Is there anyone interested in finding common ground? Instead of hating people because of their perceived political beliefs?

[Wonderer67]

Q: Is there anyone interested in finding common ground? Instead of hating people because of their perceived political beliefs?

I appreciate the sentiment of the thread, I see it’s going to shit pretty quickly. Not surprised.

A: No.

 

[Bn2f]

Q: Is there anyone interested in finding common ground? Instead of hating people because of their perceived political beliefs?

I appreciate the sentiment of the thread, I see it’s going to shit pretty quickly. Not surprised.

A: No.

American politics has never been for the thinned skin or the faint of heart.
What many see as a recent change in the dynamic is that we no longer have a reasoned place for compromise.
The question to be asked is - how do you sit with an anti-American who is a communist, pedo, Marxist-socialist? I wouldn't, would you?
How do you explain to a person millions of illegals aren't voting? I can't. Can you?
Where's the common ground truth? No easy answers so conversation can become hateful.

 

[RobDownSouth]

A can-do spirited person who abhors government, especially at the national level, can never see eye-to-eye with a person who believes that government is absolutely necessary to order our lives and protect us from ourselves.

AJ with his annual holiday message of glibertarian bootstrappyness.

Let's revisit 2018 for a moment. AJ, (who notoriously bragged for years that he did not have or need insurance, becoz he had some better....CASH RESERVES) got unceremoniously sacked from his easy-peasy IT job and could only find temp work unloading semi trailers in the cold Missouri night air at Walmart.

He took sick, as sedentary folks forced into a life of physical exertion often do. Came down with "new moania" and atrial fibrillation. That TEN THOUSAND dollars in CASH RESERVES didn't last long in a hospital environment, and Good ole AJ became a ward of the state, a government mooch. Some that glibertarians hate more than anything.

His self-loathing continues to this day.

 

[ChloeTzang]

..... we need to find our commonality instead of hating on the “other people”. I now just want to see people recognize that they agree on far more than they disagree with.

Getting back to the gist of the original question. No. I have no interest whatsoever in finding common ground with totalitarian thugs and fascists. I have nothing in common with Democrat extremists - and those who call themselves Democrats and aren't extremists are largely still calling themselves Democrats because they have no idea where there party has gone. At this stage they're just useful idiots, and I have nothing much in common with them either.

There is no long any common ground. Democrats have gone extreme left and abandoned those of us in the center. C'est la vie.

 

[HisArpy]

Getting back to the gist of the original question. No. I have no interest whatsoever in finding common ground with totalitarian thugs and fascists. I have nothing in common with Democrat extremists - and those who call themselves Democrats and aren't extremists are largely still calling themselves Democrats because they have no idea where there party has gone. At this stage they're just useful idiots, and I have nothing much in common with them either.

There is no long any common ground. Democrats have gone extreme left and abandoned those of us in the center. C'est la vie.

Totalitarians assume that compromise is possible. What they fail to realize is that most people have figured out that what the totalitarians really want is a slice of a pie they're not entitled to have any part of.

Just say no, and have the means to back it up ready to hand.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Illustrating my point about extremists. There is literally no common ground with people like this. In the end, they have to be dealt with and sadly. there's no backing away from that. Russia. China. Cambodia. Venezuela. Now the UK. All have proved that point.