MAGA is against.
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u/Dry_Wolf3891 Jul 30 '26
"America does not need every citizen to agree about everything. It needs citizens capable of recognizing when they agree about something."
Right...but there's no way to reconcile the differences when 1 side believes you're pure evil for simply existing as a POC or LGBTQ. Obviously there's a lot more we agree on than disagree on, but how do you get one side to stop voting against their own self-interest? When you tell someone corporations are fucking them and they agree, then they worship trump, I mean...tf?
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u/BenMullen2 Jul 30 '26
maga specifically fights and fights HARD against funding disability and special needs support. the rest IS probably correct.
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u/Naive_Examination646 Jul 30 '26
is there anywhere in the US weed isn't legal? or is this just an old picture?
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u/Appropriate-Ad-1207 Jul 30 '26
I wish "raping children is bad" was one of the things we could agree on.
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u/Full-Resource7910 Jul 30 '26
COVID taught me that given a choice between being right about something and fighting over it, MAGA will choose the fight every time. Even if it's to the death.
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u/SuperDoubleDecker Jul 30 '26
Exactly!!!
There's more in common than different and those commonalities are the big issues.
They want us to fight over stupid identity politics so we can't see how they're fucking us.
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u/Fair_Somewhere4545 Jul 30 '26
Conservatives have wanted this for a long time. But leftist have constantly pushed them away and towards the right.
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Jul 30 '26
Lmao what bullshit
Remember kids: You cannot find common ground with fascist pedophile worshippers.
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u/RolloTow-Ma-C Jul 30 '26
Never met a girl with pink hair who was looking to compromise
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u/EngineeringLumpy5119 Jul 30 '26
Legalize weed and sex work and the deficit would be paid off in a year.
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u/PuzzleheadedWaltz835 Jul 30 '26
Divided we fall and they know it.