Hot take: both sides of the political isle have more in common than (social) media makes it seem

I agree. All over the world, the cost of living is too high, people can’t afford healthcare, pensions aren’t enough, housing. It’s all over. I’m watching-the French protests as we speak. People are tired. What’s to become of us all, our kids?

That wholly depends on region and the political climate though.

I mean yeah, in healthy democracies like the Scandinavian countries or the Netherlands (with a few notable extremist parties being the exception).

However, in the case of the US, you now have a centre-right party and a far-right party.
The Democrats keep trying to find common ground with Republicans, but it creates a false middle where the Republicans move further right and the Democrats try to engage with that shifting the overton window further right.

I have no issue working with or debating actual conservatives. But reactionaries are a different story. I'll debate whether we should spend more on infrastructure vs education.
I won't debate whether PoC and LGBT deserve civil rights. The former is debate, the latter os attempting a human rights violation.

At an even more basic level, I think most of us are just trying to live our lives, day to day, without trouble. When you think of it that way, it’s harder to justify wanting to make someone else’s life difficult.

The thing about the US politics is that there’s 2 main parties and it seems like there’s this strong winner takes it all dynamic and that only makes things more polarizing for us and it reduces the chance for either side to find common ground. And it doesn’t help that social media in the US is segmented and algorithm-driven on purpose.

@NerdyPotato
It is is implied that that's your sentiment.
We can argue this or argue that but we want the same. Fir things to get better. No. Both sides do not want for things to get better.

I think this idea of centrism of finding common ground has run it's course and has proven that it is just a slow march to fascism instead of flying off the cliff. Because the centre is conveniently always to the right of where we started.


And the fundamental problem that cannot be resolved is only one side believes rights and freedoms are the birthright exclusive to their in group from the monarchists all the way down to modern "conservatism."

Sure, but the rub is better for who?

Some folks are concerned about "our freedom," while others are just, or almost entirely, or even mostly concerned about "mah freedom."

That's just not true. Trump has lost support among normies, but he's gained support from people who identify as conservative Republicans. There is no moderate Right in America anymore.

A valid and timely observation.

No. Both sides do not want the same things. If they did we wouldn't be in this situation.

When you say both sides who are you referring to?