The media pretends that the left and the right disagree about everything, but that just insn't true.
Yes, we disagree about gun regulation, abortion, gay marriage, and Islam but we have much more in common with at least a majority of the 63 million who voted for Trump than we don't. When you strip away the labels, and just talked about every day topics of what’s right and how thing should be, we agree far more than we disagree.
The EPA is a hot button partisan issue, but everyone agrees that companies should not be allowed to dump mercury in to rivers.
Obama care is a lightning rod, but most American's agree that insurance companies should not be able to kick you off your medical insurance because you've had cancer.
Freedom vs. Regulation are fighting words, but everyone agrees we should have restaurant health codes and health inspectors, that the police should be able to stop you for going 60 down a small residential street, and that packaged food companies shouldn't be allowed to put heavy metals and carcinogenic ingredients in your breakfast cereal or pet food.
The reality is that American’s overwhelmingly agree on most topics when we strip away labels, defensiveness.
Most Americans agree that vaccines are good and that it should be illegal to spy into someone's apartment window using a drone. We agree that packaged food should have to list their ingredients, that you shouldn’t skimp on safety precautions with offshore drilling, that of course you have to pay some taxes, and that getting rid of the police entirely would be a bad thing. Most American's agree that you can’t build a factory in a single family suburban neighborhoods and that competition between phone companies and cable companies has benefited most consumers.
We are just being tricked into thinking we are each others enemy by many powerful people it benefits them so much.
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