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<p>The political climate in America currently feels more divided than ever. But is it possible that we all have more in common than we think?</p><p>A r<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oba5m6/if_you_are_liberal_what_is_your_most_conservative/">ecent Reddit thread </a>asked, &quot;If you are liberal, what is your most conservative opinion?&quot; The answers prove that most people really aren&#39;t 100% one way or the other.</p><h2>1. This guy&#39;s sick of hearing about everyone&#39;s bedroom proclivities.</h2><blockquote> <p>Its perfectly ok for sex to be a private thing. I&#39;m sex positive, I want proper sex education but the trend of sexualising EVERYTHING and being out there and explicit about what and how you like to f*** could be toned down. - Harvey__Denture</p> </blockquote><h2>2. Sounds like you&#39;re talking about cable news specifically, but okay.</h2><blockquote> <p>That the US media system is complete garbage on literally all sides and every single news station propagates so much divisive bullshit for the express purpose of wasting everyone&rsquo;s time by fighting instead of dealing with issues.</p> <p>This is conservative only because a lot of fellow liberals seem to think CNN is somehow not just as guilty about this. - TheKingofHats007</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. If trade schools had more keg parties, I think this idea could take off.</h2><blockquote> <p>I think there should be more trade schools and apprenticeships. That probally would seem conserative to some people, but many smart people sometimes do not fit in well at college. - NearbyAct2360</p> </blockquote><h2>4. Also, childcare is EXPENSIVE if you outsource it.</h2><blockquote> <p>I think the single income nuclear family (one parent works, other parent does house stuff/raises 1-3 kids) is an ideal model and it&rsquo;s a tragedy that most people in the modern era can&rsquo;t afford it, not a success that most adults work now.</p> <p>(The liberal part of this opinion of course is that I see no reason the &ldquo;provider&rdquo; and &ldquo;caretaker&rdquo; roles should be gendered.) - nblackhand</p> </blockquote><h2>5. How has our system gotten this so wrong?</h2><blockquote> <p>Some criminals can not be rehabilitated. They should stay in prison permanently. Also that certain crimes need much harsher sentences. Please be aware I live in New Zealand not America. People don&rsquo;t go to jail here for 99 years for having some drugs. - KiwiChefnz</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6. This is a spicy take.</h2><blockquote> <p>As a gay man, I wish LGBT people weren&#39;t treated as this special unique thing.</p> <p>Seeing rainbows and advertisements everywhere dedicated to people born like me has never made me feel normal. As a young child questioning myself, seeing all the pandering made me feel scared about being something &quot;different&quot; from my peers, even when it wasn&#39;t homophobic or biased (of course this is just my personal view). Like there&#39;s nothing about being born gay or trans that requires the endless media and virtue signaling.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Gay Pride used to be about spreading awareness of discrimination and bigotry, and standing up for our rights. Now it&#39;s a giant pat-me-on-the-back-cuz-im-gay parade, fueled by corporations that often earn millions from countries that genuinely see us as inhuman.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>We don&#39;t need another Gay Pride in New York or LA, we need to reach the many small communities in the US where LGBT kids live in paranoia because they have no comrades or allies. We should erase this idea that your child is put into a social category different from you because of who they like or how they act. - armani_vibes</p> </blockquote><h2>7. Does ANYONE think cancel culture is a good idea at this point?</h2><blockquote> <p>Voted Democrat since 2000 when I turned voting age. Left-wing witch hunts and cancel culture are weakening the party and more important things like environmental issues and may be turning off centrist voters. Bonus f***ery: Latinx is the biggest piece of linguistic colonialism masquerading as wokeness there is. I know ZERO Latinos and/or Spanish speakers that agree with it. A la chingada con esa mierdA - GMane2G</p> </blockquote><h2>8. Nuclear energy is surprisingly clean.</h2><blockquote> <p>I don&#39;t know if this is necessarily conservative, but I&#39;m somewhat pro nuclear energy. I think harnessing nuclear energy could help slow the speed of climate change. It&#39;s obviously not great since it still produces terrible waste, but I don&#39;t think it&#39;s as bad as fossil fuels and there&#39;s a lot of room for growth and improvement in nuclear energy.</p> <p>Eco nuts who think we can solve everything with only wind and solar power aren&#39;t being realistic. - squawk_kwauqs</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. The amount of luxury apartments in New York City with zero people living there...</h2><blockquote> <p>I don&#39;t think people should be able to buy property in the U.S. unless they live here. It would be fine if they live here even part of the year. But foreigners and companies buying residential property as investments price so many people out of the market. - trekbette</p> </blockquote><h2>10. Because a national ID system would infringe on people&#39;s right to... I don&#39;t know, not have an ID?</h2><blockquote> <p>It&#39;s not that crazy to want to require ID to vote. If the problem is that some folks don&#39;t have access to an ID, make a damn compromise with the Republicans that would fund a massive &quot;IDs for all Americans&quot; campaign in exchange for requiring IDs once the campaign has successfully completed. Win-freaking-win. Anyway, people need IDs for other things. Why is it acceptable to oppose voting ID requirements because of this problem, but then never address the problem itself? Let&#39;s get everyone an ID, and end this stupid debate one and for all. - delugetheory</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11. Interesting.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m for merit based immigration as well, and this one I think it&#39;s the most important one for me, as an immigrant I feel we should actually integrate to the society where we move to, let&#39;s bring our food and some culture but leave the s***** ideas what made us leave our s***** countries behind and embrace the society that&#39;s allowed us to thrive. - iwbia123</p> </blockquote><h2>12. Now here&#39;s someone on the opposite end for good measure:</h2><blockquote> <p>Well I&rsquo;m conservative so I&rsquo;ll give you my most liberal opinion: health care should be a right, not for profit, and never drive someone into debt or bankruptcy. Because it&rsquo;s what Jesus would do. - stillwaters23</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

12 people who consider themselves liberal share their most conservative opinions.

The political climate in America currently feels more divided than ever. But is it possible that we all have more in common than we think?A recent Reddit thread asked, &quot;If you are liberal, what is your most conservative opinion?&quot; The answers prove that most people really aren&#39;t 100% one way or the other.1. This guy&#39;s sick of hearing about everyone&#39;s bedroom proclivities. Its perfectly ok for sex to be a private thing. I&#39;m sex positive, I want proper sex education but the trend of sexualising EVERYTHING and being out there and explicit about what and how you like to f*** could be toned down. - Harvey__Denture 2. Sounds like you&#39;re talking about cable news specifically, but okay. That the US media system is complete garbage on literally all sides and every single news station propagates so much divisive bullshit for the express purpose of wasting everyone&rsquo;s time by fighting instead of dealing with issues. This is conservative only because a lot of fellow liberals seem to think CNN is somehow not just as guilty about this. - TheKingofHats007 3. If trade schools had more keg parties, I think this idea could take off. I think there should be more trade schools and apprenticeships. That probally would seem conserative to some people, but many smart people sometimes do not fit in well at college. - NearbyAct2360 4. Also, childcare is EXPENSIVE if you outsource it. I think the single income nuclear family (one parent works, other parent does house stuff/raises 1-3 kids) is an ideal model and it&rsquo;s a tragedy that most people in the modern era can&rsquo;t afford it, not a success that most adults work now. (The liberal part of this opinion of course is that I see no reason the &ldquo;provider&rdquo; and &ldquo;caretaker&rdquo; roles should be gendered.) - nblackhand 5. How has our system gotten this so wrong? Some criminals can not be rehabilitated. They should stay in prison permanently. Also that certain crimes need much harsher sentences. Please be aware I live in New Zealand not America. People don&rsquo;t go to jail here for 99 years for having some drugs. - KiwiChefnz 6. This is a spicy take. As a gay man, I wish LGBT people weren&#39;t treated as this special unique thing. Seeing rainbows and advertisements everywhere dedicated to people born like me has never made me feel normal. As a young child questioning myself, seeing all the pandering made me feel scared about being something &quot;different&quot; from my peers, even when it wasn&#39;t homophobic or biased (of course this is just my personal view). Like there&#39;s nothing about being born gay or trans that requires the endless media and virtue signaling.   Gay Pride used to be about spreading awareness of discrimination and bigotry, and standing up for our rights. Now it&#39;s a giant pat-me-on-the-back-cuz-im-gay parade, fueled by corporations that often earn millions from countries that genuinely see us as inhuman.   We don&#39;t need another Gay Pride in New York or LA, we need to reach the many small communities in the US where LGBT kids live in paranoia because they have no comrades or allies. We should erase this idea that your child is put into a social category different from you because of who they like or how they act. - armani_vibes 7. Does ANYONE think cancel culture is a good idea at this point? Voted Democrat since 2000 when I turned voting age. Left-wing witch hunts and cancel culture are weakening the party and more important things like environmental issues and may be turning off centrist voters. Bonus f***ery: Latinx is the biggest piece of linguistic colonialism masquerading as wokeness there is. I know ZERO Latinos and/or Spanish speakers that agree with it. A la chingada con esa mierdA - GMane2G 8. Nuclear energy is surprisingly clean. I don&#39;t know if this is necessarily conservative, but I&#39;m somewhat pro nuclear energy. I think harnessing nuclear energy could help slow the speed of climate change. It&#39;s obviously not great since it still produces terrible waste, but I don&#39;t think it&#39;s as bad as fossil fuels and there&#39;s a lot of room for growth and improvement in nuclear energy. Eco nuts who think we can solve everything with only wind and solar power aren&#39;t being realistic. - squawk_kwauqs 9. The amount of luxury apartments in New York City with zero people living there... I don&#39;t think people should be able to buy property in the U.S. unless they live here. It would be fine if they live here even part of the year. But foreigners and companies buying residential property as investments price so many people out of the market. - trekbette 10. Because a national ID system would infringe on people&#39;s right to... I don&#39;t know, not have an ID? It&#39;s not that crazy to want to require ID to vote. If the problem is that some folks don&#39;t have access to an ID, make a damn compromise with the Republicans that would fund a massive &quot;IDs for all Americans&quot; campaign in exchange for requiring IDs once the campaign has successfully completed. Win-freaking-win. Anyway, people need IDs for other things. Why is it acceptable to oppose voting ID requirements because of this problem, but then never address the problem itself? Let&#39;s get everyone an ID, and end this stupid debate one and for all. - delugetheory 11. Interesting. I&#39;m for merit based immigration as well, and this one I think it&#39;s the most important one for me, as an immigrant I feel we should actually integrate to the society where we move to, let&#39;s bring our food and some culture but leave the s***** ideas what made us leave our s***** countries behind and embrace the society that&#39;s allowed us to thrive. - iwbia123 12. Now here&#39;s someone on the opposite end for good measure: Well I&rsquo;m conservative so I&rsquo;ll give you my most liberal opinion: health care should be a right, not for profit, and never drive someone into debt or bankruptcy. Because it&rsquo;s what Jesus would do. - stillwaters23 

The political climate in America currently feels more divided than ever. But is it possible that we all have more in common than we think?  A recent Reddit thread asked, &quot;If you are liberal, what is your most conservative...

12 people who consider themselves liberal share their most conservative opinions.

1. This guy's sick of hearing about everyone's bedroom proclivities.

2. Sounds like you're talking about cable news specifically, but okay.