Episode 16 - Let's Get Down to the Core Values and Root Issues

If we are ever to have a civil discourse in our country, we need to cut through all the emotion and finger-pointing and look at the root issues … the core values. Where are they the same and where they are different between the right and the left? If you’ve ever wanted to understand your friends and family on the left or wished you could cut through all the drama to discuss what really matters, this episode of Front Porch Sense is for you.

I posted the following to Facebook today and was given some interesting insights from my left-leaning friends:

I’m trying to pinpoint the underlying belief systems of the left. If you are more left leaning, how aligned are you with this statement?:
People should be loving and play nice and everyone should have their needs met. Suffering should be eliminated in a civil society. It’s okay to use government to make everyone play nice and it’s proper to redistribute money and resources from those with surpluses and give it to those who are lacking or suffering. That is a primary function of government to decide who has too much and who doesn’t have enough and what suffering is and to make that redistribution happen.

This episode is my synopsis of what I discovered and how we might be able to have an intelligent conversation with those with opposing views.

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