What can be done to bring liberals and conservatives together?

Question

How could we get both sides, and I mean "sides", together to try and start working together and make America great again. With all this constant slamming being reported in the media, we have become a laughing stock to the rest of the world.

Answer 1

A good start would be to throw away the labels and the categories.

People often talk about "all liberals" or "all conservatives" as if those groups were single-minded monolithic blocks of people who all thought exactly the same way on every issue.

The way to start getting past our differences is to start treating each other as individuals, and actually listening to the arguments on specific issues.

Sadly, that requires rather more time and effort than most people seem willing to put into the process.

Answer 2

Well, to answer your post in reverse order: That we slam each other isn't our biggest problem regarding how others see us. It's not that we're a laughing stock because of the political divide, it's that we're dangerous because we are a rogue state, as it were.

Notice you got an answer (if it isn't removed) advocating the murder of over 100 million Americans, and another advocating their imprisonment.

All because liberals are liberals (considering that America is itself a liberal idea, that attitude becomes more absurd).

I mean, come on! If I disagree with you I should be killed or imprisoned -- that's the most un-American idea there is.

I don't pay a lot of attention to names here, but I suspect I just answered a similar question of yours.

It is hard to see how to mend this.

Barak Obama is saying this is what we need to do, and, I believe, in one of his books suggests how we might accomplish it. It would be interesting to see what he says.

Although there are haters on both sides, I can't help noticing how much more closed-minded, "kill them all" stuff I see from the right. This has been spewed into public discourse for a couple of decades now, in semi-mainstream channels.

A LOT of people are buying the hate and lies.

Notice this site -- it's supposed to be a civilized place to ask and answer questions, yet there are a LOT of users who use it to spew hate. (In politics, religion, and other categories and divides.)

Although there are reasoning and reasonable people on all sides, discourse gets overrun with the bashers.

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If there were a way to have some forum where civil discourse prevailed and the haters were shouted down (rather than those of good will being shouted down by the haters), we could find much more common ground than we do.

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I'm in violation of the Guidelines of this site for not answering your question,

;-)

but I just don't know.

Answer 3

Focus on the divide and who is really causing it. As you mentioned, "the constant slamming being reported in the media." The media is contributing heavily to the divide in this country. Remember, sex sells.

If we buy it, they will sell it. Most of us do not eat, sleep, and drink politics. We live our lives and hold our views, and get along with whomever we have to out there. But we are allowing politics more and more at the forefront of our lives.

Maybe that's why our parents said politics weren't for polite company.

Answer 4

For one thing we need more centrist control. Lately we've had radical in control on one side and that brings out the radicals of the other side. The radicals are the most vocal and so seem to be a larger group than they really are.

Another thin we can do is dump conservative hate radio commentators. Those stations including Fox should be allowd to broadcast because of 1st Amendment rights but some of the people on those stations go too far. The same with the liberal radio commentators.

Answer 5

I would say you are much more of a worry than a laughing stalk! Start voting in alternative parties like the Green Party. These guys you are talking about are overconfident dictators of policy!

They are so entrenched historically that up until recently I thought you guys only had a two party system! Now that, is calculated to create a black and white view of the world isn't it?

Get some other parties some seats in the House or whatever you guys call it. They don't have to form the government to get things moving!

Peace.

Answer 6

Get the liberals to do these things....

Lose the guilt complex and proudly put America first, stop trying to find a way to blame George Bush and America for every problem in the world.

Stop glorifying and romanticizing dictators like Ahme - whatever the iranian's name is, Fidel Castro, etc. They are not on our side.

Stand up for traditional values in America, or at least stop attacking them.

Don't support Hillary Clinton.

Answer 7

Libs could grow up and experience reality rather than their fantasy land...that would automatically make them conservative...as the wise sage once said
If you are not a liberal by the age of 25 you have no heart
If you are not a conservative by the age of 30...you have no brain

Answer 8

Maybe the stark realization that this crap is bringing our country down rather than making life better for us all.

We are not the laughing stock quite yet. But soon if things do not change.

Coragryph I am impressed..............

Answer 9

.Conservatives think that the rapture will bring people together.
Liberals think that a good education will bring us together.
As long as we are peg- holed and keep the population at odds, the better prospects there are for our political parties to carry on as usual; and that means to not show improvemnet.

Answer 10

Put all the libs in prison and hire cons as guards.