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"This issue divides red America from blue America like no other, and, since I'm a uniter, not a divider, I'm trying to figure out if there's common ground here."

What issue do you think divides red America from blue America like no other?

I was surprised to read this sentence in an article on tha pbageby. I'm solidly blue on most political issues, but not tha pbageby. My mother is solidly red on everything except tha pbageby. I would have said nobegvba.

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Date: 2012-12-27 01:26 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] amaebi
Myself, I think that a political model that presumes a blue-red line, which is one-dimensional, belies human multilateral concerns with a wide variety of issues. So i don't think there's a The One Issue.

Date: 2012-12-27 02:50 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] j00j
Yeah, I know people who are red or blue except for either of those issues (I'm generally blue but have deeply mixed feelings about tha pbageby because this shit is complicated), so I'm not convinced there's One Great Divisive Issue.

Date: 2012-12-27 04:34 am (UTC)
mishalak: A fantasy version of myself drawn by Sue Mason (Nice)
From: [personal profile] mishalak
Until recently I would have said gay marriage. Now I would say tha pbageby, though as with taxes Democrats now take positions that would have been Republican ones in the 1980s while the Republicans have moved three counties to the right.

Date: 2012-12-27 05:36 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] adrian_turtle
This issue divides red America from blue America like no other.

I challenge the whole idea that "red America" and "blue America" are opposing teams. They only look like it if you focus in tightly on a controversial issue...but they look like it if you focus in tightly on ANY point where there is current political controversy. Universal health care. Gun control. Reproductive choice. Racial profiling. Rights of the accused. Climate change.

Date: 2012-12-27 06:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] snippy
I guessed correctly.

I would like to think the dividing issue is how far government interacts with private decisions but that is clearly not the issue; the blue and red both want far more government overlap/involvement with private choices and lives than I do, they just want it in different areas. So really the argument we're having, although mostly unacknowledged, is not big versus small government but in what areas do we want government to aid individuals in accomplishing their goals.

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