For the vast majority of my posts I am either agreeing with my fellow liberals or debating against conservatives. However, that does not mean I always disagree with the conservatives. As a liberal with a libertarian bent, I am a proponent of decentralized power. This doesn’t mean I want governments weakened against corporate control, only that I think citizens are generally more trusting of their local and state governments than they are of a centralized system ruling over 300 million. If citizens felt more like government was ‘the People’ rather than some nefarious outside entity then our energy could be better focused on seeking solutions rather than fighting each other. Also, different regions hold different values. Can’t help but wonder if this country would be better split up into 4 or 5 different nations, considering the differences in values.
So, on what issues do you agree with the other side of the political spectrum?
English.
Things like requiring at least SOME basic English proficiency for new arrivals.
Hey, it's only fair. Most countries require that you at least be able to stumble along at a rudimentary level in at least one of their dominant languages.
English is the dominant and primary language in the USA and we HAVE to be able to understand each other at least on a rudimentary level.
Guns.
Banning specific gun models or types will not be effective. Point to numbers all you like but the fact is, there are literally MILLIONS of every kind of gun ever made out there.
FOUR HUNDRED MILLION of them.
You can ban ALL guns and there will STILL be four hundred million guns in private hands in this country.
It is mathematically and logistically impossible to get rid of that many guns without bankrupting ourselves because the cost of paying enough people to actually enforce such a thing is unimaginable and incomprehensible, the figure would be that large.
We need to better enforce laws which are already on the books and do a better job checking out prospective gun buyers and owners.
We need to heal the systemic issues in our society that make violence worse. We need an all hands on deck effort in those areas.
Our society, and the global society, is very sick, and in the end it can be guns, or it can be bombs, vehicles, chemical attacks, biological attacks, it can be a lot of things, because the sickest people in our sick societies WILL find a way to act out regardless of whether guns are available or not.
Abortion.
Beyond twenty weeks, unless a birth defect is profound, or the life of the mother is in jeopardy, I support a ban on abortions after twenty weeks.
Trade.
I cannot stomach Donald Trump but aside from him, I do and have in the past, supported a good number of conservative positions on trade.
By the way, I may be wrong on this but I believe the conservative position with regard to splitting up the country is in opposition to such an idea.